[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Changing the Flow of Karma

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

May 29, 2009

CHANGING THE FLOW OF KARMA

Although currently you have ended up with a very bad situation, you 
can suddenly change the karmic flow with a tremendous, quite sudden 
and forceful effort. You may have ended up in a tremendous 
depression, but you are able to make a jump in your life and overcome 
that. You are able to change the flow of your particular lifestyle. 
You might be used to being very lazy and sloppy, but the sitting 
practice of meditation could tighten up your lifestyle so that 
suddenly you become a tidy, vigorous and uplifting person. There are 
second thoughts happening each time you act. There is hesitation, and 
from that hesitation or gap, you can go backward or forward. Changing 
the flow of karma happens in that gap. So the gap is very useful. It 
is in the gap that you give birth to a new life.

 From Chapter Five, "Perpetually Re-creating Suffering," in THE TRUTH 
OF SUFFERING AND THE PATH OF LIBERATION, page 56.

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