Karma: why do bad things happen to good people??

Question

i am a good person but i get bad karma.

i try to be nice to people/ they hurl abuse at me
i give people good advice/ they ignore me
i get the perfect job/ someone ruins it for me now i have no job
i'm really nice to women/ but i'm not their type

how do i rid myself of bad karma?

Answer 1

There is being nice and letting people take advantage of you. You may not have bad karma, but just the inability to see people for what they are when they are taking advantage of you.

Answer 2

Sorry, but it is not karma because karma is not real. It is just life, and life is not about fairness. Good things happen and bad things happen. Sometimes it is your fault and sometimes it is not. Sometimes you can do something about it and sometimes you cannot.

I know that is not a satisfying answer, but that’s the way it is. People are always looking for an explanation they can understand and that makes sense out of senseless events because it is our nature to feel safer and reassured if we think that we know what is going on.

Nothing in life scares people more than things and events that they do not understand and cannot control. Just think what it must have been like in the past. Before Franklin’s experiment demonstrated that lightning was static electricity, no one knew what it was or what caused it. Still, over a hundred years later, during the American Civil War, officers on both sides thought that lightening came from God and was a good omen for victory on the battlefield.

How is this for having a bad day? In a single day in 1794 (during the French Revolution), Antonie Lavoisier (“the father of modern chemistry” and the person who recognized and coined the term ‘oxygen’) was branded a traitor, arrested, tried, convicted, and beheaded.

Lavoisier, ever the scientist, told his assistant to stand in the crowd when he [Lavoisier] was to be guillotined. It was common practice at such events, for the executioner to hold the severed head he had just whacked off up in the air for the crowd to see. Lavoisier told his assistant that after his head was cut off and was being held up in the air he would, if possible, blink his eyes as many times as he could. The assistant later reported that the French scientist managed to blink his eyes 11 or 12 times after his head had been severed from his body.

I’m not sure what the moral of that story is. I just think you have to admire a guy who manages to accomplish something even after having his head chopped off.

Answer 3

First, depending on your specific metaphysical view, karma may be carried between lives. You might just be doing time for something that happened a long time ago.

As hard as this is, there is no escape from karma. Karma is, by definition, fair. (Forgiveness is one of the arguments Christians use to convert Buddhists.)

But, I sense a bigger problem here: People are mean to you, they don't listen to you, someone else costs you your job, women don't like you. You're a little too comfortable being a victim. This likely isn't karma at all, except insofar as you're paying for bad decisions you're making right now. You need to think about taking a little more responsibility for your own life.

All of these things are connected. People don't respect you, quite possibly because you don't respect yourself. Don't look for a magical solution here. Karma does not descend from the heavens, you make your own karma, every day. Make it your New Year's resolution to own your own problems and take charge of fixing them. The karma will take care of itself.

Answer 4

I'm not a believer of reinarnation or karma consequently, because you will always be wondering what you did wrong in a life you dont remember. Therefore it is a fruitless proposition, its like being an inmate at a prison and wondering why you are there.

It maybe the case that you are just too nice and therefore people take you for granted. This is a rotten world we live in filled with too many rotten people Im afraid. What you shouldnt do is let that dishearten you or make you hard hearted, just learn to deal with people in a wiser manner.

Answer 5

There is no such thing as karma, though we do reap what we sow. The sun rises on the just and the unjust alike. You will have your share of trouble in this world. Carefully of adopting a negative mindset about everything because you can end up sabotaging yourself. Just remember this, that sometimes you receive good things and were in no way deserving of those things at the time.

Answer 6

Bad things happen to good people because there is evil in the world. It sounds to me like you need to learn more social skills. Are you trying to help people when they don't want help? That would make them feel small. Do you give people advice when they haven't asked for it? That might make them feel that you think they are incompetent. What an insult? You could ask God to deliver you from evil, and help you to meet people who like your 'type'. Happy New Year!

Answer 7

how do you think about karma? about good people?
you must learn it from The Buddhism Theory. we can define "karma is consequences of your deed". it can be good deeds or evil deeds depending on your volition, your mind.
perform good deed
don't do evil deed
purify your mind
that's The Buddha's teaching.
what done will be done.
the reason is that what you have done is not enough for you to gain blessing.
good person is one who only devote his life for others' sake.
be happy and never be sad
things always turn out for the best

Answer 8

Rid yourselves of the ladies and that "bad karma" would decrease greatly.

Answer 9

Good people are easy prey to bad things, whereas bad people are immune to bad things. Doesn't this remind you in magnetism that like poles repel each other and unlike poles attract each other?

Answer 10

Whoever said life is only filled with good things? Why shouldn't "bad" things happen to you, too? You're not special, you know...