Has Karma ever come back to you good or bad?

Question

What happen?

Answer 1

The time that sticks out most in my memory happened about a year ago. I was leaving a KFC with dinner for my family when a man came up to me asking for some money for gas. He told a long story about divorce and his kids and I had given him my last five bucks before the story started. A week later I went out karaoke-ing with some friends when a man tried to give me five dollars to sing a song for him. I kept telling him I didn't know it and that he didn't need to give me the money. But he was very insisting and some how I got through that song and ended up with five dollars. Life is an odd series of coincidences.

Answer 2

I've talked to my buddhist friend about this and he's as disappointed as I am with the way we humans want things to be magical. Karma is just a fancy word for conditioning. It's not some mystical force in the universe that keeps track of good and bad. When we say karma lasts lifetimes, it means that if I do something horrible to someone then it may affect them to where they do negative things to others (e.g. I abuse my kids and the cycle repeats). The Zen master at one of the monasteries I went to tries to get across the basic concept of Karma in this way, too, but people are stubborn and don't like it -- they want this weird, impersonal force in the universe instead of just what it is -- our psychological selves are affected both positively and negatively by actions (e.g. good karma would be going to therapy, working on yourself, doing a good deed which shows someone that we're all in this boat together -- it would positively condition us).

Answer 3

Karma doesn't really work like that. Contrary to what Hollywood tells you, karma is not something like a chain email where you will have 8 year of bad luck and your secret crush won't kiss you if you don't forward the damn thing to 87 of your closest friends. Karma transcends this life and can have an effect on many of your next lives. What happens to me now may be a result of any past action in any of my past lives. It may not. It is hard to tell.

Answer 4

I Being A Hindu Have Been Told By My Elders That If You Do Something Bad In This Life, It Will Affect Your Next Birth And You Shall Pay In Kind, But To Tell U The Truth I Aint Dead Yet, So I Don't Know What'z Instore For Me In My Next Birth.

Answer 5

What goes around comes around. And that goes for good things
too.
I was helping people with money when I didn't have any money.
I'm disabled. But for an example. I gave my last change away
to a friend. And the next morning I found a $20 on the street!
Most people don't appreciate the little things our Creator does for
them in a days time.

Answer 6

I call kharma coincidence... but since you asked. When i was growing up my dad was one of those small guys with a chip on his shoulder.. too tough by far. So tough in fact that he despised us, his own kids and would not only never consider buying us Xmas presents, actually seemed to grudge having to pay for food or give us shelter.
He died.
Fast forward to today, my woman's son(31) is one of those short guys with a chip on his shoulder, too tough by far. The difference is that this time I grudge giving him food or shelter.
Is life trying to teach me something here.. or were they both coincidentally just jerks? It is spooky though, just like my dad came back to haunt me from the other perspective... wow.

Answer 7

Yes and both. I could go on and on with examples but I won't. I believe you reap what you sow. Which is what the idea of karma is based on.

Answer 8

I dont believe in karma

Answer 9

Oh yes it has. Its kinda scary. I laughed at something that happen to this person and the same thing happened to me like 2 weeks later.

Answer 10

I don't believe in Karma but I do believe in reaping what we sow.