Karma, Dharma, and the Creative Channel

I wanted to talk today about karma, dharma, and creation.

And it usually happens where in public discourse, these really big ideas tend to get flattened, and I think karma is definitely one of those concepts that is really misunderstood and flattened in the way we talk about it.

'Cause I think most people think of karma as punishment or what goes around comes around, or karma's a bitch.

There's very much this punitive, disciplinary, almost authoritative quality to this concept as we talk about it on a very surface level, but karma is so much more than that, and it relates to this idea of dharma.

They're energies.

So when these two ideas, these energies come into harmonious balance, this is when you truly start moving into your true original nature, your original divine spark, and are able to create the lives and the meaningful work that you're here to create.

So the words karma and dharma originate in Hinduism, and they are central to some of the oldest and most sophisticated spiritual texts that we have in human history, the Vedas, the Upanishads, and the Bhagavad Gita.

Buddhism has its own particular flavor of karma as it applies to their philosophy, but regardless, these are very ancient concepts that come from very ancient and sophisticated spiritual teachings.

And like I said, we see these ideas of karma and dharma flattened.

They're on bumper stickers, T-shirts, this idea of karma's a bitch.

It is so much more than that.

In fact, karma is not a system of some sort of cosmic punishment.