Karma
and Reincarnation
Table
of Contents
Editor's
Introduction vii
Preface I
Introduction 3
| 1 |
Individual
Karma: Life and Death I 1 |
| 2 |
Karma:
A Definition 28 |
| 3 |
The Varieties
of Karma: Marital and Family Karma 40 |
| 4 |
The Varieties
of Karma: National, Racial and Geographic Karma 61 |
| 5 |
Towards
a Theory of Karma 85 |
| 6 |
Transcending
Karma 111 |
Conclusion
129
Afterword 130
Appendix
A: Questions about Karma and Reincarnation 137
Appendix B: Other Publications by Dr Hiroshi Motoyama 146
Index
147
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Marital
Karma: Varieties of Bonding
The
sexual bonding of two individuals who commit to each other as a couple,
usually in the form of marriage, is the prerequisite to birth and
therefore the foundation of family karma. Generally, it can occur
in five different ways:
| 1 |
Two beings
are linked together by the knots of their previous karmic relationship,
whether these knots be caused by attachment to their mutual
happiness or to their mutual suffering. |
| 2 |
Two beings
unite in the higher level of their individual spirits, in the
causal dimension, a level which always remains in an immaculate
condition. |
| 3 |
A unified
entity in a relatively high (divine) spiritual dimension splits
in two, manifests as a man and a woman on this earth, and the
two marry. |
| 4 |
Two beings
are temporarily bound together by materialistic, physical passion. |
| 5 |
Two beings
of deep religious faith are united through the intercession
of a Higher Power. |
The
fundamental principle of 'self-attachment' has two basic aspects.
The first of these is that the 'self' begins to believe that it is
all that exists of its being. The second aspect is that the 'self'
believes it is unique and creates the distinction 'that others are
different from self''. This is the state of consciousness that most
ordinary human beings function within, and is the level upon which
the most common type of marital bonding occurs.
As
soon as individuals begin to function from the position of 'self',
karma is produced. Good and evil, happiness and unhappiness, and a
myriad of other distinctions are born. Each of these distinctions
is created by the 'self', a 'self' that stumbles blindly onwards,
completely unaware of the increasing amount of karma that it is accumulating.
The 'self' mistakenly believes that it is acting freely under its
own volition, ignorant that the law of cause and effect is ceaselessly
working through it. Consciousness, entrapped by the 'self'', is unable
to attain self-awakening.
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