When you get what you have been sending out...slapped back at ya!!!
Not a damn thing until it runs over your dogma..
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Personally I think of karma like if you're a jackass eventually it's going to come back around and bite you in the ass.
In Hinduism and Buddhism: The sum of a person's actions in this and previous states of existence, viewed as deciding their fate in future existences.
(informal)
destiny or fate, following as effect from cause.
Colloquially, it basically means "what comes around goes around" and that those who do bad will get what they deserve in the end.
In Budhism, it's the constant cycle of birth, death, and re-birth, the goal being that you use and improve your life to reach higher levels of existence. Or, you could be a dick and come back as a cockroach. Do bad = Negative karma which holds you back from spiritual evolution, Do good = Good karma, maybe you'll come back as a rich, supermodel.. meh, what happens, happens..
It's determinalistic - one thing causes another -
Cause and Effect - You will reap what you sow.
Creation – We create what we focus upon.
Humility – Accept what is, let go of what was, and work for what will be.
Growth – We must change ourselves not others in order to grow
Responsibility - Our lives are a result of our actions.
Connection - Everything is connected and serves an equal purpose.
Focus – One cannot focus on good and bad at the same time.
Giving – The way we treat others proves our intentions.
Here and Now – All we really have is this moment.
Change – Life gives us the same lessons until we learn from them.
Patience and Reward – Good things come from hard work, faith, and determination.
Significance and Inspiration – We will always get out of life what we put into it.
"Something done", or "action.". In its original interpretation, karma is regarded more like a law of nature--like gravity, or the laws of thermodynamics--than a "belief" or a "philosophy. It closely resembles Newton's Third Law: for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
It's not about "keeping score", or "getting what you deserve". It's about everything you do (and think and feel) having an effect that's relational and proportional.
Wrong. all wrong. Karma is the momentum built by all the other actions taken that go in a specific way and tend to make following actions go in a similar direction. It is NOT some sort of retributive justice as some seem to imagine.
To me, Karma is the realization of true balance, some call it 'cause and effect'.
Karma is both a blessing and a curse, you make it yourself.
"Suffering is not holding you, you are holding suffering" - Buddha
Karma is my dog’s name. That’s it.
I always thought (Who`s There) would be a good name for a very protective dog.
It’s an imaginary concept that good happens to those who do good, and bad happens to those who do bad. Though I’m sure all of us know this is not the case, it’s none the less a better if we all live our lives as if it were true.
Nothing.
It's another fiction.
Like God, if it existed why was Hitler able to kill millions before it "came around" many years later?
Why are children raped and killed, many with their attackers never found let alone convicted?
Why are some born into abject poverty and others fabulous wealth?
If it existed, it'd be a piss poor way to do things.
I like your hard cold reality take on this, and I agree. Good things happen to good people. Bad things happen to good people. Bad things happen to bad people. Good things happen to bad people. It's a jumbled up mess of contradictions and inconsistencies. Only silly religions using subjective human thinking wired on the basis of cause and effect assumptions that cannot be proven come up with ideas like karma, because it makes us feel better, gives us a false sense of meaning. Our brains evolved to think like this.
Karma and Dharma are Vedic principles.
Karma is the account of what good and evil you have done. The theory is that goodness encourages more goodness, and evil instigates more evil. You personally can change this balance.
Dharma is the path to righteousness. Following dharma will result in good karma, but it's noted that even villains follow dharma and reach favoritable results. Dharma has already been set for your life, and it is up to you to follow it.