what is karma?

Answer 1

A Boy George song....no wait.

Answer 2

The mentality that what goes around comes around.

If you do bad things, bad things will happen to you, if you do good things, good things will happen to you.

It is mentioned primarily in the Hindu and Buddhist religions.

In Hinduism, karma is coupled with reincarnation, the belief that after you die you are born again as a new being with no memory of your previous life, and dharma, the belief that the social standing you are in is the social standing you were meant to be in and you must obey all of the society's rules to stay in that standing.

Buddhism does not believe in dharma, but do believe in reincarnation.

Reincarnation works with karma because this means that karma does not have to take effect in your life time, you could be rewarded or punished for things you did in your past life.

Dharma works with karma, not only because they rhyme, but because the social standing you are born in is influenced by karma, therefore influencing people to be good in this life to be born into a better social standing in the next.

Like monotheistic religions have a heaven and a hell to encourage good-doers and discourage evil-doers, Hinduism and Buddhism has karma. It encourages people to do good and help others and not complain about their lives. Karma helps many people live their lives happily and in peace. The high amount of poverty striken people in India are often comforted by the ideas of dharma, karma and reincarnation, makign it possible for the country to work the way it does.

Answer 3

Karma is the return of energy that you give out in this life and previous ones. In other words ugly comes back at ya.

Answer 4

Karma is a natural law of mental action. Like Newtons third law, but on a cognitive level.

All mental actions have preceding actions. Your current mental actions will cause future mental actions.

Answer 5

"Karma (Sanskrit: कर्म from the root kṛ, "to do") is a word of ancient origin meaning action or activity and its subsequent results (also called karma-phala, "the fruits of action"). It is commonly understood as a term to denote the entire cycle of cause and effect as described in the philosophies of a number of Dharmic Religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism.

Karma is a sum of all that an individual has done, is currently doing and will do. Individuals go through certain processes and accompanying experiences throughout their lives which they have chosen, and those would be based on the results of their own creations: "karma". Karma is not about retribution, vengeance, punishment or reward. Karma simply deals with what is. The effects of all deeds actively create past, present and future experiences, thus making one responsible for one's own life, and the pain and joy it brings to others. In religions that incorporate reincarnation, karma extends through one's present life and all past and future lives as well.

Throughout this process, many see God as playing some kind of role, for example, as the dispenser of the fruits of karma[1]. Other Hindus consider the natural laws of causation sufficient to explain the effects of karma.[2][3][4] Some interpretations of the Bhagavad Gita [5] suggest an intermediate view, that karma is a law of cause and effect yet God can mitigate karma for His devotees. Another view holds that a Sadguru, acting on God's behalf, can mitigate or work out some of the karma of the disciple. [6][7][8]

The "Law of Karma" is central in Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, and Jainism (religions born in India and Nepal). All living creatures are responsible for their karma - their actions and the effects of their actions - and for their release from samsara. As a term, it can be traced back to the early Upanishads.

The Law of Karma is taught in the esoteric Christian tradition, Essenian and later Rosicrucian, as the "Law of Cause and Consequence/Effect" [9]. However, this western esoteric tradition adds that the essence of the teachings of Christ is that the law of sin and death may be overcome by Love, which will restore immortality.

Actions do not create karma (good or bad) only when the actions are performed by an individual in the state of Moksha. Such a person is called "Stithaprajna". Adi Sankara gave the dictum of "Akarmaiva Moksha" which means "Moksha can be attained only by doing, not by a process of effort". All actions performed by one in the state of Moksha are termed as Dharma.

Hindus believe that everything in the Universe is in the state of creation, maintenance or destruction. The Hindu trinity of Gods Brahma (creator), Vishnu (maintainer) and Shiva (Destroyer) correspond to the states of creation, maintenance and destruction. At the thought level, the mind creates a thought, maintains (follows) it for some time and the thought ultimately dies down (perhaps to be replaced by another thought). The Hindus believe there is a fourth state of being (called Turiya) where the mind is not engaged in thinking but just observes the thoughts. Actions in the Turiya state do not create karma. The practice of meditation is aimed at giving individuals the experience of being in the Turiya state. An individual who is constantly in the Turiya state is said to have attained Moksha. In such an individual, actions happen as a response to events (and not because of thought process); such actions do not result in accumulation of Karma.

The process view of release (moksha) from ego-consciousness (ahamkar) through individual responsibility for the totality of action with its inherent karma can be contrasted with the soteriological view of mainstream denominations of Christianity: grace given by faith in the suffering, death and resurrection of a singular savior."

Answer 6

simply put, the energy one has. Then energy that one puts out. The attitude, or essence of the person

Answer 7

what goes around comes around

He also is the FFA/1v1 champ in MLG right now

Answer 8

whatever u did something wrong to some1 it will come back to u

Answer 9

whatever you do comes back to you

Answer 10

Gettin' back what you give.