The word karma is part of everyone’s vocabulary nowadays, even of those who have no interest in spirituality – but people on the spiritual path are especially concerned about it.
– Why is this shit happening to me? Do I have a bad karma?
– Me and my wife fight all the time. It must be some bad karma carried over from past lives.
– That car accident – I knew it was my karma!
Interestingly, these people are probably right – it is karma. Releasing bad karma is indeed very important, but what’s even more important is understanding what karma is. What’s its cause? How did it come to be so deeply rooted in our psyche? When speaking of karma, it’s important to remember that it’s a major mind construct, self-generated to enhance the experience of separation. When seen from this perspective, it’s apparent that we ourselves are both the creator of the problem and the key to its solution. Karma along with other mind constructs should not be taken lightly. These constructs form reality as we know it; there’s no way to make life better without releasing them – but only seeing them for what they are, a self-generated experience, can provide a key for letting them go.