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Chögyam Trungpa

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Using Karma as a Path

My purpose in discussing karma is to present a way of using karma as a path, rather than regarding it as something that we should struggle with, whether for or against. So instead of trying to cultivate karma or trying to diminish its force, we can use the karmic situation as a path.

From The Future Is Open: Good Karma, Bad Karma, and Beyond Karma, page 117.

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