EXPLORING KARMA 2

I have been reading a lot of text about dreams and dreaming lately. These stem from Buddhist, Hindu and Western knowledge on the subject. Naturally, I have also been contemplating dreams and dreaming from my own viewpoint.

I understand how prophetic dreams can occur. A Buddha can see the totality of karmic workings in all beings, not only some of his own, but 'we' cannot totally see even our own, even if we can see sometime see glimpses of karmic workings.

However, inside our 'deepest places' lies our very own book of karma - being written and reviewed every few moments of our life - as we do a deed, say a word, think a thought - and we can partially read these karmic workings in relation to our own lives through our dreaming.

It is as if we can read tiny portions of what we have done to ourselves - or will do to ourselves - karmically. A way to learn in advance and maybe not do what we should not do, or to see why something that lays ahead will happen to us - not just that it will.

(I have written a complete article on this subject, for anybody who is interested, you can view the article at: https://www.triond.com/users/madeliaette )