Paying Off Karmic Debt

      Debt is not just financial, it can also be karmic. “Karma refers to the energy created as a result of your actions and relationships during your current and past lives. Karmic debt means that something negative happened in the past that must be addressed in the present or the future before you can continue to enjoy your life fully.”  Not quite. Not all karma is formed from negative circumstances. Some of us experience good karma. I like this definition better: “It is said that all the action-reaction-responses that we experience in life are from the force our karmic debt accumulations (karma quotient). These are said to include the results of all activities that one does in any state, whether in knowledge, ignorance, or by chance, accident or otherwise. In other words all work, activity or energy debts are karmic (action) debts. This necessarily means that to balance out the accumulations of action-reaction, the individual consciousness needs to 'reincarnate' since the results of the actions cannot balance out in one lifetime.”

      Lately I have been doing an accounting of my karmic debts. For about a year I have been experiencing tough losses due to actions such as abandonment, rejection, and death. My accumulation of karmic debt is reaching critical mass. There have been too many good-byes and not enough hellos. To be fair, I have had my share of good karma too, but it has been fleeting. How much karmic debt does it take before I can file for karmic bankruptcy?

     Maybe I should just take out a karmic loan. If I do this, I wonder what will be asked for collateral. Can I borrow on past good karma to lessen the negative karma debt I am experiencing now?  Will doing an act of repentance absolve me or will I carry this forward to future lifetimes? God (sorry, Buddhists don’t believe in God), I hope I do not have to experience this year again in this or another lifetime, otherwise I am converting to Rastafarianism. Some powerful ganja would at least temporary obliterate some of these intrusive memories, plus I kind of like Reggae music.

     

     

          When karmic debt incurred by others toward me comes due, it would be my preference not to have it paid in installments. Call me avaricious, but I am uninterested in codependently waiting for others to partially comprehend their karmic lessons. I want the debt to be paid in full to eliminate further temptation for me to exact payback (ex-Catholics see this as divine justice) which would then create another round of karmic debt.

      

       Please pass the ganja, my head is hurting from thinking about all this karmic debt.