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10% Happier with Dan Harris
The book explores karma through a naturalistic lens, likening it to a billiards game where our choices and actions, influenced by our past and present conditions, affect our future.
It's called Awakening from the Daydream. And it's about what karma is. But it is a cascade of causes and conditions resulting in this present moment being set up exactly the way it is. I use the analo...
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The book explores karma through a naturalistic lens, likening it to a billiards game where our choices and actions, influenced by our past and present conditions, affect our future.
It's called Awakening from the Daydream. And it's about what karma is. But it is a cascade of causes and conditions resulting in this present moment being set up exactly the way it is. I use the analogy of a billiards game.
So there's a lay on the table when you pick up the cue, and you can't really change that unless you're cheating.
You get the other person to look the other way, you know. But now you have a shot. You have a clean shot. And you call the shot, and depending on how much skill you have, how much mental acuity you've developed, physical acuity, you can affect that shot a lot of different ways, actually. You have a lot of potency in that moment.
If you get overwhelmed by emotional upheavals that are conditioned into you, your basic habitual patterns, the shot is going to be governed by the previous conditions as opposed to having a clean shot. So that's what we're trying to get our mind clean so we can get a clean shot with the existing conditions.
So anyway, does that gumbo of words make any sense to you?