Table of contents hide 1 Karma is all action 1.1 Nothing escapes the law 1.2 Law of sequence 1.3 The consequences of action 2 Thoughts, feelings and acts have consequences 2.1 Thought as cause 2.2 Desire as cause 2.3 Actions as causes 2.4 Each force operates on its own level 3 Karma as character development 3.1 Dice does not fall by chance 3.1.1 We attract what we send 3.1.2 Unconscious happiness brings unhappiness 3.2 Responsibility 3.2.1 Reasons 3.2.2 Responsible for what we don't want 3.2.3 Stop the ball 4 Karma and philosophy 4.1 Stoic philosophy 4.2 Predestination 4.3 The key to good destiny 4.4 The mediator saved 5 Karma and reincarnation 5.1 Karma and character development 6 Biography

In this work we will look for the relationship between karma and character development. At the end of the article it will be understood that the development of character is the result of our actions and the karma that forces us to gain experience.

Karma is all action

Karma is a word that comes from a Sanskrit term that means Action. We are unaware of the relationships between the past and the future and instead of trying to understand the causes of our lives, we prefer to believe that chance, luck and miracles are the engines of our lives.

We reach the extreme of accepting that the action and reaction refer only to the physical plane, but we consider that our emotions are only energies that as long as we do not express them, affect us only.

We also consider thoughts as individual and without influence in the world as long as we do not express them. We still go further by believing that there is no relationship between moral development and social life as long as it does not become a social action.

We believe that there is a private world of each individual that has no impact, either on our own life or that of others.

Nothing escapes the law

However, karma is a law that implies being responsible for all actions. Thought is action. Emotions are actions and of course our physical actions are actions.

Although we often use the word karma, for example by saying ese is my karma, in reality we rarely take responsibility for our lives . This occurs even in people linked to esoteric schools.

It is very hard to accept that everything we are is a consequence of our previous thoughts, words and deeds. It is more comfortable to blame circumstances or others.

However, nothing escapes the law of consequence, also called the law of sequence because it manifests as continuity.

Sequence law

Sequence law is another way of seeing karma. There is continuity between the action and its consequences, but these are not seen immediately because they are part of a process.

When we sow a seed, we don't expect the flowers to come out right away, we know that the flowers are at the end of a long process and that the fruits will come later.

Similarly when we start a new career in college, we don't expect to be specialists right away. We know that it is a process that demands daily effort. We know that if we continue, despite all the frustrations, one day we will be excellent in the area in which we specialize.

This is also valid for vices. If we start smoking or drinking or meeting with people we consider vicious, one day we will be sharing their vices without feeling repulsion . More serious, we will feel so much attraction to that vice that we will not resist.

This leads us to refer to the issue of joining groups that are not present, but that participate in our interests.

When we decide to learn a language, we are linking to those who speak and promote that language. Which is very positive.

Although we can also link to negative forces, such as when we started buying lottery games. In this case we are subconsciously relating to people who do the same. That is, with people in need, or with greedy people. Then we find ourselves thinking like them and consider that any amount we earn will be insufficient. We will be relating to the world of need.

The consequences of the action

We must understand that thinking, feeling and acting are forms of action that can work in harmony or disharmony . We can say that we are what we think, what we feel and what we do, but we are also defining what we are going to become.

This leads us to ask not only who am I ?, but also who do I want to be? I am the result of everything I have done in the past, but I am also building who I will be in the future.

We can affirm that the effects are in the causes, in the same way that a cloth that has fallen in the swamp, keeps the cause to be muddy. A seed maintains the cause, which is the tree where it came from and that cause will allow it to develop a new tree.

Centuries ago it was believed impossible to demonstrate paternity, today it is evident that the son carries the father's DNA. In the same way we can affirm that we have the paternity of all our acts and that all the consequences bear our seal.

Thoughts, feelings and acts have consequences

Annie Besant points out that the consequences of thoughts, feelings and acts are different. The original cause is always a thought. Thoughts have the greatest weight in our spirit. The final causes are in the acts. These have weight in the natural and social life, but little in the spiritual world.

For example, if a person trying to harm someone does him good. The one who receives the good will pay it back. On the social level, the actor is entitled to a benefit for having done good. However, that same person has hurt himself in the world of soul and spirit because his intention was evil .

Similarly, a driver who unintentionally crashes into another car is required to pay damages. If he does not pay them, his character deteriorates since his intention, which was initially innocent, is now immoral. If he pays it, in addition to earning a friend, he develops his moral power.

Many times we believe that the origin of our actions is in the emotions or actions induced by other people.

Emotions and actions are the product of thoughts elaborated before in this or in a previous life. In addition, just as thought influences emotions, likewise emotions influence our thoughts.

That is, at first the thought gave rise to certain emotions and from that moment, those emotions will influence our thoughts.

We have a high development of our physical body and our five senses, however we cannot say the same of our emotions.

Rudolf Steiner points out that it is a mistake to say that we have an emotional body, and argues it by pointing out that our emotions are very poorly developed. Only in a long process can humanity have an emotional organization.

This leads us to affirm that much of our karma originates from the lack of control and emotional structuring.

We have a high development of our physical body and our five senses, however we cannot say the same of our emotions.

Thought as a cause

Every thought modifies the mental body . The mental faculties are a consequence of what we think of previous lives.

Because thoughts are mixed with desires, they have emotional substance. These are emotional-mental images.

Thoughts have a life of their own and influence those around us, but they keep in touch with their creator. Thus karmic bonds are created between who creates the thoughts and those who are influenced by them.

All power is created by some man who dedicated himself to persistently repeating his thoughts.

Desire as a cause

Desires determine the construction of the physical body in the next incarnation. Beastly and intemperate desires cause nervous disorders . Desires take man to the place where he can satisfy his desires, this is one of the causes of the next place of birth.

Desires also bind us to other human beings. This creates relationships of love and hate. In most men, desires are stronger than their thoughts and it is desires that create social relationships.

This explains that someone is under the control of another, without knowing the cause, since it can be in a previous life.

An example is when a thought of hatred reaches a criminal and he murders someone. The originator of the thought is linked to the criminal, although they have never been found to carry out the crime.

In most men, desires are stronger than their thoughts and it is desires that create social relationships.

Actions as causes

Actions have a greater effect on others, but little on inner life. This is because actions are effects of our thoughts and desires, that is, actions are the download of what we have already built. Karma is exhausted in action.

This is why Jesus Christ says that whoever has desired a woman has already sinned, that is, has already moved the forces to commit the act and these energies will not stop.

The subsequent influence of the action is due to the occasion to produce new thoughts, desires and emotions that will reinforce or transform the actions. Also the repetition of the actions produces habit.

The habit controls the Ego in the present incarnation, but not in the later one, since the habit dies with the body. However, thoughts and emotions remain.

The action produces causes in future lives due to the consequences in the lives of others, when we cause them happiness or misfortune. Also when we serve as an example. The good we do will produce wealth and the evil we do will produce misery.

Each force operates on its own plane

What is done on the physical plane has consequences on the physical plane regardless of the reason. A child will burn even if his intention is to appreciate the flame of the candle. A lion will fail even if his intention is to satisfy hunger, if his action does not correspond to the situation and the prey escapes him.

If different people distribute their assets to society, one for the ideal of justice, another for the desire for notoriety, another to justify what has been stolen. The good they do is the same and its consequences, on the physical level, will be the same. On the physical plane there are no differences.

If someone wants to do good, he gives his goods to people who will use him for his vices, the reason does not eliminate the social damage he has done.

For this reason it is insisted that the motive influences the character, but the social consequences of the same action performed by different people with different motives will have the same social consequence.

The intention is very important, but we must ensure that our actions have the results we expect. This is why it is said that hell is full of good intentions.

Karma as character development

When a researcher of the physical plane observes that in his experiments he does not get what he wants, he does not accuse fate, but knows that he has been wrong and that he does not yet understand the law behind the phenomenon. Try to understand where the error is and change its method. The better understanding of the laws of nature gives greater power.

Only when it is understood that karma responds to laws, is it able to lead to destiny. Then Karma does not scare us, but we know that we have created it by responding to laws we did not know, now our function is to discover those laws to make the destiny we want.

Only when it is understood that karma responds to laws, is it able to lead to destiny.

That is, we can now choose the causes that will create our future. This is research that lasts many lives. However, the important thing is to advance both in theoretical understanding and in practice in our daily lives.

We know that we have many weaknesses in our character. That it is not easy to change it. However, we must continue in that work on ourselves. Never stop studying, never stop learning.

Schopenhauer in some of his texts seems to say that the character is not changed, we were born with him and we will have him a lifetime. However elsewhere it says otherwise . That we must achieve superior moral development and even give some ideas on how to achieve it.

It is not really posing a contradiction. We could present it as follows. Most human beings do not consider life as an ascent, but as a survival. In this sense everyone works to survive, it will not change their character. To modify it, a conscious effort is necessary. There must be an address.

The above has an implication in our social life. We should not expect others to change. If someone is a criminal, it is very possible that he will remain. If someone is altruistic it is very possible that he continues with his high moral development. It is not the others that will change. If I want changes, it's me who has to change. If I change for the better, the world will be better.

The dice don't fall by chance

Scientists say "Natural evolution happens by chance." They consider that with this explanation, everything is already clear. What they are denying causes and effects. They will say yes, that they accept that there are causes and effects, but that life responds to those causes and effects by chance and that beings that react in an erroneous way disappear and those that do so correctly survive. But that survival happens randomly.

Faced with this position, Einstein said: "God does not play dice" which indicated that there was no chance. Although his phrase was not correct either, because he was accepting that the dice fall by chance, but nothing (not the dice) falls by chance. The fact that we do not know the causes does not imply that it is random.

Rational materialistic thinking criticizes the position that says that behind nature there is an intelligence, but when they explain something as due to chance, they are only changing the word God for Random.

Rational materialistic thinking criticizes the position that says that behind nature there is an intelligence, but when they explain something as due to chance, they are only changing the word God for Random.

Scientists do not realize that when they cannot explain something and resort to chance they are recognizing that there are aspects of the world that they cannot understand. Kant said that we can never know the essence of things, what he called "the thing itself." Many thinkers have concluded that life is meaningless and that we can never know the truth.

Many thinkers have concluded that life is meaningless and that we can never know the truth.

On the contrary, Schopenhauer maintained that we can know the essence of things, and it is our will. For him, the will is in all beings, although we can only recognize it in us. That will, according to him, manifests itself irrationally, but we, because we have it and feel it internally, have the ability to give it a direction by directing our motives towards altruistic ends.

On the contrary, Schopenhauer maintained that we can know the essence of things, and it is our will. For him, the will is in all beings, although we can only recognize it in us.

This leads us to recognize our responsibility. Things happen because we have created them or because we have allowed others to impose them on us. We have created our destiny without knowing it . If we are willing to meet and know what we want we can create our destiny consciously.

We attract what we send

To say that if we change for the better, the world will be better means that we attract what we send. This implies understanding that we are magnets, with their positive and negative or rather, emitter and receiver pole.

These energies are of three kinds: 1) mental energies, the causes here are called thoughts ; 2) emotional energies, here the causes are called desires ; 3) physical energy, with causes that are called actions . These energies have their effects on who emits them and on those in their environment.

Each force works on its own plane (mental, emotional, physical) and at the same time affects the lower plane.

The mental plane must control the emotional and this the physical.

Unconscious happiness brings unhappiness

Someone recently told me we were happy but we did not know it and I answered him but the abuses of that time, brought this consequence of which you are complaining . The person, now uncomfortable, added No, this is the fault of this government

Someone recently told me we were happy but we did not know it and I answered him but the abuses of that time, brought this consequence of which you are complaining . The person, now uncomfortable, added No, this is the fault of this government .

You don't want to accept that the past is the cause of the present . Many times we make a decision how to leave a job and then complain because right after the boss has participated, he offers a salary increase to his employees.

It is possible that our decision has worried the boss enough to improve the situation of his employees. But that is already the karma (good) of those employees. We have no reason to complain.

We must take responsibility for our decisions and continue our path.

Making decisions and then regretting having made it is like who eats a cake and then complains because he no longer has it.

Reference is made in the Bible to some people fleeing from a city that was burning. They had been offered protection with the instruction not to turn to look at the city. A woman from the group did not resist the temptation to look and became a statue of salt.

When we decide something and then we want to return to our previous situation, we stick to the past and this prevents us from evolving.

How can unconscious well-being bring unhappiness? In times of opulence citizens increase alcohol consumption and waste in every way. That's what they call happiness. When the time of "skinny cows" comes, they remember waste and call it happiness . They see no cause and effect relationship between what they lived and what they live now. The others are blamed for the consequences.

When the time of "skinny cows" comes, they remember waste and call it happiness.

It can be said that they were not only creating the unhappiness they are living now, but that they were drinking the future of their children and grandchildren. Now they cannot offer them the conditions they would have liked to give them.

This idea that all past time was better, is actually afraid of not having a promising future. If we have that fear, we may not be doing anything to have that future and the way to compensate is to look to the past. To say that all past time was better, is to accept that we wasted that past and that we learned very little.

The responsability

If we were able to accept that the past is the cause of the present, we could better understand the consequences of our decisions in the past and anticipate the future. If we do not accept this, we will have to believe in luck, chance and miracles.

It is interesting to note that some religious, when they cannot explain something, refer to a miracle of God or a misfortune sent by God. It is a convenient explanation, but not rational. It is very similar to who uses the word karma as a way to avoid giving an explanation. When we cannot explain something we say “that was his karma” but in this case the hidden word that we ignore the cause.

When we cannot explain something we say "that was his karma" but in this case the hidden phrase we ignore the cause.

Similarly, when something negative happens to someone we can say “that was their karma” as a criticism, as a malicious way of feeling superior.

We do not realize that who is thinking that idea and who is feeling those feelings are we and therefore who will receive the consequence are we. We have to be responsible for everything we think, desire and do.

We are really obliged to understand how we elaborate our future with our present. If we do not understand it, we will continue to create conditions that we do not want.

So one of our responsibilities is to stop complaining and begin to understand how we did to create the conditions in which we live. There is a very repeated phrase attributed to Einstein that says that if we continue to do the same, we will have the same results.

We cannot have different effects if we are not willing to change our behavior.

Can't we think of anything we can change in our lives? Do we lay our bed when we wake up? If we do not, that is a change we can make. Do we give thanks to life every time we eat? If we do not, that is another change. Thus we take responsibility.

We are really obliged to understand how we elaborate our future with our present. If we do not understand it, we will continue to create conditions that we do not want.

The motives

Annie Besant points out that motives are very important in thinking, in desires and emotions. However, they have no consequence in action, only in the mental and desire levels.

The consequences of the action are independent of the reason for the act and this is due to the law that says that each force operates on its own plane. Actions also have consequences, but their consequences are at the level of the action. What is meant is that the action does not act on the character. Let's clarify this statement.

Annie Besant points out that motives are very important in thinking, in desires and emotions. However, they have no consequence in action, only in the mental and desire levels.

This idea needs an example to make it look clearer. A person may have learned in their culture to respect traffic lights as a pedestrian and as a car driver. This learning can be interpreted as that citizens have a high moral development on respect for laws.

However, many of these people when living in societies where these rules are not respected begin to act similarly to their new neighbors. This indicates that the action was not due to its high motives, but to social demands.

Only those who have a moral development that motivates them to respect the rules of coexistence, will maintain that respect when going to live in a community that does not take into account these norms.

Here we are interpreting the motives as internal, not as taxes imposed by society. What is called "external motivation" is closer to behavioral techniques or norms of social coercion.

Here the word motivation is used, as the subject's own. It is a force related to his will. When referring to “external motivation”, we refer to a force imposed by others and in this case, although it is possible that the behavior changes, the character does not develop.

Here the word motivation is used, as the subject's own. It is a force related to his will.

The motives interact with the character . Two people with the same need can act in totally different ways depending on their different characters. Schopenhauer is very clear in this regard when referring to the knowledge of himself. He says that if someone steals and wants to know himself, the first thing he has to accept is that he is a thief. You cannot tell yourself that it was a causal fact. It must be said that he is a thief and make a plan, if he wants to stop being one.

That plan should include separating from the occasions where you can steal. No thieves friends. The idea is that changing character requires a lot of effort, because we are referring to what we have become because we have created it with our thinking, feeling and acting.

Changing the character requires a lot of effort, because we are referring to what we have become because we have created it with our thinking, feeling and acting.

The reason is much more important than the action, in the formation of the character. The motive has more strength than the action. Its energy produces greater consequences, but the action ends in itself. If someone makes a mistake with good intention, his character helps him to have the strength to recognize his mistakes, accept the suffering, learn from them and, on the next occasion, act with me He is wise.

The motive interacts with the character, the action does not. It should be clarified that this is in terms of individual Karma. The social action has obvious historical influences, but in this work we are dealing with the issue of karma and its influence on the development of character.

Responsible for what we do not want

This situation poses a problem for us. If we recognize a mistake, how can we take responsibility and modify the consequences? Nobody wants to suffer the consequences of their mistakes, but neither can the effects of the actions be avoided. What can we do?

Nobody wants to suffer the consequences of their mistakes, but neither can the effects of the actions be avoided. What can we do?

The first thing will be to recognize that our behavior affects other people. Players or drinkers should know that by wasting their money their family will live with many needs.

Whoever wasted and wanted to change should modify their expenses, upon receiving their salary or any other payment, they should buy the support for their family, before making any other expenses. This way you will have less to waste.

Many of the therapies for people with these vices are directed directly at the person so that each day he plays or drinks less. He does not always think of healing by helping others.

Suppose the player is single and that his parents do not need financial protection. The player could donate an important percentage of what he dedicates to the game to an organization that he recognizes as a benefactor.

In this case you will be joining forces that have altruistic motivations and those positive thoughts and emotions will give them a strength that he or she lacks.

A person who has become ill because of their bad habits should think about how to help other people who are sick.

He does not always think about healing by helping others.

Cut the ball

In a soccer game we can let the ball run its course and the opposing team scores a goal or we can stop it. That is, we are not obliged to let the world take its course, even if we recognize that we have been the cause.

If a father understands that he has given his son too much freedom and that he is now not only does not respect him but wants to impose conditions that disavow him as a father, he can surrender and think that there is nothing left to change or he can decide to take action To reverse the situation.

The earlier you do better. The later you do, the cost will be higher.

Perhaps the most difficult part of this is to stop the ball and modify the behavior towards your child is to recognize that he has a wrong philosophy about what life is.

In this case, the father always believed that letting his son do what he wanted was not only comfortable, but it was very good for his son that he would learn what freedom was.

Now he understands that the son confused freedom with debauchery and also confused the father's lack of authority with the right to be despotic with others.

The real problem is not reorienting the child's behavior. The problem is that the father has to reorient his own behavior. He has to develop his character and what he didn't do in years for comfort, he has to learn to do it now with suffering.

Getting ahead of the facts is a form of foresight and courage. It is more comfortable to let things take their course, but we have the possibility of giving them a new direction by taking responsibility.

Karma and philosophy

Stoic Philosophy

Stoic philosophers also give an answer as to destiny. It should be stressed that destiny is another way of saying karma . The Stoics believe that destiny is made and that we cannot escape it. Therefore, it is best to accept it and not seek to avoid it, or face it.

It is a brave way of living. It is like a stone that accepts to be stone, a king who accepts to be king or a beggar who accepts to be a beggar. The problem with this position is that it is like accepting that you are in a prison and not looking for a way out.

The Stoics do not know that they themselves have created their destiny and have the key to create a different destiny.

Predestination

There are different ways of explaining the world and its inequalities and among these forms is determinism and predestination.

As an example of predestination it can be presented to the Lutheran church. Lutero trató de comprender el problema de la desigualdad de los seres humanos y aceptó la tesis de que los seres son diferentes porque Dios lo quiere. Llegó aún más lejos. Afirmó que los hombres están salvados o condenados desde antes de nacer.

El problema es que, de acuerdo a esta teoría religiosa, los hombres no saben si han sido elegidos. Solo tienen indicios: uno de ellos es el éxito. Los fracasados no tienen espacio en el cielo. Otro indicio es la capacidad de trabajar. Por esta razón los luteranos se pasan la vida trabajando y no disfrutan de los placeres de la vida.

Trabajan en esta vida para ser felices en la otra. Según el Sociólogo Weber, esta es una de las razones por las que los países del norte de Europa (con influencia luterana) son más ricos que los del sur (con influencia católica).

El problema de esta doctrina de la predestinación es que ya hay un destino que no puede ser cambiado. Sin embargo, es interesante que todos quieran pertenecer a los salvados y quieren poseer los indicios y se esfuerzan por demostrar que los tienen.

Esta es una forma de crear el destino que se quiere, por medio de la fe.

La llave del buen destino

Antes de continuar, recordemos el siguiente cuento sobre la situación de los tres hijos de un hombre rico.

Este hombre tenía una reliquia que hacía a los hombres justos, buenos y de alto desarrollo moral.

Antes de morir, llamó a sus tres hijos por separado y le dio a cada uno su herencia.

Después de la muerte del padre, los hijos se reunieron y descubrieron que cada uno recibió la reliquia para su desarrollo moral.

Ellos comprendían que solo uno de ellos tenía la reliquia original y los demás una simple copia.

Sabían que solo quien tuviese el original se haría noble.

Hablaron con un sabio para que les dijera quien tenía el amuleto verdadero y el sabio les dijo:

Tienen que hacer esfuerzos para ser nobles, solo lo conseguirá quien tenga el amuleto original.

Pasaron los años y los tres hermanos alcanzaron un alto desarrollo moral. Años después se volvieron a encontrar y fueron a hablar con el sabio para que les explicara cómo podía haber ocurrido eso.

El sabio se sonrío y les dijo:

Las tres reliquias son solo copias. El original fue destruido hace siglos, pero se hicieron muchas copias. Sin embargo, el desarrollo moral que han logrado se debe al esfuerzo de cada uno .

El amuleto solo fue una motivación para seguir adelante.

Dios ha permitido que cada ser humano consiga la copia que necesita para lograr su desarrollo. Cada religi n es la reliquia que necesitan sus feligreses para avanzar en la vida. Todas las religiones son la copia de la verdadera, que nadie sabe d nde est la original.

Podemos decir que la teor a de la predestinaci n tiene mucha relaci n con esa reliquia que da el poder del desarrollo moral. El intentar cumplir con las condiciones o los indicios que se alan a los que ser n salvados es un esfuerzo que convierte, a quienes lo intentan, en seres del nivel que es para ellos el ideal.

El desarrollo moral que han logrado se debe al esfuerzo de cada uno.

El mediador salvado

Otras religiones se alan que los hombres son salvados si un sacerdote los bendice, aunque tenga muchos pecados mortales. Incluso, se lleg a vender indulgencias que no era otra cosa sino pagarle a un sacerdote para que le quitara los pecados.

Hay quienes creen que basta que un pecador se arrepienta ante un sacerdote para estar liberado de toda consecuencia.

Tal vez el beneficio para el creyente sea el de quedar libre de culpa. La culpa impide que la persona se desarrolle y el quedar libre de culpa le da la sustentaci n para seguirse desarrollando. Pero no se puede confundir esta liberaci n de la culpa, con liberarse de la ley de causa y efecto.

Como se dijo antes, todas las religiones son necesarias para sus feligreses. Cada quien est en la religi no grupo social que necesita para adquirir experiencia.

Sin embargo, hay que preguntarse hasta qu punto una religi n ayuda a sus seguidores a ser m s responsables o si los feligreses est n justificando su falta de responsabilidad. Si alguien cree que puede pecar de manera indefinida, porque siempre Dios le va a perdonar, se est convirtiendo en un ser irresponsable y est usando una imagen sagrada, no para elevarse, sino para degradarse.

Es totalmente v lido confiar en seres de mayor evoluci n que la nuestra, pero esa ayuda que esperamos tiene que combinarse con nuestro esfuerzo . Si queremos que un mediador nos ayude, debemos ser mediadores de otros que necesitan nuestro apoyo. Un profesor puede ayudar a sus alumnos en el aprendizaje, pero l no puede aprender por ellos. El perd n de los pecados se puede comparar al profesor que le dice al estudiante de bajo rendimiento, no importa como hayas salido en el examen, si haces un esfuerzo lo vas a lograr . En el caso de la liberaci n de la culpa es decirle al feligr s La culpa impide que te sientas capaz de liberarte de tus vicios, yo te digo que estas libre de culpa y, por lo tanto, esfu rzate para liberarte .

no se puede confundir esta liberación de la culpa, con liberarse de la ley de causa y efecto.

La ley del karma señala que lo que somos ahora es consecuencia de todo lo que hemos hecho antes. Así que en relación a nuestro pasado estamos ya en la otra vida, la vida de las consecuencias de nuestras acciones pasadas. Lo que sucede es que las acciones de nuestro presente son las mediadoras para nuestra vida futura que queremos.

El karma y la reencarnación

El karma también es llamado Ley de la Causalidad . La idea es que todo lo que somos es consecuencia de nuestras acciones o inacciones del pasado y que lo que seremos es consecuencia del presente.

Sin embargo, muchas veces nos preguntamos cómo opera esta ley ya que observamos que a los delincuentes les va bien ya los honestos les va mal. La respuesta está en que estamos realizando la observación en una sola vida y por lo tanto no tenemos la perspectiva necesaria para ver todos los elementos.

Es posible que quien vive hoy en la miseria, vivió una vida de lujos en el pasado y no la aprovecho en su desarrollo moral.

También es posible que quien tiene una vida de lujos hoy está siendo compensado por alguna buena acción en el pasado y si hoy está abusando de esa posición es porque no ha desarrollado su carácter lo suficiente para comprender que la vida no es para malgastarla.

Un hombre que por motivos egoístas otorga una tierras a la ciudad, en la siguiente encarnación, nacerá rico, pero su carácter le impedirá disfrutar de esa riqueza.

Estas personas vivirán pasando de un extremo al otro, hasta que por fin descubran que la vida tiene sentido, si le damos una dirección.

El karma y el desarrollo del carácter

Hay también un karma del carácter. El carácter es lo que hemos desarrollado a través de diferentes vidas . Lo seguimos desarrollando en esta, pero no lo creamos en esta vida.

Lo que no nos gusta de nuestro carácter lo podemos cambiar en esta vida y todo lo que ganemos se mantendrá en las próximas existencias. Si pudiésemos observarnos en diferentes vidas, veríamos como hemos ido creando nuestro carácter y como este es un sello que nos diferencia de los demás, porque ha sido nuestra propia construcción.

Lo más importante sobre el carácter es que es la joya de la corona. Todo lo que hemos ganado en el desarrollo del carácter lo mantendremos por toda la eternidad. Nada perdemos al dedicarnos al desarrollo moral. Así como Dios es el Arquitecto del Universo, nosotros somos los arquitectos de nuestro universo.

Podemos decir que hay karma bueno y karma malo, pero ambos tienen una razón de ser: el desarrollo del carácter.

Podemos decir que hay karma bueno y karma malo, pero ambos tienen una razón de ser: el desarrollo del carácter.

Biography

Besant, Annie. Karma. http://sociedadteosofica.es/nuevaweb/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Besant_Karma.pdf

Schopenhauer, Arthur. Eudemonología o el arte de ser feliz. Barcelona, Herder, 2007.

Sugerencias de enlaces:

What is meditation?

The Minor Arcana of the Tarot Rider

The mysteries of the Major Arcana

Autor: José Contreras, redactor en la gran familia de hermandablanca.org