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Does anyone believe in karma ?
If one accumulates good karma, then he will get good outcome while existence.
If one accumulates bad karma, then it is contrary.
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Yes, i fully believe in it, and not just instant karma which many more people appear to believe, for example:
Baby smacks mum, turns round runs a few steps, falls on floor, tears…ever get the sense that the whole thing was engineered by the baby itself?
Alot of people see karma working here but then seem to think they are differen from the child…
Thats what lead me to think, we judge our own actions, we create and enforce our own karma…
I think it’s nonsense. I think we calibrate our notion of “good times” and “bad times” to the conditions we live in, and so - assuming things don’t suddenly get much better or much worse - it’s hardly surprising that there seems to be a balance.
I second the motion.
i don’t believe in the American notion of karma.
The Eastern notion, though, is much like sin. All karma is bad karma. It covers the part of the Universal that is the “self” and keeps it from escaping the cycle of death and rebirth. The object is to get no karma, not “good” karma.
I thought Karma just referred to basically the nature of events.
For example I get hit by a bus. - Oh that’s Karma
I find out that if I hadn’t have gotten hit by the bus I woulda likely been shot at the place I was going to by some guy who shot up the place I was going to - Oh that’s karma
You never know if the ‘bad’ things that happen to you are really ‘good’ or ‘bad’ they’re just events which are happening.
‘Good’ Karma is when you view an event as good, even if it may appear ‘bad’. Like… giving someone some money. It’s bad for you, cause you loose money but it’s good for the other person.
Or something like that… I dunno I’m confused now. Just wiki it.
I’ve always viewed it as people using the idea of karma to explain the good and bad things or events that they do not have any control over. That’s my brief view of the idea of karma, but I’d be open to listening to arguments on the matter.
-matt
Hi, everyboy
I’m a Buddhist and I think the word “karma” does not mean only KARMA(like KARMA SUTRA as someone understood) but also mean all activites that human done,
Such as :
good karma : Helping the blind to cross the road.
bad karma : Kick , hit or kill a dog.
yours faithfully
The way I understand the meaning of Karma is best relayed in a short story.
I wake up and am annoyed that my boyfriend’s hairy arm is resting on my head. I throw his arm off and think, why does he like to encroach on my space so much…and grumble my way to the kitchen to make coffee. There is vapour lock in the coffee machine…since I’m pissed off already, this pisses me off even more. I finally get the coffee made, and spill some on the floor because I’m so high strung. I bring the coffee to my guy, and he says Wait…there’s coffee on the bottom of the cup…let me get a napkin… I give an irritated sigh. He’s thinking, why is she being such a bitch, I just want to get a napkin…and says I don’t like coffee stains on the furniture
I say Well who do you think cleans the damn furniture? and so on and so on until one of us changes our attitude. I’ve created bad Karma for myself.
Kind thought leads to kind action leads to kindness shown back to you. A butterfly flaps it’s wings…
If you change yourself, you change your world.
Karma is not such a thing that can be instantly felt or seen. I believe karma is a bogus attempt to quantify the unexplained. Since there is only so much we can know, karma is like having your palm read. If you go and the person says you will find money and you find a quarter…the reader was right. If you do something bad and it catches up to you…its gotta be karma. Its just an external way to blame a ‘phenomenon’ for actions in this world.
well if we look at it statistically, if for every good thing you do somthing good is done to some one else, so if in general the ammount of good things you do increases, the ammount of good things as a whole increases so there is then a higher chance of good things happening to you.
Umm, isn’t that Kama Sutra?
Read the Bhagavad Gita, or some type of Vedic writing before assuming you know whether or not Karma is bunk. Or even that you know what it means…it sure isn’t the stereotype of “what comes around, goes around”. Far more complicated than that.
I belive in Karma, but not in a “cosmic” sense.
For instance
If I dress in a pink tootoo every day to school, I will probobly not get a girlfriend. Now, a pink tootoo, is neither a good or bad thing.
Say I punch a guy in the face, maybe later in life I am applying for a job, and that guy is the boss, I will probobly not get the job.
Karma = Cause and Effect.
Good Day!
-Harrison 
Silly.
If I dress in a pink tootoo every day to school, I will probably only get a girlfriend who appreciates me for my personality.
Say I punch a guy in the face, maybe later in life I am applying for a job, and that guy is the boss, who I find out turned his life around after my punch. Or, he’s not my boss but he’s applying for the same job, but he’s so angry at me he makes a scene and i get the job over him.
Cause and Effect = Not predictable. Not good or bad.
Karma is simply what is happening. The best allegory I have heard is thet it is like tossing a pebble into still water.The ripples from that act(ion) radiate out and touch all in the pool.
Karma explains the unknown? Well, yes if you fail to consider the consequences of any action. Saying unknown isn’t the same as saying unknowable. Shy’s personal example is very good. From one simple action there is a cascade of ensuing events. This is always the case and it is our choice to consider beforehand the consequences of our actions. Failure to look at the possible consequences of our actions may bring surprises. Karma is neither negative or positive. If our actions are meant to bring positive consequences, then it is likely that the results will be positive. The converse is also true.
To put it in the terms of an Idaho redneck, a good friend of mine summed it up this way; “We all make our own bullshit.” And that, my friends, is karma.
JT