Greetings Cosmic,

As I understand it, the dynamics of karma are based on restoring balance. So if karmic 'law' is in effect, balance will be restored.... Eventually, maybe some times through more interactions than others.

In the first part of your question it sounded like you were saying that a negative act was being used to karmically treat a negative act?  If so, I don't think that is successful karma, sounds more like retribution. I thought the balance of karma happens when we meet somone who has wronged us and can turn away or offer goodwill---? ( I have a couple of relationships where karma's taking awhile; it's hard being forgiving to some. But that's by the boards, nothing to dowith here.) 

Bets

Hi CA-
Karma is just cause and effect. The word itself means "action", and that's all that is implied.

If you don't put gas in your car the karmic result is that it eventually runs out of gas and stope. The solution to rectify that karmic state is to put gas in the car. In this sense, karma is the great educator.

Past actions often leave us with definitions predicated on someone else's discomfort - like after "getting even" with a tormentor, we feel good but they feel uncomfortable. So they "get even" with us, and it goes back and forth until we get tired of being obnoxious. That's a typical karmic entanglement. The cure is to stop playing that game. Abandon hatred and anger and acept oneness and loving kindness, and then we don't have the urge to mistreat or fellow beings. The negative attachments to past actions can be gotten rid of easily by simply not being negative.

In its simlpest form, getting rid of negative karma is a matter of notuicing that certain things turned out badly in some manner. We wish to not cause that any more. So we disown whatever it was that we did and we disown that kind of action, and in their place we take up a form of activity that is harmless. Then we go on with life. You might notice that this is more or less the way most religions handle cofessions, penance etc. It's just an unhooking process.

Hope this helps-
d

Hi CA-
OK - it is unimportant where hardships arise, true. How we deal with them is to the point, and the core of that is what our motives are, since that's what gets trapped in the karma of the action.

A woman came to me to look at her past life and discovered that in her last life she had been given to a busines associate of her fathers in order for him to gain financial position. Her "step-children" were decades older than she was and they mistreated her cruelly. She ran FROM the situation by wrapping a sash cord around her neck and hopping out a window. She found herself in this life in a family that was overworking her, mistreating her and making life a living hell. This time she ran TO a solution by leaving them and setting up an independent business with her husband. That worked out fine.

The French poet Lamartine expressed the same thought far more succintly: "La sortie plus vite est par" = The fastest way out is through. 

It is not so much what we, providing that it doesn't harm others, but how we do it and for what motives. If it harms others, then we have to somehow integrate that experience, meaning that if we did it to save more from worse, we feel good, but compassionate. If we did it to gain power, prestige or money, then we get to have a more intimate experience of the results of our actions.

d

Greetings eggshellseas,

Dr Michael Newton, a hypnotherapist, got alot of information on life in heaven between lives and wrote about it.  I'll go back and read him and get back to you.
I made one of the biggest mistakes of my life when I was 3 YO, not long from heaven's exit gate.  I got confused about living in a democracy for the first time and figured since I was equal to everyone, I'd just throw out all the plans that had been set for my life I was just starting and make my own. I also then mistakenly told my Guidance that male/female love was the only love that counted on Earth.  Later I realized that my soul age made me responsible for my actions regardless of my chronological age.
I threw out Their Love and Their plans, and they let me see for a long time how it is without Them, and it was hell.
I doubt while we're up there if we're in the mood to be rebellious, with all the Love around.

PUL
Bets

Greetings,

I like your interpretation, spooky, because that would make me brave. But I've felt exasperation from Guidance and seen glimpses of the other track.
Strange though, now that I think of it, I may be learning the same major things as were set out for me before, just that this track has been more difficult. Hmm-mm,  At two difficult periods a soul from that track appeared and told me that life was OK.
So IMPOV  'karma' ---the lessons we must learn--- inevitably will be provided.
Apologies, eggshellseas.  Do you think maybe a soul would get rebellious in heaven just to test Love? The adjustment experiences have to be related to the original imbalance.--Or go back to what Dave told Cosmic:  "OK - it is unimportant where hardships arise, true. How we deal with them is to the point, and the core of that is what our motives are, since that's what gets trapped in the karma of the action."

bets