Jogo-Noten

There is an important concept relating to karma which is called “Jogo-Noten” It means that even though we have some karmic destiny in our lives and live under the influence of karma, we can change our bad karma with good karma. Usually, we human beings think and make decisions by relying on information acquired with our five senses, such as hearing, seeing and feeling things. However, it seems that the direction of our lives is controlled by imperceptible spiritual forces, rather than perceptible physical forces. Karma is a representative of imperceptible spiritual forces. Perceptible physical forces are just the effects of the spiritual world, thus we cannot notice when we are making bad karma. When the harvest comes, we react, “Why do I have to experience such terrible things? I am quite innocent!” No one thinks they are guilty, and we always try to put the blame on others. If we take this way, our bad karma will never improve.

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