[TaliaJack]

To Balgore, who said: "Anyway, nowheat, your comments bring me to this question: Can a human really 'surpass' beyond the effects of karma? Even if you are aware of every action/intention, the implications and results of them, etc... We always still contribute karma to the world, are we not? Even just going to the bathroom, and using toilet paper, which a tree had to die and be processed to make... aren't our actions causing effects indirectly all the time, simply by existing... no? "

Karma isn't impact on others. You don't have responsibility for their reaction to you. It is just your responsibility to have your intentions come from a selfless place. The theory of karma doesn't say that when you are no longer producing karma, no one will ever get mad at you, that you will never have a negative impact on anyone, or even that nothing bad will ever happen to you, or that you will be clairvoyant and be able to do the absolutely right thing in every situation. It doesn't say that the results of your actions will always turn out to be what you might hope they would be.

The *only* thing karma is talking about is whether we can get a really good grip on why we do what we do and thereby stop doing things out of ignorance (a particular ignorance, not just any old ignorance).

As for whether I think it is possible or not, theoretically, it seems doable. I've already caught teensy tiny actions of mine that don't come from self-interest, and had moments when I just took in life and didn't make every moment about *me*. Knowing that it's possible to do that in microscopic amounts should mean that with enough practice we can do it more and more until we've gotten really good at it. And at least one person I trust has said that he has managed the trick.

But I have no direct experience with being at the far end of the learning curve, so I can't say for sure.