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According to the teachings of Buddhism, Karma is part environmental, part nature and nurture, and part hereditary. It is the result of how we conduct ourselves and of our own past actions.

Generally, we will do things without thinking about what we’re doing, but as far as Buddhism is concerned, nothing happens to a person that he doesn’t deserve. Karma knows us and will always work on the motives behind the deed.

But often, we will make decisions and fail to think about the consequences.

The cause of the visible effect may also not be confined to the present time. It may be traced to a proximate, or ‘remote past birth’, in other words, something that happened to us in a past life.

But to understand Karma we must ask ourselves these questions:

• What is the cause of the inequality that exists in the world?
• Why might one person be brought up in the lap of luxury and another in complete poverty?
• Why is someone born disabled?
• Why should one person be born with saintly tendencies and another with criminal?

The world is shrouded in inequality. Inequality is either purely accidental or has a cause. That said, no sensible person would consciously attribute such unevenness or inequality by accident or through blind chance.

In other words, we are part of the problem and we are part of the solution. We create our own heaven and hell. We are instrumental in our own lives. We are the architects of our own fate. We must act with compassion and tolerance. We must come together.

We must also be the change we want to see in the world. We must want to do and be better. We must all work together so we can make the world safer.

It’s not just for us, either. It is important and we must want to leave the world a better place for future generations to come. 

Karma and lessons come back to us whether we’re this side or the other side of life. Which side you’re on is immaterial.

It is more helpful if you learn your lessons this side of life by doing what’s right, what the universe expects. Karma is the luggage our soul carries from past lives to this one. Unfortunately, this luggage never gets lost, you’re stuck with it, until you sort through its contents and deal with it. Without us knowing, we will be experiencing karma that originated several lifetimes ago.

On our part it is important we understand karma, by starting with acknowledging the role of each person in our life asking questions like, ‘what have they come to teach us and what are we teaching them, why are they there and what is the karma you’re meant to experience with that person?’

Through karma, our actions throughout our lifetime become the circumstances of who we are, so if we’re not happy with that, we should live this life truthfully and authentically. One of the most interesting facts about karma is that it can make us reincarnate in a manner that is the reverse to how we might expect.

This means that our parent could have been our child in a former life, but before reincarnating in this lifetime, the souls agreed to reincarnate the opposite way around, with a parent coming back as a child and vice versa. Souls can switch genders too.

All of these positions can change throughout our numerous lifetimes based on our karmic need. This means that whatever dynamic is needed to repair or heal us, karma will be achieved through changing roles in our cycle of lives on earth. So, the people you know now may have had a very different influence on your previous life.

But through honest introspection and evaluation, we can recognise role reversals, other people’s faults and weaknesses, recognise what we need to change. It is important we modify our behaviour; end karmic patterns; acknowledge the truth of karma, so that we encourage emotional and mental growth.

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