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5. Karma is

[...] The basic idea of karma is not punishment. Karma presents the opportunity for development; to make use of opportunities that were not taken advantage of, to fill in gaps of ignorance, to enlarge understanding through experience, to do what should be done.

3. In Hinduism and Buddhism, karma is thought of as the total moral sum of an individual’s acts in any one life — thus determining the person’s fate or destiny in the next. [...] A “future” life, then, can affect a “past” one, so karma as it is usually considered does not apply.

Now karma does not operate in terms of cause and effect though it seems to you that it must. [...]

Nor does karma say anything about an eye for an eye, nor is there in karma any suggestion of punishment. Karma is merely in the physical plane, the result of personal development, and represents the maturing realization that we are all psychically and physically part of All There Is, and that when we wound, it is not another that we wound but ourselves.

[...] They may say that since an individual chose his or her problems in this life — deciding for instance to be born black, or poor, or both — that karma is being worked out; therefore such issues should not be adjusted through a change of law or custom. [...]

(See the 636th session in Chapter Nine for some material on karma, reincarnation, and Seth’s idea of “simultaneous” time.)

There is also a rather conventional stereotype version of karma that may follow such beliefs. [...]

Your religious ideas have often told you that deformities at birth were the result of the parents’ sins cast upon the children, or that another kind of punishment was involved in terms of “karma.” [...]

[...] And even if I forget the idea of guilt, am I bound to follow the rules of karma?” (See the 614th session in Chapter Two.)

[...] But in the terms used there is no karma to be paid off as punishment unless you believe that there are crimes for which you must pay (as indicated in the 614th session in Chapter Two).

Seth began by saying that Karma does not involve punishment. “Karma presents the opportunity for development. [...]

[...] What you call karma has meaning only in basic terms within your particular plane. [...]

[...] Karma can be worked out in many ways, and here again we return to Mark’s earlier male oriented, aggressive personality. [...]

“Karma presents the opportunity for development. [...]

[...] His psychic energy has chosen this way, possibly, of establishing karma. [...]

[...] Why should nature punish anyone if it doesn’t punish anything? The realities of nirvana and karma are not ones that Jane and I want to create.

[...] This approach would very nicely eliminate having to deal with one’s “karma” this time around—should there really be a system of consciousness embodying that ancient concept. [...]

[...] (Jung himself thought the questions of reincarnation, and of karma [or, roughly, destiny or fate], to be “obscure” — he couldn’t be sure of the existence of such phenomena.) From Session 555 for October 21, 1970: “The anima and the animus … are highly charged psychically, and also appear in the dream state. [...]