Reincarnation is a word that most people associate with Eastern philosophies, and karma seems to go hand in hand with it. Some, especially buddhists, might say that rebirth is a more appropriate word as it it does not carry the weight of permanence as much as reincarnation. Whichever word one adopts, it has a suggestion of concreteness and materiality, whether such entities are in human forms or not.
But seldom will people dig deeper and enquire the true nature of rebirth. Rebirths are indeed rebirths of thoughts. Conversely, true surrender is also death, but not death in any physical sense. Rather, it is death of our incessant thoughts - thoughts that we cling onto and strongly identify with "I". It is through the cessation of thoughts that we can see through karma from which we derive cessation of suffering. You no longer are at its mercy and can make a conscious choice of playing along with it proactively or staying neutral by simply observing. In other words, when karma arrives at your door, you can see where it comes from and use it as an opportunity to understand the law of causality. When the roots are demystified, you can change the script, of your drama.
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