With free will, we can modify, to a certain extent the chain of karma that has been set in motion by the karma of the previous moment. That is what free will really is, the ability to alter the sequence of karmic fate.
Self-giving means that we have to understand the nature of giving. When most people give, they give expecting a return on their investment.
We have two choices in life: One is to fulfill ourselves. The other is to take the time and energy that we would utilize in fulfilling ourselves and use it to make others happy.
Eternity is selfless giving. Eternity sends forth all of the worlds, the very fabric of existence.
Those whose primary concern is to destroy others are at the lowest level of development. Those who are only interested in their own satisfaction are farther along. Those who both do things for their own satisfaction and the satisfaction of others are even father along. Then there are saints who just constantly live for the welfare of others.
The high-priests and priestesses of Atlantis had discovered many of the deepest secrets of the universe. They had come to understand all about reincarnation, karma, and the innermost workings of the Enlightenment Cycle.
If I used justice, you'd all be dead. The karma that you throw at me when you don't like me - if I just let it come back, you'd all be destroyed in no time.
I like extreme athletics, extreme meditation and extremely beautiful women. Perhaps I'm an extreme person, or it's simply my Karma. But I must tell you, as if you hadn't read about me in a newspaper or seen me on a magazine format television show, there are extreme risks involved with all three.
How do you become enlightened? I don't know: Luck, karma, skill, friends in high places, friends in low places.
Many spiritual teachers have done this. They have disbanded their whole community because everyone got angry. The karma, at a certain point, has to go back to the person; it's intensified and hurts them spiritually.
It's considered very, very bad karma, if I can cut to the chase, to take power from a teacher and not use it for something very positive.
I may discuss contemporary cinema, how to shop at a mall without losing energy, how to use the power of mind to increase career and academic success, the Zen of sports, reincarnation, karma, sex, the experience of "suchness" or a new book by Stephen King.
There are different pathways - be it Zen, tantra, karma yoga, or jnana yoga. Different ways have been devised to do the same thing for different types of people according to their temperament.
Finally, we see that there is no one and nothing but God.
It is much more likely that you will attain liberation if you want liberation for others, than just for yourself.
Feeling "comfortable" is the short path to annihilation.
Very often people give to others to control them and dominant them.
Selfless giving reminds us that there is an eternally present spirit in all of us, that when revealed, liberates us from both the transitory and the eternal - both of which ultimatly can be attachments.
If, when you give to someone you think you're better than they are because your practing selfless giving, you're not loving.
Christ didn't have to. Buddha didn't have to. They came back to teach. They came back to die, to suffer, when it was no longer necessary for them to do so.
When you practice selfless giving, you're in balance and harmony with everything.
Selfless giving is being nice and there are times we don't want to be.
The secret to enlightenment is kindness and selfless giving. Without that, it's just words, isn't it?
One day after many, many lifetimes, we get wise. We decide that the fun in life is to give.
If you are fortunate enough to meet such a being then you will really learn selfless giving. You'll see that every second, every moment of their awareness is directed towards others.
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