What Exactly Is Karma?

I have read many things about Karma, but nowhere have I ever read about how to realize what Karma is without being told.

If you can't realize something without being told, then that thing is either false, or not significant to the truth. This is why I try to emphasize discovering the truths that I write about for yourself and never just take my – or anyone else's – word for it. The truths you discover may or may not correspond with what I write, but it does not matter if they do or not. The only thing that matters is that you can feel and experience the truth, so that it is real to you. It does not have to be real for me or anyone else; only for you.

Karma is real to me, but not in the same way that it is often expressed by other people. My experience of Karma is a real and direct experience, not something I have read somewhere.

Karma, as I experience it, transcends time. It is instantaneous and eternal at the same time. Not only do I receive back all the enrgy, both yin and yang, that I put into the universe, but I receive it back at the exact moment that I express it, and I receive it back for all of eternity also.

We can be (and are) forgiven for anything we do, but we can never escape the consequences! Karma forces us to live with the consequence of out actions for all of eternity, past and future. I suffer today for crimes that I will not commit until a hundred years from now. And I reap the joy of compassion that I expressed two thousand years ago at the same time.

This is the Karma I know through my direct experience. But even as such it is not a static belief unsubject to change. My experience of Karma could be different tomorrow, and I will let it be different if it wants to. Who am I to determine what Karma should be? I will let it be what it wants to be without judging it, but always heeding what it has to teach me.