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(Prologue: I’ve got first-hand experience that a real understanding of the laws of karma can substantially change our lives for the better. I created this weblog to share information and personal experience with others. May it be beneficial!)

We do not have to believe in reincarnation to benefit from this post or weblog. We only have to agree that present volitional actions have consequences in the future. 

Prologue: Based on my weblog page called Actual face of karma,what would the life of someone who is the present (fictional) incarnation of Queen Tiye (mother of Akhenaten), Queen of Sparta (aka Helen of Troy), Queen Jezebel, Cleopatra, St. Teresa of Avila and Sigmund Freud actually look like? In other words, what is the fruition of the karma (past volitional actions) of this portrait gallery of six historical figures when certain causes and conditions meet and the seeds of their past virtuous and non virtuous action  ripen in the present? To try to answer this question, I use diary entries like the one below.

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I, Rainbow Desert Flower, enter these accounts of the last 40 years into my private diary. May it benefit all those who are trying to understand their own karmic package.

While it’s extremely helpful— indeed, necessary — to deconstruct the laws of karma, I started this weblog to demonstrate through real-life examples how karma actually works — manifests — in our present lives.

Here are some examples of the negative karma I had accumulated over many lifetimes through the ten unvirtuous actions that manifested in this present lifetime.

I went from

• being the extremely powerful mother of Akenaten, who plotted the death of of her grandchild Tutankamun in a past lifetime, to experiencing extremely negative karma with child for 22 years in this lifetime;
• taking away other women’s men for ego reasons in past lifetimes to no successful relationships for 22 years in this lifetime;
• being the richest woman in the world who abused her power in a past lifetime to financial poverty for 22 years in this lifetime;
• hatred towards my sister who had illegally seized the crown from our father in a past lifetime to severely unhappy relations with mother in this lifetime; and
  
• lying about one of my major theories in my last lifetime, to being slandered and deceived for 22 years in this lifetime.

In short, I went from abusing the power I had by virtue of the extremely high positions I held in previous lifetimes to being powerless for 22 years in this lifetime.

In that sense it has been the worst of lives.

Simultaneously, while the karmic s— — t was hitting the fan in this lifetime, I met enlightened, awake spiritual guides.

Learning about, inter alia [among other things]

• the  laws of karma — and how to cut through the habitual patterns that create and maintain that karma;
• how to tame my mind and cut through the confusion produced by ego through meditation; and
• the true nature of reality;

In that sense it has been the best of lives.

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It’s 06h15. I’m listening, as I do everyday, to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio One, and hear about the website that encourages people to sit at their computers and do nothing for two minutes. You cannot touch your mouse or keyboard. You get a Pass or Fail grade.

It is almost impossible to meet the challenge. We tend to go AWOL. Even for two minutes!

We’ve neglected mental fitness. We’ve been brought up on a diet of action, doing, going. We’ll get physically fit. But we don’t make time to practice fitness for the mind where we could actually meet our own minds directly and reclaim them.

Try the challenge! When you get a Pass grade, I’ll meet you here.

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Confined in the dark, narrow cage of our own making that we take for the whole universe, very few of us can even begin to imagine another dimension of mind. Patrul Rinpoche tells the story of an old frog who had lived all his life in a dank well. One day a frog from the sea paid him a visit.

“Where do you come from?” asked the frog in the well.
“From the great ocean,” he replied.
“How big is your ocean?”
“It’s gigantic.”
“You mean about a quarter of the size of my well here?”
“Bigger.”
“Bigger? You mean half as big?”
“No, even bigger.”
“Is it . . . as big as this well?”
“There’s no comparison.”
“That’s impossible! I’ve got to see this for myself.”

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It is now January 01, 2011. Many of us will have made or will be in the process of making New Year’s resolutions!

• to listen to others rather than trying to dominate the conversation
• to be kinder, less aggressive
• to get fit
• to spend more time with family
• etc. etc. etc.

My New Year’s resolution is to NOT make any effort around “self-improvement.”

Why?

As long as you’re wanting to be thinner, smarter, more enlightened, less uptight, or whatever it might be , somehow you’re always going to be approaching your problem with the very same logic that created it to begin with: you’re not good enough. That’s why the habitual pattern never unwinds itself when you’re trying to improve, because you go about it in exactly the same habitual style that caused all the pain to start. (source: Pema Chodron: Start Where You Are)

I want to unwind my habitual “self,” not improve it!

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