Getting Off Of The Karmic Wheel

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Can you please speak about getting off the wheel of reincarnation as the driving force of Buddhism. 

Hilarion: It is a difficult matter for Christians, Muslims and Jews to fully appreciate and understand as if lurking below the surface. Wouldn’t you get bored in heaven? If you let go of this world and when you die you move to this other place where you have everything. You have all of the most beautiful, most wondrous, joyous attributes you could ever understand heaven to be. Wouldn’t you eventually see yourself getting bored? Wouldn’t you see yourself eventually wanting something else? It is that wanting that was recognized as the beginning point of suffering. That is the place from which Buddhism has made observation and understanding. But, other non-Christian Muslim religions have recognized other attributes drawing the consciousness over and over into incarnating into the world. 

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Our point of view on it is a little different. After all, not being in a physical body and recognizing how people incarnate over and over and over and seeing that not as a religious attribute but as a fact. Of course, there’s a great deal of evidence.

There are many books looking at the past lives of children and how they re-create various things associated with their past lives. The most common and most interesting being birthmarks. We are not going to try by either of these techniques (looking at boredom or looking at birthmarks) as ways of helping you understand the wheel of karma. It is a personal understanding that you come to entirely on your own. 

But, the interesting thing about it is that we notice that because you do incarnate over and over (it is just a fact). You will eventually come to appreciate and see what this means. The whole point of it, the “why” of it becomes that which you desire to understand and this draws you inevitably into some religion, or some religion with an appreciation of past lives

shows up as Hinduism, as Shinto Buddhism or Mahayana Buddhism, or Tibetan Buddhism or as the Dao and the deeper understanding of energy itself and in which way you eventually come to this realization you recognize that you have pretty much, “done it all,” and that really the most interesting things that are going to happen in the future are just a repeat in some form perhaps with a new guise or new color or new understanding of that which has come before. 

Then you come to make a choice. That choice can be one of the willingness to let it go at the most profound level. What is the great lesson of letting go but that? A complete letting go of all aspects of being itself. Oftentimes, when you come close to that you recognize that your own understanding, your own gifts, your own awareness, the things that you have learned could be helpful to others. 

This is the other component of Buddhism that you recognize it isn’t quite time yet to let go of that karmic wheel of constant reincarnating because you are here to do some business where it assists others. Because there is something to be learned from that, that is far beyond technology and far beyond all aspects of beingness to the core of love and its co-ordination with all of the universal laws and the understanding of this goes deep enough that you want to do it a little bit more. 

We mention this because oftentimes as you approach this stepping off of the karmic wheel you pause for a moment, you look at the others who are within this and you are profoundly moved to help. This is true for what is sometimes termed, “lightworkers,” the beings on your planet who have sensed that they could choose this to be their last lifetime if they wanted to. They really want the opportunity to assist others and do so in a truly meaningful way. Sometimes they will engage in various helping professions to do this but sometimes it is just a feeling that they have. It is important to realize this as very common towards the end of the karmic wheel but that which is always your choice. Just as the law of permanence is that which your consciousness allows that to be permanent it is that which allows it to finally dissolve and be impermanent, to release, to let go.

Because it is such a personal journey in some ways there is nothing that can be said about it except to observe it. Yet, many individuals hearing our voice, have indeed contemplated, if not in this life, but the last intermissive (before they came into this life) why they would choose to incarnate again. It is a profound and important question that only you can answer for yourself personally. 

December 21, 2025

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