08/26/2025
Expanded interpretation;
1. The Ego as the Container of Karma
Hawkins describes the ego not only as the source of karma but also as the repository.
This means:
• The ego generates karma through its attachments, aversions, judgments, and identifications.
• It also stores karma — all the unresolved energies, patterns, and consequences of past actions remain bound up in the ego’s structure.
In this sense, karma does not exist independently; it exists because the ego identifies with a separate self who is the “doer.”
2. Ego and Karma as One
Hawkins emphasizes that the ego and karma are inseparable:
• The ego is essentially the accumulation of karmic imprints.
• Every wound, pride, fear, and story the ego clings to is a karmic thread binding us to cycles of suffering.
• Without ego, karma dissolves — because there is no “self” left to accumulate or carry it forward.
This is why deep spiritual traditions (Advaita Vedanta, Buddhism, Hawkins’ own Map of Consciousness) all teach that transcending the ego is also transcending karma.
3. Why This is Important
Hawkins warns that it is “very important” to realize this, because:
• Many people try to resolve karma as if it were an external force, but in truth, it is not separate from their own identity.
• Healing, forgiveness, and surrender dissolve karma precisely because they loosen the ego’s grip.
• Enlightenment is not about “working off” karma endlessly but about seeing through the illusion of the ego entirely.
4. Practical Application
• Every time you notice yourself defending, clinging, or resenting, you are in the territory of ego—and therefore reinforcing karma.
• Each act of surrender, humility, or forgiveness weakens the ego and simultaneously dissolves karma.
• By focusing on dissolving egoic identification (through practices like letting go, meditation, prayer, or service), one naturally ends the karmic cycle.
✨ In essence: Dr. Hawkins is teaching that karma is not some external law chasing us—it is woven into the very fabric of ego. To transcend karma is to transcend ego itself.
