Breaking Karmic Programming

Karma is our mental library of reactions acquired through our past reactions from beginningless time, which creates the world in which we live and the situations we have to face.

It is necessary to break out of our karmic programming that keeps us bound. It does not matter how right we are about the conventional world (conventional reality), this is still part of the binding programming: being right gives rise to pride and all the other emotions.

We need to be both right…and detached.

There are ‘magicians’ (psychologists) out there who bind us even further to this fabricated world, not realising that they also bind themselves. But there are deeper ‘magicians’ (psychologists) who know the darker story.

They want all sides to think that they are right in any situation that entails dissent, as this sets the cement of division and exaggerates our inner conflict. These illusionists can convince us of anything, because they understand our need to be righteous. This is demonic activity.

In primordial purity, free from elaboration, is luminous awareness. This is where we truly are: a place where demons cannot go. Our true nature is luminous awareness. As long as we remember this, and are mindful of it, anything that occurs as appearances in the mind is a fabrication – a magician’s illusion.

Know that every reaction in the mind is karmic programming from our past, maintained by us…and everyone around us. Breaking karmic programming is recognising compassionate wisdom. Resting in primordially pure, luminous awareness free from elaboration is the only true reality.

When we pause and do not merely re-act,
that is the very process of breaking the programming.
Drop by drop, the fabrication totally collapses.

When we abide in wisdom,
we can clearly identify and cut the root of suffering.

Be mindful: breaking the programming is not replacing it with another one! That is what the magician wants – to keep the illusion going. In the final analysis, “I am” the illusionist. As it says in ancient text:

“Not this, not this. Thou art that.”

To that, we say
“Not this, not this” also
and rest in pure, luminous awareness.

The magician poisons the mind drop by drop, but we can transform this poison into wisdom. Therein lies the fault in the magician’s logic.