Understanding the psychological approach of karma is an essential thing. We might think that the karmic situation is entirely predestined, all the time. Dualistic fixation creates the momentum or the karma, at the beginning. There is a constant impulsive situation, a situation of fickleness. There are sparks of impulse, sparks of duality, sparks of dualistic fixation, happening all the time. Therefore, however, there are gaps in which no dualistic fixation develops. The whole process may seem to be one continuity, but it cannot be said to be an actual continuity, because the apparent continuity consists of small particles that make up the continuity. From that point of view, there is the possibility of transcending all karmic situations by relating with the gaps. Within the gaps, the dualistic psychological hang-up does not continue.

From The Future Is Open: Good Karma, Bad Karma, and Beyond Karma, pp 5-6.

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