I need help understanding Karma. This is dense.

Rebirth made sense to me when I realized the interconnections of the material universe. The concept of being separate or other is entirely subjective, in reality, what we experience as existence is nothing more than the universe experiencing itself subjectively through short-lived autonomous beings such as ourselves, animals, trees, cells, and so on.

I am not 'I', but a collection of millions of cells working autonomously and cooperatively, the results of this harmony is what I experience as existence. Furthermore, these cells are self-sustaining repeating chemical reactions that are operating under the natural laws and forces of the universe. The process that gave rise to this experience is the same exact process that created the earth and the stars...

I am not 'I', but simply a process of experiences. I am not separate from other, and other is not separate from me.

I was not the combination of the sperm and the egg, I was the sperm and the egg before my conception. If I am the sperm in my father, I am my father. If I am the egg in my mother, I am my mother...and so down the chain to very birth of the universe, there is no separation.

My mother and father were the cause of my birth...if I am my mother and my father...then I am the cause of my own birth...If I am the cause of my own birth, the actions of two past lives are what made me, and the actions of the past lives that made my parents, and so on.

if my Karma is their Karma, then my Karma is your Karma...

How can all beings share the same Karma. If one being is liberated from Samsara, are we not all liberated?

How can separate Karma exist? is all life in the universe hanging on to their own pocket change of the same Karma.

If the universe(Samsara) can be considered a nation, and that nation has a billion dollars(Karma) circulating through it divided among every single living being in existence...

Wouldn't all of the Karma in Samsara need to be extinguished before escape of Samsara could be attained? Therefore making liberation from Samara impossible until all beings have been delivered from Karma...rebirth would continue to happen?

How can I individually extinguish the flame of my own Karma and experience liberation, If I as an individual separate from the rest of Samsaraic existence is only an illusion.

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