What is the Karma

By Josep Lopez Romero

Good karma can be worked to modify our present energy and improve our current life. According to various Dharmic religions, it is a metaphysical energy (invisible and immeasurable) that is derived from the acts of people. Each of the successive reincarnations is conditioned by the acts performed in previous lives.
This book gives you the keys, through 50 good actions, to improve your karma and keep it in a positive state. Let good karma be your guide.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Josep Lopez Romero
• Release date: May 12, 2020

Josep Lopez Romero

Josep López Romero (1967) is the author of 12 books, including The Courage of the Samurai and The Colours of Dreams, translated into many languages. Apart from his work as a communicator and writer, Josep has also kept very busy during the last two decades providing coaching for authors. Some of his “trainees” have later won international acclaim.@joseplopezcoachingJosep López Romero (1967) es autor de 12 libros, entre ellos "El valor del samurái" y "Los colores de la ilusión", traducidos a varios idiomas. Además de su trabajo como comunicador y escritor, Josep también se ha dedicado durante las últimas dos décadas a practicar el coaching de autores. Algunos de sus "coachees" han obtenido reconocimiento [e-mail]

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WHAT IS THE KARMA

(IN A NUTSHELL)

Josep López Romero

What's that about karma

It is very likely that before reading the title of this book you have heard or read the word karma somewhere. For two or three decades, Eastern religions and philosophy have penetrated strongly into the West, filling a gap in spirituality that until recently was exclusive to the Catholic religion. That is why many practices, and their associated terms, have become common, at least among some people, the most sensitive to Eastern culture.

The word karma, of Sanskrit origin (Sanskrit is a classical Indian language), etymologically means action. So when we speak of good karma we are referring to good deeds, and more specifically to intentional good deeds.

But karma is something else: it is an invisible energy that is derived from the actions of people and survives from one life to another, understanding that our current life is only one of the multiple reincarnations that we all experience throughout our spiritual existence. . In fact, that energy is transformed in each incarnation based on our actions, which condition future reincarnations.

In a practical sense, it could be something like the debit and the credit in the exploitation account of our life, understanding it not only as our current incarnation, but as the different incarnations until we reach enlightenment through our improvement.

In the following pages we will see how to apply this idea to our daily life to achieve peace and serenity, and ultimately achieve spiritual fulfillment, because true peace and happiness, as you will no doubt know, is not bought in department stores: only It can be earned by creating good karma that reaches all areas of our lives.

What is NOT (myths and misunderstandings)

The law of karma is one of the foundations of the Dharmic religions, including Buddhism and Induism. However, its monitoring does not necessarily have to do with religious practice of any kind. In fact, it is natural, universal and inevitable, which means that although we have not heard of it, or do not understand it, it affects us equally.

As with the concepts and ideas that come to us indirectly, intermingled in phrases taken on the fly or read in some magazine between advice and advice for your well-being, karma is also sometimes poorly understood in the West. It is often confused with similar, or even conflicting, ideas, as we will see below.

Karma, for example, is not the same as destiny. When someone suffers a misfortune and another says: It is their karma, as if saying it is their destiny, they are not using this expression precisely. According to the law of karma, there is no written destiny for each of us, there is no fatality, that is, something that will happen regardless of our actions. There is free will, which is the freedom to act by reflection and choice.

Also, according to the law of karma, there is causality, that is, the things that happen to us in this life have a cause, sometimes located in our current life and sometimes in previous fleshly existences. Nothing happens for its own sake, but not because it is written, but because everything is a consequence of our previous decisions and actions. There is no accident, for example, in the birth process: the soul that projects a new personality is incarnated in the environment necessary to balance its karma and promote its growth. Even if you are not aware, it is a choice.

Another common mistake when considering karma is believing that it operates as a kind of spiritual current account, so that at one point in our lives we can make many positive deposits and thus have a balance to later commit negative actions or harmful to others. This is a selfish thought. In karma there is no balance, although there is something similar to a vital balance. A bad action is not justified by many good previous actions. In fact, the important thing in the law of karma is not to act to save your own soul, but to come to understand deeply that the life of others is as precious as your own, and therefore act altruistically out of sheer conviction.

A little history

For many people in the West, religion has lost much