If we clear all our karma, then can we attain liberation?
At death, there are ultimately two possibilities: liberation or reincarnation. We normally assume that bad karma binds us while good karma liberates us. Therefore, the spiritual strategy appears simple: avoid bad actions, accumulate good karma, and eventually attain liberation. But as AiR’s philosophy says, good karma can become a “golden handcuff.” A handcuff made of gold may be valuable, but it is still a handcuff. The question during today’s Ask AiR session revealed an important distinction: karma is not a balance sheet that can simply be brought to zero. We cannot keep doing good deeds to cancel bad deeds and hope that one day the account will be closed. As long as we remain the doer, new karma continues to be created. Karma belongs to the BME...