Why Do We Do What We Do?

The Karma of old has conditioned us to be prone to do certain things in a very certain way. If we are ignorant of the conditioning imposed on us by past Karma, we keep doing it, and that habit becomes our future Karma for the later part of this life and the next life; that's how the cyclic Karma keeps going on from one lifeto the next, due to continuing ignorance. Once we practice mindfulness, the ignorance is shattered,and the habits are changed, and the cycle of Karma is broken.~ Desmond Chiong