Karma plays for keeps. It takes no prisoners. It leaves no clues. It offers no hope at all. Even serious and deeply sincere spiritual aspirants run afoul of its webs and devices. Gurus and precious teachers can help but check out the track record available freely in all recorded spiritual literature: a few noble souls get the call and strut up the ladder of success to the angels and spirit realms; all other seekers get partial to lukewarm to rotten results.
Sound like a rigged game of chance at the casino? Your karma is yours whether you like it or not—whether you want it or not: lucky you. What to do? Anything other than a direct assault on karma will end botched up without a doubt.
To help answer this, let’s first cut even deeper to the core of human experience and consider yet again: "Why bother? Why bother with anything?" The endless details of "why" will come from your own unique experience. But the curt essential reason can simply be put as “avoid pain and chase happiness.” It really is that simple.
For whatever reason, evolution crafted humans as an energetic quilt knit of body, heart, mind and spirit. And by all telling, both scholarly and popular, the heart holds center stage.
The brain, though, translates this emotional charge into a binary system of "Yes—boy, that feels good;" and "No—yow, that’s awful." Neuroscience places the yes mostly in the frontal cortical regions as a goal-oriented system while the no resides in the limbic system as a pain-avoidance mechanism. So, all the endless nuances of our daily lives and hopes and dreams come down to digital ones and zeros—yes’s and no’s.