The news Central Florida News 13 said he rents a room in a house 3 blocks south of me, I think he was just walking through my yard because he was taking the woods way back to his house from points north of me where he’d began a fire about 5am. He didn’t count on the privacy fences inside my east woods, and the maze of trails, so he had to walk right in my open yard to get back out to the street. He was staying under the cover of woods so the helicopters didn’t see him as he made his way home. If he hadn’t spoken, I would not have turned around and seen him. Divine intervention. As it turns out, I know his mother.
A friend emailed to ask:
“Can you suggest a good book, website or prayer on resolving or transmuting Karma?”
Hi, a quick answer, 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 etc. I didn’t find their info valid or 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 violet flame 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.
POP QUIZ:
In the last few months I’ve given you a couple of really powerful things you could do to clear up some karma. You get a prize if you can tell me what they are 🙂
I realize when I think about it that 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. If you think a thought, catch yourself and put your focus back on your breathing. It isn’t easy.
Keep me posted.”