2nd April 2008

Sometimes I notice that many people have a very strange view on Karma and on past lives. Like I said the day before yesterday that I was told that one cannot help the poor because it is their Karma to live in misery. I do believe in good and bad Karma and I also believe in reincarnation. I believe that we have to create good Karma and also have to encourage and educate our children to do good and to be nice, honest and good.  However I do not believe in the fear of bad Karma and the guilt that is taught along with the fear. And when something happens wrong I do not believe in saying that it is because of what happened in a past life. On one hand Karma is often used as an excuse and nobody can control or check if it is true what people say that happened in their past life. On the other hand fear is created of making bad Karma in this life. But you can control this life, you can decide what to do. I was asked sometimes if I knew who I was in my past life and I answered that I am not interested in knowing that. I want to know who I am now, in presence. Why should I think about the past and worry about how much bad Karma I created when I could do so much good Karma in the presence, just in this life, in this moment. Why are people interested in knowing who they were? What advantage do you have from knowing this? I met people who are telling others all the time what they were in former lives. And who knows if this is true? Or if they just like to make up and tell stories? I do not like it when people are scared and afraid from this kind of talk and then want to know more and more about their past lives and even try to heal and change whatever they did then. And there are others who are offering this service of changing past lives. I think that you can do everything now and you should not think too much of the past. I may have said this before: Why do we kill the joy of the presence with regretting the past and worrying about the future? Please understand the power of the presence, the power of NOW. Unfortunately it is like this that the majority of people who think of the past cannot enjoy the moment. And the same with worries about the future. Good, it is normal to try and make yourself a security even in material way but please do not forget to enjoy the presence. Whatever will come, will come and we will face it. It will be for something good. Live in love and everything will be fine.