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Happiness in Your Life - Book One: Karma

E-book, 1st edition 2012
Text by Doe Zantamata
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Contents

Overview: what Karma is and what it is nOt ............ 4

the twelve laws Of Karma 1- the Great law ........ 9
2- the law Of CreatiOn .............................................. 12
3- the law Of humility .............................................. 16
4 - the law Of GrOwth .............................................. 22
5- the law Of mirrOrs ............................................... 26
6- the law Of synChrOniCity ..................................... 35
7- the law Of direCtiOn and mOtives ....................... 37
8- the law Of willinGness ......................................... 42
9- the law Of Be here nOw....................................... 50
10- the law Of ChanGe .............................................. 53
11- the law Of PatienCe and reward ........................ 56
12- the law Of value and uPliftment ...................... 59
Karma Of relatiOnshiPs.............................................. 61
the Karma Of JudGement ........................................... 68
Karma and the wOrld ............................................... 71

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 overview: what Karma is and what it is not

The widest known definition of karma is What goes

around, comes around, or, what you do and say will come
back to you, good or bad. This is actually only one of the
twelve laws of karma, The Great Law (As you sow, so shall
you reap). People generally use it in reference to someone
acting in a really awful or really wonderful way. We let
go of some anger towards mean people knowing that their
karma will catch up to them. We root for those who always
seem to be doing many nice things for others.
However, karma is not a reward and punishment system.
Karma has a basis in understanding. If Person A does
something good for Person B, they will not suddenly win the
lottery. They will, however, be given a situation where they
are able to take on the perspective of that person that they
did the good thing for. Person Bs karma is also affected,
and they will be given a situation where they can choose to
take the role that Person A did before. Whether they choose
to do something good, or Pay it forward or not, is entirely
up to them, but will affect both their karma, and the person
they choose to do good for or not.
In this way, karma is a completely connected series of
events between ever growing numbers of people. If you
wanted to start a business when you were 25, and someone
lent you money to do so, this would be an example of an
event that may not catch up to you until years later. It may
be that your business took off and you were very successful,
then at the age of 55, someone approached you with their
business idea asking for money to help make it happen.
This is your turn to have the perspective of the person who
helped you 30 years before. Until that point, you may never

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have known or even thought about what their thoughts were

when youd asked years earlier. At this point, should you
choose to lend them money, youve instantly set the course
for them to become you in several years time. Should you
choose not to help them, they will remember years later
that you chose not to when they are approached. They may
then choose to do as you did, or to do as the person before
you did.
So from the outside, if a person is expecting to see any
kind of punishment in this case, they may be disappointed.
By not paying it forward though, Person B has not changed
anything for Person C. Person C, years later when in that
situation, may even be MORE inclined to help a Person D
with their business venture, because they KNOW how much
of a struggle they endured without help. Or, they may take
on an egotistic attitude that they pulled themselves up by
their own bootstraps, so why should they help anyone else.
This is not only in business deals, but in all sorts of
relationships. Cycles of parents and children go through
this in both positive and negative ways. When a child learns
from their parent, they believe 100% that this is how things
are. They may grow up believing things that just are not
true, and then unknowingly pass those things down to their
own children. If this is a bad cycle, such as alcoholism or
abuse, the adults always have the choice to break the cycle
when it comes to their own children.
Breaking a negative cycle will not just affect those
children, but all the next generations to come. What you
do today can affect people hundreds of years from now,
whether or not they even know of your name or that you
ever existed. Were much more powerful than most of us
realize, and our choices can affect hundreds, if not thousands

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 of people.
Have you ever seen a generational photo? Where one set
of great grandparents have all around them their children,
grandchildren, great grandchildren? If they had 4 children,
and each of those children had 3 children, and each of those
children had 2 children, there are now 24 people who are
affected by the choices they made and the things they taught
to their children. We can see how over hundreds of years
of family lineages, there is an ever increasing number of
people who pass down teachings just like heirlooms to the
next generations.
The start of this is awareness. Once an adult begins to
think about beliefs they have, and examine what effects they
have on themselves and others, they can begin to correct
beliefs and actions that give negative results. Often times,
parents will be a little shocked to hear themselves say to
their children things they used to hear as children. This is
awareness of karma, and it is in these moments that people
can reevaluate if those words they are passing on to the next
generation are true and good or not.
Good karma increases peoples connectedness and
collective good. Bad karma isolates people and results in a
more self centered collective.
Those who are Christians have no doubt heard, Do unto
others, as youd have done to you. This is also The Great
Law of karma, just worded differently. While this statement
is generally used to encourage people to be good to others,
the other meaning of it is often not realized. It means also
to treat yourself as well as youd treat other people. Dont
treat yourself worse than youd treat anyone else. When
you give and do all the time but never accept when others
try to give to you or do for you, youre depriving yourself

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of good things, and depriving others of being able to feel

the great way you do when you give.

in balance with giving with an open heart. Not receiving

good can also cause resentment.
For example, if you dont have much money but loan
someone money to pay their rent, and then they do not pay
you back but go out and buy a new sportscar, chances are
youll resent them for that. But it has nothing to do with
them. To them, youre a very kind and giving person. They
would be shocked to hear any negative comment come from
you, and may even ask why you loaned money to them when
you didnt have enough for yourself.
Then, what was thought to be good turns out to be
a negative experience for both you and that person. This
is doing unto yourself less than what you do for others.
Eventually, youll wonder why you do so much but have
nothing to show for it, when truth is, youve done that to
yourself. You wouldnt wish that on any person you care
about, so do not treat yourself so poorly.
Keeping the flow of giving and receiving good is
essential to building good karma, both for yourself, and for
all those you come into contact with, and all those they, in
turn, contact.
Lets move on to the 12 Laws of Karma. These Laws
have been formed and passed down over thousands of years,
and are thought to be of ancient Hindu origin. If you are
of one particular religion and are hesitant to read further,
there is nothing to fear. Each of the religions makes many
hundreds of mentions to these Laws of Karma, even if they
do not separate them into any set of Laws or call them by
that name. You may be reminded of certain passages from

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 religious scriptures when reading the Laws. Karma is
discussed in many religious and spiritual texts, including
The Bible, The Quran, Hindu and Buddhist writings. These
passages are not copying Hindu texts; they are just another
way to communicate the Universal Laws to all people. The
Hindus did not make them up either. They were just the
earliest known who have documented them.

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the twelve laws of Karma 1- the Great

law

The Great Law of Karma is the one that all of the others
basically boil down to. If you know no others but this one,
it can guide you to a better life through building good
karma. The others are situations or circumstances which
may interfere with this Law in its interpretation. If the
other Laws are not known or are misunderstood, people
may believe they are acting toward building good karma,
when in fact they are not.
The Great Law states, As you sow, so shall you reap.
You have complete control over all of your actions,
and absolutely no control over many of the consequences.
Eventually, however all of your good actions will lead to
good consequences.
Lets say youre a farmer, and youve bought a giant
parcel of land. You work the land every day, planting seeds,
watering, fertilizing, and of course waiting. The crops look
fantastic. The day before the harvest comes in, a tornado

for nothing. You may think that life is unfair, or that this
whole karma thing must be broken. This is because your
expectation of that particular circumstance was that you
would be rewarded with a bountiful crop for all of your
hard work. The important thing to do here is to get out of
that angry victim state of mind as soon as possible. Know
that karma does always come through. You may not be able
to see it today, you may not be able to realize it even in a
few months, but one day, you will know why something
that appeared terrible happened after you did everything

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 right. It will have sent you down a different path than the
one that you expected, and if you stay positive and believe
in the Law, your results will be even better than you could
have ever imagined.
So in the farmer story then, that the crops were destroyed.
Insurance paid the farmer 80% of what his crop would have
been worth at market value that day. Immediately, hes
saved an awful lot of time harvesting and transporting the
crops to take to sell.
Now hes probably a little disappointed hes only received
80%. He may feel he earned 100% and this is unfair.
Fast forward one week when he would have been at the
mill with all his crops. Little did he know, the day before,
another country reported enormous output of the same crop,
and the market value suddenly dropped to 50% of what it
was the week before.
You see in this scenario, the tornado ended up getting
him an extra 30% from insurance than what he would have
received in sale. The other farmers in the other country
still made lots of money from their crops as they were so
plentiful, so people still had more than enough to eat, and
the insurance company still got their premiums from all
the farmers, so the payout to the farmer with the tornado
damage did not hurt them at all.
If you do all you can, and think positively, know that
your good is on its way. If something doesnt seem good at
all, do not let it bring you down or convince you to do bad
instead. It may not come in the form, at the time, or from
the person you expected, but it will always come.
Sometimes, the only thing in your control is the way you
react to something. There was a story in the paper about a

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