A friend asked:  “Can you suggest a good book  on resolving or transmuting Karma?”  I replied:  “Hi, a quick answer, other than actively asking forgiveness, no I don’t.” When I think about it, I am surprised I don’t.  I briefly Googled “transmute karma” and came up with all sorts of astral info by different channellers spouting rhetoric by “spiritual masters” and offering violet flame meditations and the like.  I didn’t find their info useful.  Yes, I think meditating on the violet flame can be helpful because the message spirit is receiving when you do that is, “I am sitting here with the intention to transmute karma, so please help me get clear and empty enough as I do this exercise, to receive true guidance on how I may begin to clear my personal karma.”

A detailed specific visualization exercise can either be distracting or it can help lead you into that place of being empty and open.  Whatever allows you to be focused fully enough to become empty. The only problem with so much of the astral info out there is that people can get caught up in it and more often it only distracts them from spiritual work because it fills the mind with lofty yet unsubstantial words and phrases.

The astral world is like gangs of beautiful teenage girls in string bikinis roller blading through morning traffic and stopping to chat with the businessmen on their way to work.  Yes, entertaining and fun and a pleasant way to pass the time, but it’s not getting you into your office any faster.  Again it all goes back to intent.

Some people came into this life intending to burn right through their perceived karma with nose to the grindstone, and others not so much.  They don’t mind going at a slower pace because well, they really enjoy the rollerblading bikinis on the way to work each day and heck, they’ve got other lifetimes to clear stuff up if they want anyway.

Most of what I have learned about karma was during one on one teachings at the ashram and then during personal meditation on what I’d learned afterward.  When your teacher is gone for several months at a time, you have plenty of time to meditate on their teachings, so it’s as though they never left.  I realize not everyone has a life where they can meditate twice a day for an hour or more, and didn’t spend a dozen years living in ashrams doing spiritual practice 8 or more hours every day.  But even sitting to meditate on the question of transmuting karma can work even if you can only sit for 10 minutes at a time.

I’d practice 10 minutes of breath meditation every day at least twice a day,  Just sit and focus on your breath as it comes in and out of your nostrils, feel it on your upper lip as you exhale, and feel it being breathed up into your head.  Keep your attention in your head, don’t feel it in your lungs, keep your attention right at your nostrils on the outbreath and up into your third eye as you breathe in.

When you think a thought, and you repeatedly will, catch yourself and put your focus back on your breathing.   This is a very powerful exercise.  Let it do its work on you. It’s all about the breath.