If karma is in fact real, wouldn’t we learn our lessons better if we experienced the results of our creations instantly? We would learn our lessons much more quickly. However, this isn’t the way the universe works. Why not? Let’s take a look.

In this physical world, there are two universal laws at play that work hand in hand. The first is the law of free will. It states that people always have a choice in what they choose to do and how they choose to respond to a situation.

Of course there are many responses to various situations, but we can boil down all the responses down to two main categories: Reacting from the ego or responding from the higher self (heart). Fear or Love.

Now, in addition to being able to use the free will that you have, you’re also subject to the universal law of cause and effect, or what is more commonly referred to as karma.

Karmic law states that what goes around comes around. You reap what you sew. Our world is designed like a mirror to show you what it’s like to receive the energies you send out as a way to guide you towards choosing progressively higher choices and ultimately influencing you to choosing to raise your own level of consciousness.

The ego is fear-based and by reacting from the ego, you will attract more fear-based energy into your energy field. Your higher self is sourced in the energy of unconditional Love and choosing to play with this energy will draw more Loving energy towards yourself.

As I’m sure you have noticed, there is a sort of “time gap” between when you throw the boomerang and when it comes back to you. It’s not like if you kill someone, instantly a lighting bolt shoots down from the heavens and zaps you on the spot. In fact, in this lifetime, you may never actually see the resultant manifestations of that energy.

Cue reincarnation. Let’s say a person injures someone in one life. Perhaps in the next life, they may be born with the same injury so that they can see what it’s like to experience this energy. This allows them to choose again and develop acceptance and compassion towards the condition, elevating their level of consciousness. We sometimes refer to this as “learning your lesson.”

It is also possible for them to get angry and imagine that the world is unjust. Perhaps God is angry at them. If they blame their reality on external conditions and refuse to take responsibility for their reality, they won’t truly learn their lesson and grow from the experience.

Cool. Great. Many of us have heard much of this before. Why is this time gap in place? Wouldn’t it make more sense if there was little to no time gap? Wouldn’t people be able to more easily recognize their own creative powers and thus truly realize that they are responsible for their own realities?

Ah, excellent question. However, that time gap was put there for a very good reason. Let me explain.

Today’s guest post is brought to you by Jarett Sabirsh.

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When many various individuals throughout history, many of which had never heard of one another, speak of the exact same non-physical transcendental Reality, there’s got to be some truth to it. Here’s a list that compares quotes from the Enlightened who all say that there is no doer.

Just like the heart and lungs, the mind is going and going all by itself. The problem is that we identify that automatic random thinking as being “me”, when it’s not. Since you can watch the mind and its thinkingness, you are not the mind. This means that only Awareness (that is aware of the mind) is Reality, and the ego/mind is an illusion, and there is no individual “I”. The only real “I” is the Totality of All Existence as formless Unmanifested Infinite Awareness that is aware of Itself.
Translation: There is no doer.

“I am nothing. He is all. I do nothing of my own. He does it. I am God’s pencil. A tiny bit of pencil with which He writes what He likes. God writes through us, and however imperfect instruments we may be, He writes beautifully.” - Mother Teresa
Translation: There is no doer.

“Paradoxical though it may sound: There is a path to walk on, there is walking being done, but there is no traveler. There are deeds being done, but there is no doer.” - Buddha
Translation: There is no doer.

“When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.” - St. John 8:28
Translation: There is no doer.

“All processes are out of my control. When one sees this with understanding, then one is disillusioned with the things of suffering. This is the Path of Purification.” - The Dhammapada verse 279
Translation: There is no doer.

“The man who abides in the will of God wills nothing else than what God is, and what He wills.” - Meister Eckhart
Translation: There is no doer.

“Whatever you may be, you are being ‘lived’. You are not traveling, as you think: you are being ‘traveled.’” - Wei Wu Wei
Translation: There is no doer.

“All Actions are performed by the gunas of prakriti. Deluded by his identification with the ego, a person thinks, ‘I am the doer.’ But the illumined man or woman understands the domain of the gunas and is not attached. Such people know that the gunas interact with each other; they do not claim to be the doer.” - Krishna, Bhagavad Gita, 3:27,28
Translation: There is no doer.

Everything is happening spontaneously, all by itself, as an automatic consequence of what one is. Or to put it even more simply, EVERYTHING is karma.
Translation: There is no doer.

“Only he that thinks ‘I am the doer of actions and the recipient of the fruits of actions’ takes the distinction between the intellect (will) and fate as real. But the Self is neither the doer nor the recipient of the fruits of actions. The sage, who is mind-free and hence free from attachments, and without a (personal) will, does not become a doer of actions, nor does he reap the fruits of actions. Therefore, he is not aware of the distinction between free will and fate.” - Ramana Maharshi
Translation: There is no doer.

“Going on the path of inner experience, I attained the true knowledge, destroying the I-am-the-doer sense at its root. Afterwards, the ever-functioning mind was dead.” - Arunagirinatha
Translation: There is no doer.

“From the standpoint of the Self ‘practicing advaita’ (nonduality) is an oxymoron since in that state there is no longer an entity who can make choices about what should or should not be done. In that state action arises spontaneously from the Self, unmediated by the I-am-the-doer idea.” - David Godman, Translator of Ramana Maharshi’s works
Translation: There is no doer.

However, if you or I were to say right now that “there is no doer”, that would be the ego/mind talking because we’re still identified with the mind and it’s thinkingness. Only the Enlightened who have permanently dissolved all mental activity can say that there is no doer, just as the ego can’t say the ego is an illusion. That’s simply the ego playing it’s clever games to keep consciousness identified with it. The Enlightened have no use for words except to explain things to those who still think words are important. Words only serve a purpose until it’s realized that they don’t serve a purpose. They are useful for the sake of explaining to “others” that they are useless. When they happen spontaneously by themselves, in the moment, for the sake of “others”, in the form of writing or speaking, they serve a purpose. Words are only symbols and representations that cannot fully describe anything. The word chocolate is not chocolate. The Truth is beyond all words, and it’s meant to be experienced, not merely talked about. But you don’t really “experience” it because there is no “this” experiencing “that” when there is only One. You are that One.

“The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way. The Way is wordless. Words are Illusions.” - Bodhidharma

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Jarett Sabirsh temporarily ceased all thought and experienced samadhi, a profound realization of one’s true nature as Awareness. As a result of experiencing Truth/Love, he helps “others” dissolve the barriers that stand in the way of experiencing It for themselves. He is dedicated to truth/love in all of its relative forms, and it’s absolute non-form. http://www.thetruthsoflife.com

Enlightenment is the direct experience of Reality itself, without going through the mind to overlay a perceptual filter through associating the experience with thought.

The mind is simply a tool. It’s a very powerful tool and a very useful tool. It plays a role in physical creation. Every car you’ve driven and every building you’ve ever walked into was first just a thought in someone’s head. Eventually the thought was identified as appropriate so it was made manifest through action.

However, a thought can never be the Truth itself.

You can think about drinking a glass of water all you want until you die, but the only thing that will do you any good is actually drinking the water.

You can hold the glass and drink the water without consciously thinking about it. The thoughts and the experience are two totally different things, completely different realities.

You can talk about a glass of water all you want, but the words are not the water. The finger pointing to the moon is not the moon.

Thoughts are symbolic, conceptual ideas, pointers, but they are not the Truth itself. Thought can never be anything other than thought. Everything is exactly what it is.

Reality just is. You just are. You are. I am.

There is a BIG difference between thoughts and Reality. In fact, the two are mutually exclusive.

The thing is though that the mind has become almost like a cancer. It has taken over Reality and replaced it with its own symbolic reality that only exists within the mind itself. The mind is supporting itself with thoughts created by itself. People spend more time thinking about something than actually having the experiencing the experience itself.

This has happened to such an extent that the “I” that we are who uses the tool called the mind now goes to the tool to loop back and figure out what it is. “Who am I?”

The response is called a self-image, an image that represents who we *think* we are.

Question:

Dear Ariel,

How can anyone come to truth by not using their mind? Yes experience, peace and oneness are wonderful things but has it ever come to your mind that those experiences are illusions? All it really is is shifting your brain into altered states of delta, and alpha states. Shifting your brain states with a brain that eventually does turn to dust.

The mind and the brain are tools that we can use to play in this physical dimension. It’s not who we are. THAT is the key point. Disidentification with the mind.

Thanks,

M.

My response:

My question is how CAN you come to the realization of Truth by using the mind?

If you sit around and think and think and think all day, will you one day discover the truth of what an apple tastes like?

No, you have to EXPERIENCE the taste of an apple in order to know its taste.

Is it necessary to think about the apple while you’re eating it? Not at all. You can simply sit in silence and enjoy the taste of the apple as it is chewed around in the mouth. Whether you’re thinking about the apple, thinking about what you have to do next week, or thinking about nothing at all, your senses are STILL going to register the taste of the apple.

Most people are under the belief that thought is the only way to discover Truth. Either we have the right thoughts about it and thus know it, or we are lacking the correct thoughts and thus don’t know it. Therefore we have to either learn about it, imagine it, or discover it. When the mind is seen as the sole source of authority, to know about something is the same as to actually know it. This is a delusion.

Have you ever had a bad feeling about something? I don’t mean a fear of doing something, but just an intuitive knowingness that something’s just not right. It you drive down this road, you’ll suddenly discover exactly what the “bad feeling” was telling you. How did you know? There was no possible way the mind could have known what was to come, nor any external hints to point out the danger. At first it may be just random chance, but when one starts to experiences a few of these strange “coincidences”, then dozens, then hundreds… it becomes really difficult to truly brush it off as mere chance.

What about the little children who are born and at the age of 3 or 4 can already play the cello like a master, recite major historical facts, and demonstrate other amazing talents that no one can quite pinpoint from where they were developed?

What about those situations when you’re in a state of “flow” with life. You don’t know what’s to come or what to expect, yet everything seems to happen perfectly. You naturally say the right things, doors open up for you, situations somehow fall into place effortlessly, you just so happen to keep making the right decisions. This state of flow may only last for a short period of time, but there’s clearly something that’s been tapped into.

There’s other seemingly mystical sources of knowingness. (Mystical is nothing magical. It simply implies that which is unseen, perhaps undetectable by our physical senses.)

The mind is not the only source of knowledge for us to tap into.

Our physical reality that we, as humans, experience has three dimensions. From a geometric standpoint, we call them length, width, and height.

There is then a fourth dimension called time, but we can only experience one single “point” in time at a time. Our bodies have difficulty living multiple points in time simultaneously.

Nevertheless, the limitation of only being able to experience one point in time at a time is just an illusion. In Reality, ALL time is happening Now.

Let’s take things further, beyond even the fourth dimension of time, and really start pushing the envelope. What happens beyond four dimensions? Does this have anything to do with spirituality?

As usual, synchronicity brought “me” into contact with precisely the right information to help develop these understandings. Let’s watch two short video that help us visualize higher dimensions in a very easy to understand way.

A key point to keep in mind: In the sixth dimension, we can somehow hop, skip, and jump from one life to another. Now if only we had a sixth sense to interact with the sixth dimension…

I tell you this: there are no coincidences.

So in higher dimensions (which are all right here right now, not anywhere “out there” somewhere), it is possible for a being to somehow travel across the universe seemingly instantaneously through a fold in a higher dimension (a fold in the fabric of space/time, the 4th dimension).

That’s great and all, but our physical bodies and minds are limited to perceiving only this three dimensional reality plus time. How on earth (pun intended) are we supposed to perceive higher dimensions when “stuck” in the perception of a three dimensional reality?