It gets easier, once you start doing the work. Coming out of the Dark. What’s this “Dark” I speak of? It’s your karma. Karma, as a human experience, is not personal. At all. All of your suffering and challenges are not personal. There are billions of people going through the same types of experiences. Sure, yours are unique because your own karmic accumulation is unique. Impersonal and yet unique. Karma itself is pretty cool. I would even say karma is graceful and elegant, in that whatever you reject or posture with, is stored in your subconscious. Like a running total of sorts. What is actually your karma, was decided by … you. Maybe not consciously in the moment. But it was you that determined what your karmic composition would be. Just as I, as a child, instilled an avoidance behavior of feeling my anger. Everything I was avoiding was pushed,…
You Decide It All You are the sole creator of your experience OK. So no. You, yourself, can’t put another three or four suns in the sky. OK, so no, you can’t add another dozen planets to the solar system. So no, you don’t decide it all. Not from the collective perspective. But, absolutely, you do decide it all when it comes to how you experience your “reality.” Gravity is impersonal. The mechanics of karma are impersonal. The mechanics of emotions are impersonal. The cycle of day and night are impersonal. Time is impersonal, etc. You, it is you, that decides how you experience these things. There is no built-in experience of “reality.” If there were, we would all experience everything the exact same way. It is truly a blessing that we decide it all. Earlier this year I spent seven weeks in the hospital. Five surgeries. Extreme pain for…
