This is excellent, David. I just so happen to be up to my ears in karma these days as I’m taking a deep-dive class in foundational Buddhism. We are, this very week, in the midst of learning the model of the twelve nidanas, or links of dependent origination. That is the heart of explaining the model of how karma works in the Buddhist tradition.

I really like the way you are connecting this to the “fire-together-wire-together” perspective. In the model we’re learning, karma exhausts itself at the point where we feel it. At that instant, a gap is created and the choice is ours. Do we continue to “thirst” and “grasp” using the well-laid firing patterns of our past? Or do we choose to respond differently and shift the type of karma we create until we free ourselves sufficiently to be able to see things from an even more subtle level of mind?

Excellent! And, of course, I am not surprised to see you writing about this at this very time.