Those who believe in buddha?

Question

Do you believe in kuma? If you do something bad, bad things will come back to you. Example: If you stole "A"'s things, your things will be stolen by "B". But "B" is sent by God to punish you, so will "B" be punished for following God's will?

Answer 1

Agree totally the first guy answer this question.
Btw, who or what is kuma?

Answer 2

There are four laws of karma:

1. Karma is fixed.
2. Karma increases.
3. Karmic results are only experienced by one who created the cause for that experience.
4. Karmic seeds do not lose their potency of their own accord.

Regarding #2 - both positive and negative karmic results increase in potency unless they are obstructed. Positive results can be obstructed by anger, and other negative actions. Negative results can be obstructed through the directed positive actions of our Dharma practice, the Four Opponent Powers and so forth.

Regarding #4 - 'of their own accord' means that unless we intervene with directed positive Dharma actions to purify and transform negative actions, those actions will never lose potency. They will perpetually have the power to bring us suffering.
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Buddha stated three things which are misunderstandings about karma ---that everything:
1) Is here due to no reason
2) Is the creation of a god
3) Is completely controlled by karma (so it becomes like a fate).

We can go on and on about how people suffer, whether someone is born without an arm or whether one is persecuted during a war or holocaust. I think the misunderstanding is the person who asked you the question is assuming that karma is a fate system. Karma is not a fate system.

Karma plants a seed, and when certain conditions are around, that karmic seed ripens. Your life is not predetermined.

If one assumes any of those "three misunderstandings" the question seems right. If everything is here due to no reason, it would be a very sad that someone is born in a very bad condition. If everything is due to a God's creation, it is horrible that God allowed this to take place and allowed such bad conditions to take place. If everything is a fate system, then we are merely robots who have not much control over the outcome of anything.

But Buddha taught none of these, and karma does not fall into these misunderstandings. The seed for the particular karma was present and was able to ripen under the conditions (such as an unhealthy maternity)... not because it was predetermined!

Answer 3

nobody believes in the buddha the way they believe in christ or mohamed. the duddha is the name given to a person who reaches enlightenment, and teaches what he has learned before passing on from existence. the goal of buddhism is for everyone to become a buddha, and there have been several, it's just that the last one was best known.
karma is basically what goes around comes around. a god does not get involved. in ur example, just coz u stole from a does not mean someone will steal from u, its just that something will happen. like u get caught by the cops.

Answer 4

You seem to be a little misinformed on Karma and consequence.I'll explain..

If I steal, I earn negative Karma which will either manifest itself in this existence or the next. Buddhists believe that all actions have consequence. That said, the emphasis is on cause not effect Buddhists believe that the seeds of your actions will bear fruit later on in future happiness or unhappiness.

For example, a man walking in a forest encounters a deer that runs past him in distress. Subsequently, a man dressed in hunting gear with a gun also passes him asking which direction the deer went. The man misinforms the hunter sending him in a direction other than that in which the deer went. Although he has told a lie, he has acted out of compassion for the deer which forms the underlying intention behind his action. That volition (cetana) behind the action will be a cause for his own future well-being. On the other hand if a person professes piety and virtue but nonetheless acts with greed, anger or hatred (veiled behind an outward display of well-meaning intent) then the fruit of those actions will bear testimony to the fundamental intention that lay behind them and will be a cause for future unhappiness. In this sense the Buddha spoke of wholesome actions (kusala-kamma) and unwholesome actions (akusala-kamma).

Karma is thus used as an ethical principle, rather than a cosmological explanation for the world. Buddhists believe that the actions of beings determine their own future, and because of this there are no private actions: all actions have a consequence.

I hope that this explains Karma and consequence for you

Peace....

Answer 5

I guess you could say I "believe" in buddha, because the stories of his life and teachings are quite helpful for people to live by. I also believe in Einstein and Abraham Lincoln.

I have never heard of kuma. I don't believe anything superstitious.

Answer 6

Buddha clearly existed, so there's no disputing that. The historical Jesus, on the other hand, is still a subject of open debate.

Buddha was a philosopher who expressly asked that his philosophy not become a religion.

Alas, like Christianity, somebody figured out how to make money at it.

Answer 7

you can't 'believe' in buddha. you can only strive to become one, become a buddha, anyway gautama siddartha said not to believe in him but to try it for yourself and decide. Good point about Karma though. Anyway, just goes to show how many westerners claim to follow buddhism but are just charlatans who say a lot of cool sanskrit words like karma and nirvana without knowing anything about the implications of thousands of years of practice and belief and an entirely diferent world view. Cut the God rubbish though, don't think Gautama would be having much truck with your christian god.

Answer 8

No God will punish you for stealing. But it makes the other person sad, and you will probably feel sad too. So just don't do it. They might kick your 4ss too, which will hurt a bunch.

Answer 9

I believe in buddha but I don't really believe in Karma. I believe that we should do our best to achieve our desired result.

Answer 10

Buddha has nothing to do with this nonsense.
Neither does Karma.