The 12 Laws of Karma (that will change your life)

[rgray222]

What is Karma?
Karma is the Sanskrit word for action. It is equivalent to Newton's law of ‘every action must have a reaction’. When we think, speak or act we initiate a force that will react accordingly. This returning force maybe modified, changed or suspended, but most people will not be able eradicate it.

The Law of Karma is the Buddhist and Hindu version of the Golden Rule, basically, that what you do to others will return and be done to you. It’s stated in similar terms in almost every religion in the world.

This law of cause and effect is not punishment, but is wholly for the sake of education or learning. A person may not escape the consequences of his actions, but he will suffer only if he himself has made the conditions ripe for his suffering. Ignorance of the law is no excuse whether the laws are man-made or universal. To stop being afraid and to start being empowered in the worlds of karma and reincarnation, here is what you need to know about karmic laws.

1: LAW OF NEUTRALITY
Just as the “Law of Gravity” always works to pull things toward the Earth, these “Laws of Karma” apply to all equally, no exceptions. The universe is neutral: there are no favorite ones, there are no cursed ones, there are only divine beings created the Creator and all these divine beings are loved by Creator equally, deeply, and completely.

2: LAW OF AGREEMENT
The most terrible truth that anyone will ever learn while they are on Earth is… that they agreed to come here and to experience all that has, is, and will happen to them. The universe operates under this simple rule: all that happens is by prior agreement based on karmic justice between all the parties involved to balance past karma.

3: LAW OF LESSONS
We reincarnate to learn what is and is not like love. In the worlds of duality, we learn from experiencing polar opposites: “good-bad”, “problem-solution”, etc until we evolve into divine love, joy, and awareness. We walk the divine circle – where there is no saint without a past and no sinner without a future – until we learn our lessons.

4: LAW OF CAUSE & EFFECT
What you have done unto others in past lives or in this one (cause), weaves the karmic agreement of your present and future (effect). Consciously acting from loving kindness to yourself and others instantly reweaves the present and future karmic agreements into greater pathways of empowerment and unfoldment.

5: LAW OF BALANCE
The point of learning lessons is to achieve balance. Imbalances drive your personal cycle of reincarnation. “What you bring hate to, you reincarnate to” is how balance is achieved. For you can only truly understand a thing when you become that thing and cease to judge it, cherish unloving opinions, or harbor unrealistic expectations about it.

6: LAW OF ATTRACTION
Your consistently repeated thoughts packed with your consistently felt emotions become magnetized and attract similar thoughts packed with emotions to manifest your desires into reality. Whatever thoughts and emotions you focus on the most – with the most intensity and the most time – whether intentionally or unintentionally, becomes your belief-karma. The more you invest in them with your focus, the stronger they become. Your belief-karma generates your thoughts, forms your attitudes, guides your actions, and creates your results.

7: LAW OF CONNECTION
You connect with the people, opportunities, and events necessary to manifest your desires if you allow, believe, and expect it will happen for you. Allowing means you open yourself to let manifestation flow to you by believing what you need to manifest your desires will come to you and by expecting if-when you take consistent and appropriate actions your desires will manifest into reality as you have asked.

8: LAW OF EXPANSION
Since everything in the universe is energy, the universe is always expanding from lower to higher vibrational states. Change and growth are inevitable because energy is always expanding. The universe expands through chaos, reorganization, and order in an endless cycle of change and growth to create continuous improvement.

9: LAW OF UNFOLDMENT
Your internal map of reality is always changing to reflect your personal state of learning and growth. Your map of reality is always being refined into greater levels of truth as your consciousness unfolds. Unfoldment is a gradual process so that you can learn life lessons at your own pace as you reincarnate through time.

10: LAW OF EMPOWERMENT
If you “let whatever happens be ok”, you are accepting the “default” pattern of karma. Empowerment comes from a conscious decision to take control of karma by accepting absolute and total responsibility for your life and by always consciously acting with loving kindness.

11: LAW OF ALL POSSIBILITIES
There is no end to the joy you can experience or to what you can create. For all the power to get what you want comes from within you. Every moment brings with it new possibilities and opportunities for action. Whatever you can dream, you can do, be, or have in the universe of all possibilities… this is your birthright as a divine being.

12: LAW OF LOVE
Karma begins and ends with love. Karma was created to propel you as Soul on a personal journey of reincarnation through the universe. Karma ends when you have perfected yourself in your ability to love unconditionally. The sole purpose of karma and reincarnation is to bring us all to a state of divine love, joy, and awareness.


Several sources
Primary Source (http://blissreturned.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/karma-the-12-laws-of-karma/)

[Mulder]

I really like these 12 laws of Karma - I've been studying Buddhism lately and this religion seems to have many different meanings of the same terms. For example, I've read Karma to be "negative" - a "punishment" for past life "sins" (which explains why children are born with handicaps). I personally like to view Karma positively - along these 12 laws.

[rgray222]

I really like these 12 laws of Karma - I've been studying Buddhism lately and this religion seems to have many different meanings of the same terms. For example, I've read Karma to be "negative" - a "punishment" for past life "sins" (which explains why children are born with handicaps). I personally like to view Karma positively - along these 12 laws.

If you only get the destiny that you design, what you design is pretty important.

Right? You probably don’t want to screw that up. If there is a list of things to not flub, “destiny creation” has to be high up on that list.

You start by believing that you matter. That you matter and what you do matters.

By believing that what you do now changes the possibilities for the future.

It’s a mindset. (An “edgy” mindset)

If you:
Choose to be positive when things are scary…
Fight to win even when you just got the wind knocked out of you…
Be honest even when it means you get embarrassed…
Take the time to learn new skills, new talents, new ideas when it’s easy to just “be you”…
Invest in personal inspiration instead of letting anxiety drive your decisions…

Eventually leads you to:
Outrageously creative solutions that no one else sees.
Win (not money or fame but life) more often than anyone else in the world.
Trust yourself when no one else thinks you can do it.
Be more flexible, transparent, and personal regardless of what people think
Realize your dreams — when you would have ordinarily given up.

A small for instance; Telling the truth just 1 more time a day means you have 300+ more ways a year to trust yourself…
Each small positive step you take in your life begins to accumulate into a much larger karmic account which is the aggregate sum of your life.

The key is that you must take the action to put yourself in a positive place, if you are suffering, you have created that environment and you must change to get a positive reaction (only you hold the power to change your destiny).

All of us are dealing with karma every minute of our lives, understanding the basics and choosing to embrace it gives us a great advantage (in being positive and happy) in this life and the next!

[sdv]

Thanks for this thread.

However, I think that these 12 laws are distilled from information that has been misinterpreted and thus becomes misinformation. This happens by complex information being simplified (either with or without understanding) and then passed on, and laws being changed in subtle ways by each retelling (just like memory, which changes with every remembering, and so the past and present and future change). I have not found the original source of these beliefs and thus have not been able to find how and why they have been dumbed down and reproduced as misinformation.

To say that we chose all our experiences before we incarnated, that every experience is a lesson, is to ignore that we are interconnected and thus are always sabotaged and held back by what we are experiencing in the collective experiences (and one-on-one interactions), beliefs and choices, and thus is to misunderstand the matrix. By accepting this matrix as codified in these beliefs is to reinforce and support the suffering and denial of our potential. (When you take on a traumatised dog from the pound do you continue to beat it so that it will learn the lesson it chose or do you heal it with love and eradicate those who will inflict such suffering; do you heal a baby that has been raped by removing from society those who do this to babies or do you heal the baby with the belief that it chose this horror and so it is a sacrifice for some greater good?)

We, as a collective, spend so much money in the weapons and systems that cause destruction on every level (wars, suppression of human rights for whatever reason and so on), and on politics and control and power games. We spend comparatively little on preserving our planet for sustainability and in colonising and making habitable worlds beyond Earth (after all this time we are so deficient in funding and innovation that we do not have bases on Moon and Mars).

As humans we are very primitive and ill-informed in our beliefs (we recycle all the patterns of destruction and suffering and abuse), but we will never break out of this prison unless we question beliefs, such as 'we chose freely the lessons we learn' and be the creators we truly are in breaking those cycles of suffering and pain (sold to us as lessons) and reach beyond Earth and embrace living on other planets and travelling beyond our solar system and galaxy.

What do you think and believe and experience and want?

:peace::peace::peace:

[Mulder]

Thanks for this thread....
We, as a collective, spend so much money in the weapons and systems that cause destruction on every level (wars, suppression of human rights for whatever reason and so on), and on politics and control and power games. We spend comparatively little on preserving our planet for sustainability and in colonising and making habitable worlds beyond Earth (after all this time we are so deficient in funding and innovation that we do not have bases on Moon and Mars).

As humans we are very primitive and ill-informed in our beliefs (we recycle all the patterns of destruction and suffering and abuse), but we will never break out of this prison unless we question beliefs, such as 'we chose freely the lessons we learn' and be the creators we truly are in breaking those cycles of suffering and pain (sold to us as lessons) and reach beyond Earth and embrace living on other planets and travelling beyond our solar system and galaxy.

What do you think and believe and experience and want?

:peace::peace::peace:

This is the paradox for me - I choose love and life, but if most people don't care or choose to follow hate and darkness - then the world will not improve and will have more wars and hate.
For example, I could be choosing life and love aboard the train to Auschwitz, but I'm still going to be gassed and killed. Maybe it would have been better to try to kill the guards or break out of the train instead of being peaceful.
Maybe it will be better for me in the after-life since I was loving, but we should make this life as best as we can.

[karamba]

Thank you very much for sharing that! Love and Light!:grouphug::grouphug::dance3::victory::yes4:

[Anchor]

I don't even know where to start.

I think it may be best not to start :)

It seems to me that most of these are not "Laws", if anything they are principles. If you read "Law of" as "Principle of" you get closer to a general peripheral new-agey explanation of things related to the central theme which is in the linked article but not quoted in the OP:


In the East, the law reads (in translation):

“For every event that occurs, another event will follow that was caused by the first, and the second event will be pleasant or unpleasant due to and indirect relation to its cause”

The belief teaches that the person who takes action is responsible for that action, if not in this lifetime, then in future lives. In effect, what you did in your past lives comes forward to your present life and determines the events you experience now.

Pretty simple, and definitely something I can agree with.

All those people that read these 12 "laws" said they liked them - and appreciated reading them, can you please explain what it is about them that is so nice (I think I may have missed something).

[rgray222]

All those people that read these 12 "laws" said they liked them - and appreciated reading them, can you please explain what it is about them that is so nice (I think I may have missed something).

Hi Anchor
I will try to explain but not sure if you like the laws (principles), don't like them or that you are simply ambivalent towards them. Some clarity would help when trying to respond.

I think people like the 12 laws of karma because each one is grounded in common sense. I don't believe that they are even remotely "new-agey". These laws or principles have been around for a very long time. Long before religion attempted to tell people how to behave, people got it on their own. When man first discovered fire, he put his hand in and immediately understood there were consequences for his actions.

I can't speak for why others like these laws or principles (or don't) I can only speak as to why I find them helpful.

Sometimes we get caught up blaming others for the predicaments we find ourselves in. We blame governments, wives, husband, elites, powers that be, it really makes no difference who we blame. Understanding Karma or at least thinking about it brings us back to understanding that we put ourselves in whatever predicament we find ourselves in. There is no one to blame but yourself.

Many people look for their happiness outside of themselves, government, spouse, job, money etc. Happiness comes from within not from other people or things. People use the phrase "happiness comes from within" way too much and way too freely without really ever taking the time to understand it. That said when you really think about it nothing could be more true,

I like Karmic law because it reminds me that I am creating my own destiny and happiness (or lack of) every day. Everything action I engage in has a consequence and the more I put that in the front of my mind the better my life is! Creating my destiny is not a gig I want to screw up!

Hope this helps to answer your question.

[CD7]

Started by rgray222, 22nd September 2013 23:22


I don't know about the 12 laws of karma but there seems to be something with 22 ...:)

[Anchor]

Sometimes we get caught up blaming others for the predicaments we find ourselves in. We blame governments, wives, husband, elites, powers that be, it really makes no difference who we blame. Understanding Karma or at least thinking about it brings us back to understanding that we put ourselves in whatever predicament we find ourselves in. There is no one to blame but yourself.

I totally agree with this, but you have stated it rather more eloquently and succinctly than the 12 laws!

I think needless complexity gets my hackles up :)


Many people look for their happiness outside of themselves, government, spouse, job, money etc. Happiness comes from within not from other people or things. People use the phrase "happiness comes from within" way too much and way too freely without really ever taking the time to understand it. That said when you really think about it nothing could be more true,

This is also true and I like your words (and the energy they convey!)


I like Karmic law because it reminds me that I am creating my own destiny and happiness (or lack of) every day. Everything action I engage in has a consequence and the more I put that in the front of my mind the better my life is! Creating my destiny is not a gig I want to screw up!

Agree. I think you have a great understanding of the principle of Karma. It matches my own.


Hope this helps to answer your question.

Partially ;)

I know that truth is a pathless land and that we wont all see things the same way. I regard the 12 laws as presented here as grandiose, wordy and overly complicated; that can be confusing and ambiguous, a net of feel good love and light in the new age tradition that seeks out. I wonder at the purity of motive - with what I see as a potential to ensnare and confuse the unwary.

They are presented as a fait-a-complit - "the answer".

It is that impression that is mine (and may of course therefore be wrong!) that triggers my objections.

They do not appear to me to be grounded in any of the ancient wisdoms. They appear to pretend to be - if they are grounded in Buddhism for example then why not quote a source? I rather suspect that instead they are the product of modern new age internet - but there is no reason at all that this cannot be as valid as anything else - they got me thinking! They prompted a great post from you (which I do appreciate).

Law?

Well common sense, as you put it, is not LAW.

Mankind in his lower incarnate form does not write the laws of physics or the laws of nature.

The law written by man usually has a goal of manipulation and control - for the greater good maybe, but often otherwise.

Law's that we know are a system of rules set out by the governors of the governed. Law is usually enforceable and are by consent of the governed. We may codify laws of nature by observation, experimentation and the "scientific method" but these often get broken in time as we test the limits of our knowledge of the illusion we know as reality and the mechanics of the whole thing.

This may sound pedantic, and a bit hypocritical, because I am quite happy to talk about the "law of attraction" as if it were some kind of law of nature, but the one I know is nothing like what is written in the OP - even though I broadly concur with the principles that the text there sets out.

The reason I don't like the twist in calling these laws, as if they are edicts from on high, is quite simply it triggers a reactionary response from the passive anarchist in me - a pure anarchist who seeks to just be without law - this is of course my problem.

Thanks very much provoking more thought :)

And now, for a pithy but relevant sign-off....

All is one.

A..

[rgray222]

Hi Mulder

This is the paradox for me - I choose love and life, but if most people don't care or choose to follow hate and darkness - then the world will not improve and will have more wars and hate.
For example, I could be choosing life and love aboard the train to Auschwitz, but I'm still going to be gassed and killed. Maybe it would have been better to try to kill the guards or break out of the train instead of being peaceful.
Maybe it will be better for me in the after-life since I was loving, but we should make this life as best as we can.

This is a paradox but maybe not the paradox that you think. The vast majority of people on this planet choose love and life but we have been conditioned to focus on the negative. By choosing to focus on the negative we think the entire world is at war, it's not. We think that man is evil and corrupt, he/she is not. We think that man is destroying the planet he/she is not. Of course there are people and leaders engaging in such negative destructive behavior but they are in the minority and not by a little but by a lot.

Infants are not born negative, for the most part they are born happy and without prejudice or hatred. We have been conditioned to focus on the negative. In the modern world the media should get a great deal of blame but they are not entirely at fault.

My point here is that the vast majority of the people currently living on this planet are kind, loving souls. Don't fall into the trap of thinking that world is a horrible place. If you believe that the world is negative that is what you will ultimately bring into your life.

We cannot ignore the negative things happening around us everyday, but we do need to know that there are many more positive things happening on this planet every minute of every day. They don't make the media often, friends and family will focus on the negative but that is a false premise. Don't get caught in the negative vortex it is hard to climb out of!

The laws of the universe and karma clearly show us the way if we are smart enough to pay attention and give them some serious thought.


For example, I could be choosing life and love aboard the train to Auschwitz, but I'm still going to be gassed and killed. Maybe it would have been better to try to kill the guards or break out of the train instead of being peaceful.

The example you mention above is extremely interesting, one I have given a lot of thought to and it is important. I will simply say that we all have the right and obligation to survive and leave it at that.

[sdv]

Thanks for this thread....
We, as a collective, spend so much money in the weapons and systems that cause destruction on every level (wars, suppression of human rights for whatever reason and so on), and on politics and control and power games. We spend comparatively little on preserving our planet for sustainability and in colonising and making habitable worlds beyond Earth (after all this time we are so deficient in funding and innovation that we do not have bases on Moon and Mars).

As humans we are very primitive and ill-informed in our beliefs (we recycle all the patterns of destruction and suffering and abuse), but we will never break out of this prison unless we question beliefs, such as 'we chose freely the lessons we learn' and be the creators we truly are in breaking those cycles of suffering and pain (sold to us as lessons) and reach beyond Earth and embrace living on other planets and travelling beyond our solar system and galaxy.

What do you think and believe and experience and want?

:peace::peace::peace:

This is the paradox for me - I choose love and life, but if most people don't care or choose to follow hate and darkness - then the world will not improve and will have more wars and hate.
For example, I could be choosing life and love aboard the train to Auschwitz, but I'm still going to be gassed and killed. Maybe it would have been better to try to kill the guards or break out of the train instead of being peaceful.
Maybe it will be better for me in the after-life since I was loving, but we should make this life as best as we can.

I think that surrendering and accepting everything as karma (I deserve it or I asked for this as a lesson) is to not be the creative beings we are supposed to be.

[DarMar]

Karma is definition of something that doesn't exist. It is boundary wall that one person can build around him to stop his soul to experience vast sort of experiences.
Also idea is based around fear based manipulation.. If you do this, you will get that back.. and you got to be at care what you do, how you do. So i strongly suggest that thought sdv said:

I think that surrendering and accepting everything as karma (I deserve it or I asked for this as a lesson) is to not be the creative beings we are supposed to be.
is more actual than any one of that 12 nonsenses.

While you create you have power to destroy, while you can judge self, you can judge others.. see it's easy. YOU have ALL possibilities, not 12 of them ;) if you don't believe me, try it!!!
Also everyone has freedom to experience all of that or express any feeling he wants to.
No one ever judges him.
The only judge and karmic actor is one himself. If you thing you will get bad reaction from bad action, you will get it.
If you think you will get positive reaction from bad action is 100% possible and i proved it zilion of times. And no written book can make me think differently, simply because of a first hand experiences.
Rather than guessing difference in perspectives when those sacred books are written and now.
If in that different perspective we insert a bit of changing sacred writings with time, makes them not sacred but basically simple junk.

Only when one frees himself of countless limitations and laws
and truly experiences without limitation, he will know what i talk about.

You can not know what love is without pain, or what is peace without war.
simply you can not experience tied to laws.

Also experiencing things that one's mind think is best is not the same as closing programmed mind and let soul gather experiences all arround.
Programmed mind has boundaries and simply can't do that .

[xidaijena]

Like these laws, tks for sharing.;)