jorgelito, look at the karmic straitjacket this way: It can mean being forced to do something that will affect you for the rest of your life, and the only way you can deal with it is to counterbalance it with other actions. This happens all the time even if you don't believe in karma proper.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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