That's Karma, Man! What Karma Really Means

About the book

Karma is not an entity with a little notebook recording your sins. It is cause and effect, and cause and effect can be managed.

Few Buddhist words have been treated as badly as this one. It became an internet joke, a veiled threat, a consolation for anyone waiting for the universe to send someone else the bill. None of those uses has anything to do with what the tradition actually describes.

That's Karma, Man! is the most direct and unceremonious book in the catalogue. Karma here is not destiny or cosmic punishment: it is consequence. And consequence has an enormous advantage over destiny: it can be managed. What you plant today largely defines the field of choices available tomorrow.

The book first dismantles the folklore (revenge-karma, merit-karma, karma as an excuse not to act) and then builds a usable reading: how to spot the patterns you keep feeding, how to interrupt a cycle before it closes again, how to choose actions by the result they produce rather than the intention you swear you had.

With the same depth and substance as the other volumes, but delivered with sharp irreverence and directness: written for anyone who wants to put the real logic of cause and effect to work without moralistic theater.