The Rules of Karma Governing Life on Earth

#1: KARMA TEACHES BY EXPERIENCE AND NOT TO PUNISH
Although it may often "feel" like punishment, the purpose of karma is to
teach not to punish. Often the way we learn "the best" is to endure the same
type of suffering that we have inflicted on others. For example, I remember
little of my life as a City Commander in ancient Constantinople where I
killed many without mercy, often with little justification. Yet, I remember
vividly the life where I repaid that karma by being slaughtered by an Indian
during the Martin's Hundred massacre. Believe me, I learned the lesson of
mercy in the final terrifying moments of the massacre.

#2: WE ARE ALL HERE TO LEARN LESSONS TAUGHT BY KARMA
We are all here to learn lessons as "spiritual beings in human form". These
lessons are designed to help us grow into greater levels of love, joy, and
awareness. They teach us to "choose love at every moment", to "forgive
everyone, everything", and to "live happy". Where we do not choose love,
show forgiveness, teach tolerance, or display compassion, karma intervenes
to put us back on the path of these lessons. Quite simply, the only way to
achieve a state of karmic balance is to be love.

#3: WE "FORGET" ABOUT KARMA TO SEE IF WE HAVE LEARNED
Before we came, we agreed to put ourself in the path of all that is we
needed to learn. Once we got here, we agreed to "forget" this. The purpose
of "forgetting" is to keep us from being overwhelmed by the totality of our
past while making sure that we have really learned our lessons. For example,
having been a General in many lifetimes, I tended to treat others in a
domineering manner. In this life, I put myself into my situations where
humility would have served me better than being "the dictatorial General".
Only when I overcame this "problem" and learned my lesson did I understand
why I had put myself into those karmic places.

#4: KARMA IS IMPERSONAL, LOGICAL, AND PREDICTABLE
Karma gives you the opportunity at every moment to become open to greater
levels of love and compassion. It operates impersonally: applying to
everyone, all the time, no exceptions. It is very logical: what you sow is
what you reap in exact and precise measure. Karma is as predictable as the
laws of gravity: what is done to you is the net result of what you have done
to others.

#5: KARMA IS PERFECTLY FAIR AND CREATES TOTAL JUSTICE
For example, there are no "innocent" people in prison, they are there for a
reason. If they appear "innocent" in this life, it is because they were
guilty" in a past life and "got away with it". The "innocent" feel "cheated"
now because they cannot see the cause of this life was the effect of a past
life when they were "guilty".

#6: KARMA MAKES US LINK OUR ACTIONS WITH THEIR RESULTS
The cause of this life is always the effect of a past life(s). The goal of
karma is to ensure that we link our actions (the cause) with their results
(the effect). "It is the loving God which helps each Soul develop it's
highest spiritual potential through experience." It is our experience which
teaches us the Law of Love.

The goal of karma is to give you all the experiences that you need to evolve
into greater levels of love, joy, awareness, and responsibility. Karma
teaches that you are totally responsible for the circumstances of your life.
Karma is like "training wheels". They keep you on the straight and narrow
until you have mastered your vehicle and can ride freely on your own.

#8: KARMA TEACHES US LOVE AND COMPASSION FOR ALL
"See that you are at the center of the universe... Accept all things as
being part of you... When you perceive that an act done to another is done
to yourself... you understand the great truth." Tolerance opens the door to
compassion and love.

#9: KARMA DRIVES US TO WHOLENESS AND UNITY WITH LIFE
Karma drives us from oneness to wholeness to unity with life. Karma forces
us to look beyond ourselves (oneness) so that we can see ourselves as we
truly are (wholeness or Self Realization) . Once we truly understand
ourselves, we can see our divinity (God Realization) and our unity with all
life.

#10: KARMA DRIVES US TO SERVICE AND THEN TO LOVE
Karma drives us to service. Service - co-workership with God - is the
ulitmate __expression of love. Love means service: service is your choice.
Once you accept total responsibility for your life, you see yourself as Soul
in service to life. Once you do, you become a fully realized co-worker with
God.

#11: UNDERSTANDING KARMA IS THE KEY TO HARMONY
"Belief in karma ought to make the life pure, strong, serene, and glad. Only
our own deeds can hinder us; only our own will can fetter us. Once let us
recognize this truth, and our liberation has struck. Nature cannot enslave
the Soul that by wisdom has gained power and uses both in love."

#12: FOR ANY QUESTION, LOVE IS ALWAYS THE ANSWER
Karma shows us that for any question love is the answer. "Love is our
birthplace, our final refuge, and our reason for being. If we recognize that
compassion and love are the ultimate destination of our journey, the heart
of the universe responds."