We are like fish in an ocean of karma. It is in us. It is around us. There is nothing we sense or think or feel that is not saturated in karma.

There is one radical change that can happen in this situation. The one who experiences karma can dissolve. This change ends suffering and dissatisfaction, but it is unlikely to happen spontaneously. There are three karmic fields, that when cultivated carefully, lead to this dissolution. Thoughts, words, actions.

For most of us, most of the time, there is no space between cause and effect with our thinking, our speaking, and our actions. To make this radical change, we must open up space between cause and effect so the magic of choice can enter, and redirect causes into new effects.

We see our thoughts and their effects and choose thoughts that don’t have the effects of causing suffering to ourselves, others or our world.

We see the words we are about to speak and know their effects. Instead, we choose words (or silence) that heal rather than hurt.

We notice our actions we are about to move into. We refrain from those that deepen our entanglement with illusion. We instead choose actions that support our efforts to be free.

Don’t believe any of it.

It’s not another night or another day.

It’s not another May or June.

It’s not another weekend or another Monday.

It’s not another year, or decade or century.

All of these measures of time are illusions that put us to sleep.

Every single moment is fresh, new, unique. It never repeats in any way.

It’s not another breath – it’s this breath!

There is nothing we put our eyes on that is not fresh and new. It is all changing.

Some things as fast as a chirping bird sound

Others as slow as the rise and fall of a mountain.

And in our internal experience – there have never been two identical moments.

You can try to think you are the same person you were at some point in the past – but it wouldn’t be true.

Don’t back off from the unknown elements of the Now. Embrace the unpredictability, the possibilities.

Live fully alive.

Don’t pretend you’ve done this before. Seen this before. Felt this way before.

Let’s get real.

Written on approximate universal date 5,029,492,544,323.9000