Do you believe in karma?

[de Burgh II]

I know that there is the simplistic saying of karma, "what goes around comes around" etc., but I get a feeling there is more that meets the eye to karma.
Such as whatever course of action you take will almost always have a consequence regardless if it maybe either positive or negative etc. Or would you say that there really isn't anything to these kinds of things; but simply happens because it does. What I mean by this is that bad and good things happen to "good" people and vice versa with "bad" people because that is simply how life is, neither good nor bad, simply the nature of life in its purest form.


Nevertheless its time for you to decide.

Feel free to give your own interpretation of your own notions, version of karma if you will, etc.

P.S. You can vote multiple times if you want to of course.

[arcticwolf]

In the European culture karma is understood as an effect of actions, intentional or not.

In Buddhism karma is intent, that part of the mind which is the reason the action originates. All intentional action is karma, none of the non-intentional is. For instance, you give somebody "free" sample of something drugs your product, it does not really matter, your intention comes from your own greed, you want them hooked on whatever you are selling, so you can profit, so you can go after whatever shit you lust after.

Plus if you believe you live once and that's it, you die, and there is nothing, finito, then karma is hard to understand, because when you die it seems like you got away with some shit.

Karma is the easiest to understand as an ethical law of cause and effect, that is attached to a particular stream of ever changing processes, known to us as an entity, namely a being.

Believing in it is the wrong way to go about it, set your mind into observant mode and watch. There is no Big Ghost in the sky, that can do it for you, but you yourself have the ability to see reality directly, everybody inherently does.

The thing is, is your mind fed up playing games, being stupid, developed enough for the task of discovery?

Oh fuck, tf do I care! I'm busy!

[Graham]

I believe in Korma.


Karma, nah.

[TheBlondeSalad]

Nope. Some of the biggest pricks have all the luck.

[Melina]

No. I believe it was a fairy tale just like soap operas to make people believe the bad guy always loses while the good guy always wins. Those are one of the biggest fantasies I have ever heard of. In the real world the more of an asshole you are here the more you are respected and promoted. If you are a good guy you will most likely get screwed over by everyone.

[Armand_Duval]

I agree with what you make has consecuences in life, both negative and positive. Call it Karma, call it whatever you want but if you behave as a jerk, sooner or later you'll have what you deserve coming.

Now it is also true that sometimes bad things happen to good people and I have also seen good things happening to jerks who didn't deserve them,

For jerks who do wrong and still seem to get away with it, their time will come I am sure of it.

What about good and innocent people who suffer -apparently with no reason- the effects of bad things?. I'm afraid I dont have a precise answer for that. I think it is due to random facts that just happen to take place and affect the wrong people.

[Armand_Duval]

No. I believe it was a fairy tale just like soap operas to make people believe the bad guy always loses while the good guy always wins. Those are one of the biggest fantasies I have ever heard of. In the real world the more of an asshole you are here the more you are respected and promoted. If you are a good guy you will most likely get screwed over by everyone.

Most of them get what they deserve, Have you heard the said: You'll harvest what you have seeded?.

[Hevo]

Actually Karma literally means "action" or "doing". vipāka is the result of the deed.

[Ultra]

Actually Karma literally means "action" or "doing". vipāka is the result of the deed.

Nice to know bro, thanks.

[Yaroslav]

No.