Karma Is a Dynamic Fluid System

Karma is not a mechanistic closed system. That's according to the teachings, not how it works. Everything is fixed because our present actions and responses are continuously feeding in to the stream of cause and effect. And our present actions influence and change the direction and the outcome of this unfolding stream. So for example, and this I think is very good news, we can cover unskillful actions with skillful ones. Unskillful acts have less power in producing their results in a field of purity. What are we choosing to do? Not with a self-judgment and not with a grimness of mind. This can be a tremendously creative, joyous endeavor because we're actually