What are your thoughts on "karma"?

Answer 1

it has always been true for me. it is also in the form of "what comes around goes around" and "do unto your neighbor as you would have done to you."

Answer 2

There are many problems with the salvation-by works doctrine of reincarnation. First, there are many practical problems. For example:
1. We must ask, why does one get punished for something he or she cannot remember having done in a previous life?
2. If the purpose of karma is to rid humanity of its selfish desires, then why hasn't there been a noticeable improvement in human nature after all the millennia of reincarnations?
3. If reincarnation and the law of karma are so beneficial on a practical level, then how do advocates of this doctrine explain the immense and ever-worsening social and economic problems - including widespread poverty, starvation, disease, and horrible suffering - in India, where reincarnation has been systematically taught through out its history?
There are also many biblical problems with believing in reincarnation. For example, in 2 Corinthians 5:8 the apostle Paul states, "We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord." At death, the, the Christian immediately goes into the presence of the Lord, not into another body. In keeping with this. Luke 16:19-31 tells us that unbelievers at death go to a place of suffering, not into another body.
Further, Hebrews 9:27 assures us that "man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment." Each human being LIVES ONCE as a mortal on earth, DIES ONCE, and then FACES JUDGMENT. He does not have a second chance by reincarnating into another body.

Answer 3

If we do good, we recieve good back, and if we do bad we recieve bad in return.

Some beleive that our karma follows us from life to life and if we do good now, but keep recieving bad, then it may be because we were very bad in a past life. I have lived my whole life trying to do good, I sometimes think I must have been Jesse James, Billy the Kid, Black Bart or Hitler due to the things I recieve in return. LOL


All jokes aside, we all see this law at work everyday. The jails are full of people who think they are victoms and the system is against them, but if you were to see their rap sheet, it would suprise you how they did so much and got so little time.

I have neighbors who gripe and complain how they just can't seem to stay out of jail and why the get picked on by cops all the time and how they can't get ahead for paying fines, and bail bonds.

These people are experiencing karma at work. They live lives of drug abuse, drug selling, stealing, fighting and all sorts of things and yet they just do not understand why life had dealt them a bad hand.

Answer 4

Miss Understood, fireball, and Christina,

I am personally appalled at how much you don’t understand the contents of your scriptures. It is amazing how someone can read a given thing and yet never understand there own scriptures.

For your approval, proofs of Karma in the bible!

“Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again” – Luke 6:38

“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” - Galatians 6:7

Proverbs 11:18 says, “The wicked man earns deceptive wages, but he who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.”

Likewise, he who sows wickedness reaps trouble (Proverbs 22:8).

Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously (2 Corinthians 9:6).

Lol apparently this is not Karma to Christians. God they are so in denial and delusional. You reap what you sow, meaning your actions come back unto you. Everything returns to its source.


Btw hell yes I believe in it! It is an universal law, everything is cyclic in life.

Answer 5

What is karma anyways...my point is that we are the ones who define everything, karma is the name we give to a situation in life, a situation where what we do has a strange coincidential after effect. Everything is a coincidence, but that doesn't mean there can't be love at first sight, or that there can't be karma, it just means that what goes around comes around.

Answer 6

I'm a believer. Karma is an idea that has been reiterated by most religions. When I deflect or dissipate a negative comment or attitude, or when I treat people in a way that is better than they have ben treated before, when I create peace from chaos, I produce positive energy that will flow back to me.

Answer 7

I hate how the western world has corrupted it by turning it into 'good karma' and 'bad karma'.

The whole point of Karma is that it is ALL bad, every last bit of it. Some of it brings pleasurable consequences, some unpleasant consequences, but it's all 100% entirely not desirable.

The idea behind Karma is that karma is that which holds our soul to the world. If we die with karma attached to us (or us attached to our karma), then we re-enter the cycle, we do not acheive trancendance and enlightenment.

Only by dying void of karma, ALL karma, can one acheive the enlightened state.

Answer 8

Bad things also happen to good people.
My Psychology prof taught that we are only partially in control of our destinies, since many influences from outside of our sphere of influence can affect us. (Eg, disease, accidents precipitated by other people, the choices of other people, etc.)

Most often, the term karma is mis-used to attribute negative events as the fault of the person's character.
Google Search: Attribution theory, Just World Phenomenon, and Fundamental Attribution Error.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attribution_theory
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_phenomenon

Also related, are the Bible's Sower and Seed, and the comparison of people's actions and the consequences of those actions being compared to the seeds sown, and harvesting later.
This refers more to the building of character, and how character can be affected by a series of choices a person makes.
Poor choices can also have very negative consequences, immediately or in the future.

However, bad things still happen to good people.
In the Book of Job, he suffered huge negative affects through no fault of his own. HIs friends were reprimanded by God when they judged Job.

Answer 9

I believe in it...what comes around goes around I always say! Good karma and bad karma...it's all out there! Always do good!

Answer 10

I believe that the energy that you send out - for good or for ill - comes back to you in your life.

However since I don't hold the "traditional" view on reincarnation, I don't believe that good or bad karma carries over from incarnation to incarnation.

Answer 11

Karma is one of the most important concepts in Buddhism. Karma is an imprint in one's Mind. When one performs a good deed out of good intentions, the good intentions come from the Mind. Having done that good deed, the residues of these intentions stay in one's Mind as "imprints", and that is "good karma". The opposite goes for evil deeds (or what the Buddha would call "unwholesome deeds") done out of greed, hatred etc.