My Look Into Karma
I was recently talking to a friend of mine about karma and he asked me what I felt karma was and how it fitted in with my Zen practice…
I see karma as something that’s constantly unfolding with the way I think, and my karma whatever opinions are formulated as a result of that thinking. This is very apparent when I am sitting in zazen, aspiring to still the mind so completely that there are no thoughts entering my mind and I am just totally linked with my life force, that is physically represented by my breathing as I inhale and exhale.
As intruding thoughts enter my mind I am creating more karma. I see each and every thought as a seed that will germinate to attract into my consciousness, an effect. Whatever my mind thinks, trivial or not, will become my karma. At present, like most other people on this earthly plane, my karma is to resolve my karma thus freeing my mind of that karma. It is through zazen I do this. Others interested in resolving karma may do it with their own preferred type of meditation, but all paths will eventually lead to ultimate enlightenment.
So the seeds that I sow now whilst stilling the mind in my meditation, will eventually become like a tree growing ever stronger in the light of dawning consciousness, until the day comes when I will be “karma-less”.
