Karma operates under the Law of Cause and Effect. Distortions abound about this concept. Karma is neither good nor bad. It is not punishment.
Your karma is conditioned by your thoughts and motives. If you are living a selfless life, you are not engendering new karma. If you refuse someone help for fear of complicating your karma, you will indeed create new karma. For who can tell when or with whom you are paying an old debt?
“And he who forbears to aid his brother shall not draw the thorn from his own foot,” said St. Sergius.
Only a Master knows when a helping hand should be withheld.
The teaching of Living Ethics advises co-measurement and goalfitness in all things.
Would you not take a knife out of the hand of a child? Do you kick someone when he is down?
We are either creating karmic debt or paying off karmic debt. Paying our debts does not mean we no longer live under the Law of Cause and Effect. But our future experiences will bear less sting.
Do not fear new karma but strive to improve its quality. All activity in Cosmos is commensurate; therefore insignificant karma will bear insignificant results. Bearing the burden of great responsibility brings great achievements. Look at the lives of Christ and Joan of Arc.
Those who cannot withstand the test of “easy” karma will seldom rise to the next level of self-perfection.
If we thought less of karma and more about perfecting ourselves: the words we speak, the criticisms we think, the negative emotions we feel, then will humanity create a magnetic field that either attracts or repels all possibilities.
Thought and motive weave our aura by which we break out of the feedback loop of karma.
