Do you believe in Karma?

Question

If yes, why? If no, why not?

Give me an example from your life when you think there was Karma in the middle of all happenings - if you have.

If you believe in it, do you believe that we "import" sins from previous lives, or you think we are born "clean"?

I will not give best answers on this because probably it is a question of belief.
Let it go into voting.

I don't believe in Karma imported from previous lives cause that would be unfair to suffer for something I don't even remember or know about.
However, I believe in that common sense "what goes around, comes around" ... one should try to do good and not bad, if one wants good treatment from others - it is quite logical.
I also believe in destiny to some extent, but I would say 50-50. Some things are for us to shape them, other things are just coming and happening - the unpredictable variable..... the randomness... that is what I call predestined things.

Answer 1

there is karma, but there's no need to worry about what happened in your past lives, and if something bad happens to you it's not about payback for something you did. Sin and punishment is a primitive, superstitious concept.

Think good, good follows. Think evil, evil follows. This is karma.

Answer 2

I believe in Karma. I do not think that you import sins but I do not believe that we are born clean either. We are to live multiple lives until we get it right. When you have done badly in a past life the Karma goes with you into the next.

I believe that I didn't do things very well in my past lives. I was hit by a car when I was 13 while walking home from school (I was on the sidewalk). My husband and I have had lots of marital and money problems throughout our entire marriage. No matter how hard we try it seems that bad luck follows us. Most people would see it as bad luck. This is Karma.

Answer 3

In Karma concept, unhealthy karma can't be defeated by means of doing well karmas. The account for unhealthy karmas are separate. And the account of well karmas are separate. The results of karma can't be mitigated. It needs to be loved or suffered. There is a Sanskrit Sloka: "Avasyam anubhogthavyam kritham karma subha asubham; naa bhugtham ksheeyathe karma kalpa koti sathairapi". Meaning; We ought to endure the results of our karmas, if it is well or unhealthy. No karma gets erased by means of doing different deeds. Sometime we will have to think that we aren't doing and that nature is bringing this kind of situation to drive us to take a average direction to adopt that motion. There is a announcing in Mahanarayana Upanishad: "Kamokarsheet Manyurakarsheet Namo Namah". It is an complex factor, which I don't desire to provide an explanation for right here. Those who understand can have an understanding of.

Answer 4

I sort of do, but not entirely. My elderly neighbor had an accident and had to move into an assisted living place and her son was supposed to take care of her stuff. Instead, he took all of her antique things and sold them and threw away everything else. He didn't give her much of anything to take with her in the new place. Less than a year after her accident, he suddenly developed cancer and died not too soon after. I believe that was karma at work. Imported sins from previous lives would explain why some people seem to be so unlucky.

Answer 5

I at one time believed in karma, but have since been given a more logical explanation. Karma is instant, cause and affect happens right away. Because this existence is all about experience, there is no right or wrong, just the perception of it. We don't reincarnate we simultaneously incarnate. If your higher self requires the experience of what may be consider bad as killing someone, you are subject to what ever society places on the event, doesn't have anything to with the spiritual side. This existence is game where spirits gain new skills for higher levels of experiences.

Answer 6

Karma is one of the most misunderstood terms. People have mysticized it into almost a non-personal god or force -- a cosmic account where actions must play out and yield their appropriate consequences. Karma is just a fancy word for 'conditioning'. If I'm abused as a child then chances are this conditioning will result in negative repercussions as I conduct my life. It's metaphorically described as taking 'lifetimes' to overcome because we can see how it takes families generations to overcome negative cycles: a person is abused, doesn't get help and abuses his kid, and so on and so on. Only when our conditioning - what we've been taught, what's molded us - is looked at do we get over 'karma'. Karma disappears when the self drops away because -- once the whole concept of a conditioned, individual self goes away, there's no more thing that it applies to; however, even people who have an enlightenment experience (where they see the illusory nature of the self) still have old patterns and habits that play themselves out (e.g. they may still have embedded racist tendencies from years of racist teaching that may surprisingly pop up in their interaction with people).

Answer 7

Yea I have strong belief in Karma. What you do unto others, will get back to you someday, somehow.

See i'm a chinese, we do believe that if you mistreat your parents, ur kids will do the same to you. Don't try it. It's so true it's scary.

And i do believe we "import" sins from previous lives. If we are all born "clean", everybody would b so perfect, the world would b harmony, nobody would born poor or handicapped. If we have a good life this lifetime, it's something we did in the past that brought us this. I rarely blame God for what happens, everything's fair, every bad things that happen to me, it's bcuz of somethin i did.

Answer 8

"that's why you say nasty things to women" -- What do you mean by "nasty things"?? The thing you said about low self-esteem is a really good insight, but you're perception of how I treat women, in my opinion, is WAY OFF. Can you elaborate on that?

Yeah, I do believe in Karma. I think the good stuff that's happening to me is a result of the good I did for others in the past. The bad stuff is a result of the bad or negligent things I've done that have caused harm or disappointment to others.

Answer 9

I don't believe in karma. I don't believe in other lives as I don't believe in reincarnation. I can't believe that your life would be determined by a previous exsistence. I think their is a thing called fate and destiny. I think that one's life is already written for them by a higher power but only to the extent of the blessing of being given that life to make choices to follow paths of righteousness for HIS name sake.....I also believe that HE sets standards for chance meetings of people who are predestined to be together in this life. Only HE knows the real reason for this as there is no real reason for the love that HE allows us to feel for another when they just look into each others eyes and know........

Answer 10

My mother always instill in me that whatever we do it comes around in a circle. I try 2 do good so that if my children is in trouble i hope someone out there will do the same 4 them. A fortune teller once told me that i killed someone in a drunken brawl in my previous life. When i was born 2 this life my father passed away when i was only 6 mths old. So what do u believe?