Trusting Life by Gina Lake

Author:Gina Lake
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: spiritual growth, spirituality, happiness, acceptance, enlightenment, trust, spiritual awakening, emotional healing, eckhart tolle, byron katie, learning to trust
Publisher: Gina Lake

The Law of Karma

Just as there are physical laws that govern the physical world, there are spiritual laws that govern us, as conscious co-creators of life. Like our physical laws, these spiritual laws are trustworthy because they are consistent and work reliably, although we might not be aware of their workings. They are also trustworthy because they teach love and take us Home to our true nature.

One of these laws is the law of karma. Karma is the Great Teacher. It teaches us what we need to learn. Life is a school, and we’re here to have experiences and learn from them. Above all, we’re here to learn to love. Karma teaches by virtue of our actions causing a reaction: We do something, and we get a response from life or from someone, although that response might not be immediate. That response provides feedback about our actions, and that feedback is the teaching.

A simple example of this is when we are kind, others are generally kind in return, and so our kindness is rewarded and reinforced. Even if others aren’t kind in return (because they’re free to choose to not be kind), being kind is its own reward. Being unkind works the same way: When we’re unkind, others generally respond unkindly, and our unkindness is not rewarded or reinforced. And, regardless of how others respond, being unkind doesn’t feel good (except maybe briefly to the ego), so behaving this way isn’t reinforced internally.

Whatever we put out in the world, tends to come back to us, although not necessarily right away. Whether feedback from others or from life about our actions is immediate or not, we receive feedback instantly internally: When we act in accordance with our true nature—with love—we feel good; when we don’t, we don’t feel good. This is how life teaches us love: It rewards us for love and doesn’t reward the opposite. So if life is rewarding loving behavior, what does that mean? This would seem to be evidence for a loving force behind life, a force that is guiding us toward love and away from whatever undermines love.

It’s easiest to see karma at work in our relationships because the feedback is often so immediate and obvious. But karma also delivers our major life lessons, and in those cases, the workings of karma are not so obvious. We might experience some difficulty or limitation and not realize that it’s a karmic lesson. If we’ve done something that goes against life, then sometime in this lifetime or another, we’ll meet with an experience designed to teach us whatever we need to learn so that we don’t continue that behavior.

Some karma, by necessity, teaches by withholding something pleasant or delivering something unpleasant. However, a lot of karma teaches in ways that don’t appear punitive at all. When life can teach something without presenting us with something difficult, it will. The purpose of karma is to teach, not to punish.

For instance, if someone abuses another, the abuser needs to learn love (most abusers were unloved as children).

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