Klesha of Karmic Konditioning

Would karma exist if we were not taught it?

The notion of karma has a social function, which makes it a suspicious concept to being with.

After all, religions and belief systems across the world clutter our awareness with all sorts of garbage to control our behavior.

So, why should karma be any different?

Also, you could argue that the human mind is predisposed to the notion of karma.

This becomes apparent when you study game theory…

I won’t bore you with the details. But the basic premise is our “tit for tat consciousness” provides an evolutionary advantage – meaning – when we are, individually and collectively, predisposed towards a sense of fairness and justice, we pass on our genes better.

This makes the concept of karma even more suspicious!

But that’s not all… We also have self-fulfilling prophecies…

What if our belief in karma influences our subconscious, and our belief itself contaminates our decision making, creating the play of karma?

This isn’t so far fetched. In fact, it is even aligned with the traditional notion of the causal body and karmic seeds…

That makes the concept of karma extremely suspicious!

Due to these three reasons, I start thinking…

And I find it much more likely that the experience karma is due to a belief in karma, rather than a partial universe which punishes “evil” acts and rewards “good” ones.

Or a universe where actions are measured relative to their subjective impact on sentient beings, and where each such action gets balanced out with an equal and opposite action.

The more I meditate on this subject, the more it falls apart…

Perhaps the notion of karma is nothing more than an obstruction caused by conditioning.