1 · The default option for the mind is to operate on its prior conditioning.
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4 · Every thought and association that just "bubbles up" now (or has perhaps become as unconscious as to feel like a second nature) exists as a result of your participation in its creation.
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5 · In order to be the creator of your future you must realize that you have also been, perhaps less consciously so, the creator of your past. To deny your role in its creation is to deny that it is a part of you.
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6 · Karma may be seen as the accumulated residue of your past thoughts and action. Their consequences form the backbone of your mind's conditioning.
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7 · Karma recreates itself automatically through the unconscious projection of the past into the future. It is a self-perpetuating loop; the mind's conditioning causing the same unconscious patterns of thought and behavior that further serve to cement that conditioning.
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8 · If you do no take ownership of your karma it will keep you imprisoned in the same patterns and the same results in your life. There can be some peripheral, circumstantial change, but no true and lasting transformation.
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9 · The default mode of the mind does not require your participation, in the same way as your heart does not require your awareness for it to keep beating. It is there to assist your organism to survive and maintain itself with the minimum expenditure of energy.
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10 · But to maintain is not to thrive, and by nature we only grow and evolve automatically up to a certain age; the rest is left to us to do. What you've put into your mind in your past is now your responsibility, as much as what you put into it in the future is.
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11 · In the awake state one is conscious of their mind and its conditioning, and hence one is liberated to a certain degree to choose and create one's reality and direction. Your karma is your responsibility.
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12 · In the dream state one operates automatically, unconsciously responding to the mind's prior conditioning. Your karma is your master.
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13 · I've seen people weeks before dying only realizing then that they had spent the majority of their lives in a dream state. Feeling the weight of their realization and the loss it represented, they all urged me not to miss the same opportunity they did.
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14 · Your task as a conscious human being is to bring consciousness to this unconscious aspect. Become aware of your prior conditioning as it manifests itself in your life, each moment. Choose to take ownership of it. Be its creator, not its victim.
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15 · Repetition is not the mother of learning. Repetition is the mother of conditioning. You can never escape conditioning, it is part of human nature. But you can always become aware of it, and choose to create a better one now, and for the future. Your karma is up to you.
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