KARMIC ASTROLOGY BOOKS  MARTIN SCHULMAN

In my studies on Buddhism, I have noticed one thing that seems to pervade all writing on the subject. The author gets up to a point of fulflling most historical or factual information (easily look-upable) and then shys away from describing to or helping the reader understand the very essence of the Buddhist way, often by saying it cannot be written. It has to be experienced.

Of course Buddhism has to be experienced, but what is the experience? What does one have to do or look for? What is the essence of meaning that one seeks if following this way of life?

Buddhism seeks to resolve opposites by accepting their existence. Contrary to how most people think, it does not seek to eliminate opposing points of view in order to seek harmony through a single one-minded viewpoint. Although this would seem like the most desirable thing to do, Buddhism recognizes the dualities in the world and the fact that they cannot necessarily be eliminated.

Thus, the understanding that a coin only exsits if it has both sides. There cannot be yin without yang. We would never know what day is like if we did not have night. This kind of thinking helps to accept opposites in order to gain a more objective view of life.

We sometimes see arguments that man is a higher being than woman. The Buddhist way is to understand the need for both, for without either performing their function there would be no whole.

Life is duality. All things have causes and effects, and all things are part of a greater whole which they are forever having an effect on and which also effects them. This is the eternal oneness of the universe. And, by accepting dualities and differences, we get to experience the whole, the universal oneness of it all.

The message might well be to deal with life in its ever-becoming purpose, rather than fight with it for a one-sided incomplete view of the whole. Only in this way, does it become possible to resolve karmic imbalances from past lives.

Much of my book-writing might show tones of Buddhist influence, especially in passages of how to deal with karmic problems.The western-world consciousness that is my background (in this life), is only part of the picture. The work of the great Gautama Buddha has laid the foundation to perceive other layers to life's ever unfolding tapestry, and through this we gradually come to realize the oneness that binds all together.

Buddhist undercurrents and their relation to Karma, while in all of the Martin Schulman Books, is most pronounced in his first work,