Recently, I’ve had a growing awareness of karma completing in some areas of life. The unresolved part ends, leaving only memory, a neutral history. This amplifies the distinction between what happened (the past, memory) and what remains to.
For example, we can meet someone and feel an immediate sense of connection, familiarity, even comfort. Energetic resonance can play a part, but familiarity and resonance are both symptoms of some shared history. They’re often intertwined.
However, what can also come intertwined is what is unresolved (karma) with them. This can trigger a reaction, even as attraction. But this doesn’t mean we should have an intimate relationship with them. It may just show someone to have a conversation or three with. They can mirror what is unresolved and make it conscious, if we’re being conscious about this.
Locations can be similar. We can feel a sense of familiarity with a place we’ve never been to before (in this life). It’s a place with history for us. A close sense of being “home” may indicate something extra and unresolved there too. It’s not neutral.
Or our work obligations wind down and become a choice. When our work becomes unentangled, many shift to service or just enjoying what’s flows through life. It’s much easier to work in your dharma (purpose) when there aren’t karmic threads pulling you elsewhere.
Even family karma can wind down. Then those relationships simplify. Maybe. It takes two to tango.
When you get further along in life (and age) post-awakening, areas of life simplify and smooth out as the karma completes. There will still be random bits of trouble, but life becomes much more about genuine connection, being, and fulfilment.
This neutrality may sound dry and joyless, but it’s a falling away of hindrances to joy. For example, no specific place may feel like home when it’s all home, all a part of you. We can be at home anywhere. One can enjoy relationships without entanglement. We can express love without binding. Work can be in service to the whole. The joy that life is can flow, unhindered.
Davidya
Yeah, sensing a connection (person, place) is NOT necessarily a call to action, but an opportunity to observe, inquire, explore…and probably not in an impulsive, aggressive way, either. In my own case, a “conversation or three” could well have simplified things quite a bit, and several times, too! Maybe I’ll get it right — or at least better — next time. Thanks, D.
Agreed, George. Same here. And yet it may have been necessary to have the experience, to resolve the karma and do the learning. Funny thing is – we get wisdom from experience, often after we don’t need it anymore. 😅
That’s interesting, as I feel this very resonant. A lot is becoming neutral, including memories of intimate relationships in this life.
About 2 years ago, I had an online meeting with a Kundalini transmission, which also involved some sort of guidance and friendship. Our first meeting felt as if we had known each other for eons, yet there was a lot of attraction and impulsiveness.
A lot unresolved getting conscious indeed.
Being someone very calm and rarely triggered, I immediately thought about karma. There was a telepathic and energetic bond, and it took conscious effort for me to detach and maintain the friendship, there are still tensions. It was a lot to learn and felt so strange—completely contrary to all my other relationships, which are much more neutral. Very funny.
Hi Nancy
The neutrality is a good sign of healing and resolved karma. But it expands when whole arenas are like that. For most people, this won’t happen until later in life when the sprouted seeds are completing.
But yeah, I can relate. Learned that lesson earlier when I acted it out with someone. I had another where they balked at this sense of connection with some random guy.
The funnier part for me was after the heart opened, women started showing interest in me in ways they hadn’t before. But alas, I realized their attraction wasn’t actually to me. 😅
So beautiful, D. For me, joy is more joyfullness, a settled state of joy that flows under all the other states, even so-called negative ones.
(Yahoo changed its format on February 27. It’s taking me quite a while to figure out the new format. One aspect of it is that I’m not receiving your blog via email any more. I found the most recent one on FB and that lead me to this one and several others I missed. sigh…)
Hi Sharon
Yes, there is joy as a wave or emotion, and joy that is sustained. The latter is more the bliss body (causal/ celestial) becoming more present. It is the joy of being, an effect of the process of creation.
And yeah, on email. I discovered recently that my email service provider has dramatically changed its tiers of service without notice. While I appear to be grandfathered in, the quality of service has dropped dramatically. I’ll be upgrading to a much more expensive tier or migrating to a new provider soon, once I get to the part of my course where these decisions are made.