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Karma and Subconscious.
Update: 26/05/2015
The conception of Karma is a deed or an action and a\r\nreaction which are accumulated from many past lives (including the acts of\r\nphysical body, speech and thought). These acts constitute power which is\r\ncontinuously consolidated and stored in one’s present life.
However, not all the karma occurs immediately in present\r\nlife, except for the most adequate and strongest karma. Weak or inappropriate\r\nkarma will not have any effect.
Psychologists claim that karma is subconscious.
It affects people’s mind, ability and rules over their\r\nbehaviour and lives.
In psychology, subconscious can’t be aware or\r\ncontrolled so sometime idea or thought is generated without reason which is\r\nmatter. Subconsciousness is perhaps a result from the past experience,\r\nknowledge from early to mature stage. Or subconscious is the result of frequent\r\nthinking or desire in one’s mind. It produces energy in brain and provides\r\ninformation without being affected by external or internal factors, but one’s\r\nmind often contact them, hinder them, which results subconsciousness
Therefore, we can conclude that karma results in\r\nsubconsciousness. Some of the past life’s karma was quite powerful which causes\r\nus to remember some particular things easily. Moreover, they leave deep\r\nimpression on us who forms new concepts and create implicit ideas.\r\nConsequently, it leads to the appearance of subconscious awareness. Although\r\nsubconsciousness results from karma, subconsciousness is changeable and easy\r\ncome into sight. Unlike subconscious, karma is more stable thus it will not\r\nalways appear in life. The more we learn about subconsciousness and karma the\r\nmore trouble occur then the deeper we will understand about them.
Similarly, people are afraid of ghost and the reasons are\r\nthey know nothing about ghosts, about its appearance or its trace. On the\r\ncontrary, they will not scare any more if ghost is visible to them. Hence, the\r\nmore we recognise and understand about subconscious, the more beneficence we\r\nhave.
For that reason, psychologists and doctors often experiment\r\nwith human’s subconscious. They even use hypnosis to learn more about what is\r\nsubconscious? What does it cause us to think to say or to do? After recognizing\r\nthe cause, subconscious’ power will lose its influence.
Our karmas is like the roots of weed. Weed roots should be\r\neradicated from their roots. If we only cut weed without destroying its\r\nroots. it will grow back quickly. But if we do so, weed will not be\r\nsupplied enough water and nutrition, it gradually withered.
Likewise, it is not certain that we will feel bad even if\r\nthere does bad karma exist. Because of malnutrition, karma will be vanished.\r\nWhenever people are facing with difficulty, they often seek for psychological\r\ntreatment. However, in Buddhism solving the root of the issue will annihilate\r\nthe whole problem. Therefore, it is better to apply Buddhism’s theory to solve\r\nthe matter then using psychological treatment or hypnosis.
HT. Thánh Nghiêm.
Translated into English by Thai Nhuoc Don.