Q: Is it possible to "avoid" karma? | Sharing Love and Peace

A: Karma (unconscious) is not all "bad." Among our patterns of karma (unconscious), there is also accumulated "good" karma (unconscious), which is what is known as "virtue" or "merit," and it is thanks to such merit that we are born into this world. Therefore, the Buddha taught that just being born as a human is a great stroke of luck, and that one must not waste that opportunity. Life is a fleeting event, and one must not waste time. The Buddha emphasized that one should seize this once-in-a-lifetime chance and not spend time satisfying worldly desires (desire, consciousness level 125). This is because things in this world are transient and merely temporary illusions. Jesus repeated the same admonition: Do not store up treasures on earth, but in heaven. For earthly treasures are fleeting and are a path that leads to corruption.
We are influenced by patterns of karma (unconscious), but it is not absolute. This is because we have a spiritual will that allows for choice. Correction arises from the will to make higher choices rather than the conventional lower ones. Temptation is an old pattern that appears repeatedly until one makes a firm decision. Unresolved issues of karma (unconscious) appear repeatedly in easy-to-understand forms that expose the underlying stance. A quick way to identify this is to consider your situation from the opposite perspective. In other words, the fact that you are in the position of a victim in this life means that you were the perpetrator in a past life. The ripples you created on the water's surface in the past are now washing over your life as waves.
If you have resistance to using the word "karma (unconscious)," you can replace it with the word "unconscious (karma)." Then, applying psychological terminology, you can rephrase it to say that the victim in this life is a hidden perpetrator in the personal or collective unconscious (karma) of past lives, and is currently inducing attacks from others in the unconscious (karma).
Few people try to find the source of their difficulties within themselves. And the majority of people project their problems onto others, spending their time in an endless game of victim and perpetrator. The ego persistently plays the role of the selfish victim, and if necessary, sticks to it until death. The ego will do anything to protect itself.
In clinical settings, one encounters pairs who play the roles of perpetrator and victim ad nauseam. This pattern will not be resolved empirically, psychologically, or spiritually unless the parties involved admit that they are also somewhat responsible for their own personality elements. By not admitting it and suppressing it, they end up posing as clever operatives. It is very instructive to observe how stubbornly a victim refuses to take responsibility.
In most domestic disputes, the victim knows the perpetrator's breaking point well and can drive the perpetrator to violence with just a single word. And that word is one that strikes very well at the attacker's weaknesses.
For example, there was a case like this. A woman asked her husband for sex, but he was not in the mood that day. The woman felt rejected and slashed at her husband with a sharp blade: "Are you even a man?" The wife knew the environment in which her husband had grown up well and knew what to say to make him violent. However, in this case, the husband stopped himself from being violent at the last moment, left the house, and divorced her. That word was an unbearable insult to him. In this way, words that target masculinity are typical, and some women know well how to use them to attack emotionally unstable men.
It is extremely important to know exactly what words the victim uttered just before being subjected to violence. In the case of men, in domestic disputes, they use silence to push their partner to the breaking point—not insulting words. And they say, "I didn't say anything. She just jumped on me and started breaking the furniture."
The same phenomenon can be seen in the games of international conflict and riots. They keep throwing bricks at the police, and when the police finally fire, they film the "poor victim" (it is even more effective if it is a child) and use it to spark further violence. Every year, "poor victims" march, and their own people are hurt by retaliatory acts.
Even if the critical level of integration (consciousness level 200) is the turning point for a spiritual breakthrough, looking at the structure of the ego in this way shows how insurmountable it is. The power of the ego is that great, and nothing can overcome it except spiritual power (truth/power).
More advanced spiritual seekers take responsibility even for things happening "outside." This is because, by looking inward daily, they know that all perceptions and causes received as "outside" things are actually "inside." The interaction of the social ego's programs is just like a movie, and it is very fascinating to the mind. From a safe place, one can watch how the ego skillfully unfolds its maneuvers on the world stage. Looking back at history, one can see the corruption where the loyalty of the people, which should originally be dedicated only to God, is dedicated to the inflated ego of the power holders of the time. The distortion of spiritual truth (power) for political purposes has existed since the dawn of civilization, and it is still rampant today.

To completely escape from it, there is no choice but to awaken (enlightenment), but by engaging in spiritual inquiry, you can loosen its shackles.

A: The ego is the center of karma (unconscious) and also its storehouse. It is extremely important to know that the ego and karma (unconscious) are actually the same thing. By using a simple kinesiology (muscle reflex) test, you can extract countless pieces of useful information about the root cause of any problem within a minute. However, that alone does not solve the problem. Thinking of this life as separate from all other lives is an artifice of perception. In "Truth," there is only one life that encompasses periodic reincarnation. Reincarnation means that states convenient for solving specific problems are created from time to time.
For example, fighting on a battlefield gives the soul an opportunity to leap over the critical point of 200 (consciousness level) (the level from "fear" to "courage") for the sake of higher principles, even when facing the death of one's own body. Since long ago, young people have been obsessed with professions or sports that put their lives at risk in order to overcome fear. Bullfighting, diving, motorcycle racing, etc., all provide opportunities to overcome physical death or cowardice. However, even if one gains a sense of psychological achievement, the essential spiritual value is missing. Unless courage overcomes fear in the name of higher principles such as loyalty, devotion to God, patriotism, truth (power), or morality, one cannot cross the critical point of 200 (consciousness level). This is also expressed in the fact that knights of the old era went on expeditions or holy wars carrying a glove or a rose of a woman who was important as a symbol.