karma (interim - and do not use to victim blame or for spiritual bypassing!!! It is for YOU to look at YOURSELF ONLY)

PPS - I am finding more and more Westerners using karma as an excuse to victim blame others, or indulge in spiritual bypassing. It is neither: it is a tool for YOU to use to take responsibility for what YOU have done. Anyone who claims otherwise is either amathiac, lying, or incompetent. 

As an interim 'definition', please refer to the following posts http://gnwmythr.blogspot.com.au/search/label/karma, particularly:

• http://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2007/06/workshop-on-past-lives-part-1-working.html;
• http://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2007/10/judging-others.html;
• http://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2008/03/know-thyself-be-thyself-and-occlumency.html;
• http://gnwmythr.blogspot.com.au/2009/07/film-flatliners-and-personal.html;
• http://gnwmythr.blogspot.com.au/2009/12/could-there-be-sort-of-karmic.html;
• http://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2010/01/judging-others-people-who-experience.html;
• http://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2010/04/distant-marriages-and-growth.html;
• http://gnwmythr.blogspot.com.au/2010/05/no-rest-for.html;
• http://gnwmythr.blogspot.com.au/2010/11/personal-responsibility.html;
• http://gnwmythr.blogspot.com.au/2011/02/random-thoughts.html (which discusses group karma, which some people dispute exists: make up your own mind, Dear Reader - don't believe either me or them); and
• http://gnwmythr.blogspot.com.au/2014/10/post-no-599-language-links-to-concepts.html.

PS - There is some bad information and misconceptions around the topic of karma, incidentally. For instance, this article portrays the "solution" to karma as self acceptance and spiritual love for all, and claims that karma only exists in the physical world. 

That is wrong: karma, the Principle of Cause and Effect, or whatever other term you want to use for it, applies in al levels of existence - and applies just as equally to "good" things as to "bad". 

It is also a cop out from dealing with our past mistakes - wishful thinking, in a sense, hoping that it will all just go away, rather than BEING AN ADULT, and accepting (spiritual)responsibility for the consequences of our past actions on other people and making genuine and credible efforts to help heal them of what we have done. This weakness of character (cop out / wishful thinking) is effectively a limit on our manifestation of spiritual love - and THAT is probably the worst part of this rubbish article (and others like it). 

I don't deny that it is difficult to do all this - I been driven to the limit (and am there right now in some aspects of life) by karmic AND OTHER spiritual lessons / challenges. However, we have other strengths we can call on, and, in the context of karma, one of greatest is our Higher Self.

The Higher Self is also one of the biggest weaknesses of the article I referenced at the start of this note: it is not us but our "better self" that decides when we have learned a karmic lesson.