what are your view on Karma?
84500
no IT sucks, but umm comes around goes around
674365
dont do anything... as hard as it may be... just know that life has its way of getting back at people... what goes around will come around... thats the way karma works...
685172
its an indian concept as far as I know, \n\nbasically karma is like a collection of energy which you project into the universe, that energy is created by you and is eventually returned to you in the form of events which will happen in your life.  i.e. if you do good , good things happen to you, if you do bad, bad things happen to you.
457144
Ah karma. Nice thought, doesn't hold up in experimentation. It's kind of like that buttered toast falling butter side down thing. We think it always does but if you test objectively its 50/50. Life is ran through our personal filter, we see it one way because we want to, but if you look at objectively its not always that way. That's why there are happy rich people who are jerks and good poor folks starving in this world. Life isn't fair no matter how much we want it to be.
607934
YES! I try to help anyone when ever it is feasible.I have been that homeless person many years ago, and if it wasn't for people's kindness and generosity, I could still very well be there today. It's karma to help people whenever it is in your power to do so.
1145524
Aww! How sad...such an old oak, murdered.\nIt's not really bad 'Karma', but bad practice. But, I suppose in this 'civilised society', things like that just get in the way of us raping the Earth for our conveniences...\n\n(I'm not getting at you, by the way...I just really think that's a sad loss.)
1000441
Karma - East meets West.
1062124
Karma is based on the principles of cause and effect. The belief is that one has to continually pay for one's wrongdoings through suffering until the debt for those wrongdoings are paid. According to this belief system, the individual may even have to pay over lifetimes for debts that cannot be consciously remembered from one lifetime to another. Of course, the belief in reincarnation has to be held in order to support this thinking.\n\nFate is a belief in a predetermined destiny that is inexplicably and inescapably yours. There is nothing you can do but to accept your fate in life. This fate is determined by a higher power or higher authority (most would say God) that has planned everything out for everyone.\n\nI do not believe in either of these ideas. I support the idea that we each determine our own destiny by recognizing what our individual beliefs are about any circumstance, condition, experience or aspect of our life. When we understand how we create our own destiny by our own conscious thinking, we free ourselves to experience what we choose, when we choose to, in the exact way that we choose. There is nothing to limit, bind or punish us except for beliefs in limited ideas or the belief in a power outside of ourselves, which capriciously blesses or curses us for a host of unknown reasons. I do believe in Cause and Effect to the extent that we (by our own thinking and beliefs) are Cause (the Creative Power) back of every Effect (condition, circumstance, or experience) in our lives.
310268
Newton was talking about physical actions. Of course a lot of people believe in Karma...
37939
No. The doctrine of Karma is amoral. It perpetuates evil. Consider this. A man rapes a women, then dies having never been caught. Karma dictates that he should be reincarnated as a woman who is later raped. Great. Another rapist is created to satisfy Karma. \nNo, the Bible makes it very clear in Hebrews 9:27\n"It is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment."\nAll will receive their reward. What kind of reward is up to them. Those who say they believe the Bible should not believe in Karma.
546382
In Buddhism, you are taught that the only person who can redeem yourself is you.  If you believe in Karma, a good way to think of it is like this:  In the Buddhist concept of Rebirth, we have always been here, and we have always been 'rebirthing' from lifetime to lifetime, among different forms, planes, etc.  In the thousands upon thousands of lifetimes, we have done some amazing things!  But we have also done some amazingly bad things.  The only thing you bring with you between these births is your Karma.  Your Karma will help (not entirely guide, but *help*) determine what kind of life you'll have here.  But remember, the life you lead is also dependant on all the decisions you make within this lifetime as well - so if you examine what you do, how you choose, and why you choose things as you do, you can see the effect your choices have on your life.\n\nNext time you are given a choice in life, examine why you are making the decisions you make - who will benefit? You?  Will it hurt you? What about someone else? What about the planet?  Your intentions will color every decision you make, and the after effects of your decisions will ripple out, and effect all of us.
1060172
nirvana is known as the hindu heaven, rebirth is basically reincarnation which is also a hindu beleif, i dunno about karma though, srry.
527770
I believe in reincarnation. Reincarnation is basically a system like weather. When plants die in the fall/winter they are renewed, or reborn in the spring/summer. Many people (including me) believe in karma, and that it affects what your future life will be like... For example, if you were a murderer in this life, in the next life you may not be as happy. If you were like Ghandi in this life, you would be very rich in spirit in the next life. It's complicated, but there is evidence for it. Google it.
619638
How would you feel if you were the one that got dumped and stiffed for a couple of bucks? I got one thing to say "karma".\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\ni
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There are four laws of karma:\n1. Karma is fixed.\n2. Karma increases.\n3. Karmic results are only experienced by one who created the cause for that experience.\n4. Karmic seeds do not lose their potency of their own accord.\n\nRegarding #2 - both positive and negative karmic results increase in potency unless they are obstructed. Positive results can be obstructed by anger, and other negative actions. Negative results can be obstructed through the directed positive actions of our Dharma practice, the Four Opponent Powers and so forth.\n\nRegarding #4 - 'of their own accord' means that unless we intervene with directed positive Dharma actions to purify and transform negative actions, those actions will never lose potency. They will perpetually have the power to bring us suffering.\n\nWe carry the karmic seeds of our actions around with us until we transform (purify) them, or until they meet the right causes and conditions to ripen. It is said that most of the karma that we create in this lifetime will ripen in future.\n\nBuddhist do not believe in an eternal soul. It is the mind-stream, not the soul, which goes through rebirth and cycles in existence. The mind-stream is ever-changing though, like the Ganges River.\n\nThe Buddha stated three things which are misunderstandings about karma ---that everything:\n1) Is here due to no reason\n2) Is the creation of a god\n3) Is completely controlled by karma (so it becomes like a fate).\n\nWe can go on and on about how people suffer, whether someone is born without an arm or whether one is persecuted during a war or holocaust. I think the misunderstanding is the person who asked you the question is assuming that karma is a fate system. Karma is not a fate system.\n\nKarma plants a seed, and when certain conditions are around, that karmic seed ripens. Your life is not predetermined.\n\nIf one assumes any of those "three misunderstandings" the question seems right. If everything is here due to no reason, it would be a very sad that someone is born in a very bad condition. If everything is due to a God's creation, it is horrible that God allowed this to take place and allowed such bad conditions to take place. If everything is a fate system, then we are merely robots who have not much control over the outcome of anything.\n\nBut Buddha taught none of these, and karma does not fall into these misunderstandings. The seed for the particular karma was present and was able to ripen under the conditions (such as an unhealthy maternity)... not because it was predetermined!
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Desire is wrong translation of Karmafal(fruit of karma). \n\nGeeta says "do your Karma/duty as you can do best without expecting fruits for granted. Believe in God and he will reward you as he thinks fit for you" .\n\nBecause we can not controle the results only our deeds. So do it and you will have the satisfaction that you did your best.\n\nOff course it is not that easy to follow, otherwise all of us already gotten Moksha.;)
1075733
I like the idea of karma and of people getting what is owed to them.