Karma + desire

[MonadicSpectrum]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, SillyPumpkins. I think there are already some great ideas in this thread.

I view karma as a momentum of manifestation and desire as the acceleration of manifestation. For example, let us say someone has built up a lot of karma around eating junk food. This karma makes it difficult to change the pattern of eating because it has acquired much momentum over the years like a train moving quickly in one direction. Simultaneously, someone might temporarily have a desire to eat healthier such as for a New Year Resolution. This will start to slow down the karma towards junk food. However, it will not be a fast change with as all the momentum must be first undone before one can move towards healthy eating. This person might give up the desire for healthy food due to slow progress and begin to desire junk food again rebuilding back the momentum that was undone and re-establishing the karmic momentum.

The desire may toggle between healthy food and junk food. If the opposite desires are of equal magnitude, then the karmic momentum will remain constant. If the desire for healthy food is held higher, then the momentum will change in that direction over time. If the desire for junk food is held higher, then the momentum will change in that direction over time. One can use will and faith to modify the desires based on the higher order goals one is seeking. I view desires as emotional drives while higher order goals are intellectual drives. That said, it is important to balance the emotional desires and intellectual goals with neither dominating the other.

Regarding the lack of desire, the only concern I would have with this is that one can fall into the sinkhole of indifference without desire as well as not going through the steps required to balance desire and instead suppressing desire. If one does not balance desire, it's likely to eventually overtake the self beyond the self's will and control similarly to how if you lose balance while walking, you will fall whether you want to or not.

Here is some advice from Ra regarding desire. I find the tool of the imagination especially helpful for exploring, accepting, understanding, and balancing those desires which are difficult to experience in physicality. A balanced set of desires will lead to balanced karma.

The proper role of the entity is in this density to experience all things desired, to then analyze, understand, and accept these experiences, distilling from them the love/light within them. Nothing shall be overcome. That which is not needed falls away.

The orientation develops due to analysis of desire. These desires become more and more distorted towards conscious application of love/light as the entity furnishes itself with distilled experience. We have found it to be inappropriate in the extreme to encourage the overcoming of any desires, except to suggest the imagination rather than the carrying out in the physical plane, as you call it, of those desires not consonant with the Law of One; this preserving the primal distortion of free will.

The reason it is unwise to overcome is that overcoming is an unbalanced action creating difficulties in balancing in the time/space continuum. Overcoming thus creates the further environment for holding onto that which apparently has been overcome.

All things are acceptable in the proper time for each entity, and in experiencing, in understanding, in accepting, in then sharing with other-selves, the appropriate description shall be moving away from distortions of one kind to distortions of another which may be more consonant with the Law of One.

It is, shall we say, a shortcut to simply ignore or overcome any desire. It must instead be understood and accepted. This takes patience and experience which can be analyzed with care, with compassion for self and for other-self.

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