fate or karma...?

Question

do you think all things that happens to us is by fate or by karma?

Answer 1

I think they are basically two parts of a whole. I think that karma can change your fate.

Answer 2

Sorry for throwing a Buddhist perspective at you. Fate is when the outcome of an event or a series of events is predetermined and you have no control over the outcome. Buddhism does not consider that the future is already written and that the individual does not have the power to shape what happens. There is no script which we are all tied to following and we have the power to choose what we do and shape the events which follow. Karma is the accumulation of attachments to people, events, actions and places which we collect during our lives. Our hunger for money, power, pleasure etc are all part of our Karma and the more actions we take to satisfy those hungers the more Karma we accumulate. By practicing and displaying our hungers we pass them on by example and as direct teaching to others and cause increase in their Karma. A hunger to be seen as good and kind is just as difficult and unnecessary as a hunger to do evil. By acting without Karma out of a spirit of doing without thought to personal gain we reduce Karma and do not pass on the hunger. For reincarnation there is a lot of confused thinking. One Buddhist principle is that nothing is permanent and that includes "I". What I consider to be "I" today is not the same thing that I considered to be "I" yesterday. On this basis their is no "I" that I can pass on to another at my death. My thoughts and experiences through this life cannot be passed to another body and we do not believe that a soul which carries this information exists either. All that I can pass on is my hunger for approval, wealth etc. These I pass on all the time that I am alive and the legacy lives on after my death. God does not issue you with a shiny new body after you die because there is no permanent you and there is no God in the sense that this sentence requires. A lot of what I say may not be acceptable to some Buddhists and may just reflect my lack of understanding but Buddhism is about seeking knowledge and if I thought that I had it all I wouldn't be here looking.

Answer 3

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 4

Fate

Answer 5

Karma!

Answer 6

No. I believe that people are endowed with the power to choose and act for themselves, although I do believe there is a God to which we are all eventually accountable for those choices and actions. I believe we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us, but I don't think that the things that happen to us are a result of karma. It's just someone else's choices and actions affecting us.

Answer 7

We are working out our "Prarabdha" (already acquired) Karma. In the process we are exuding new tendencies and thoughts, thereby generating new Karma. Have control over the present, you'll reap dividends in future. But you have to exhaust your already acquired Karma.

Answer 8

No.

I believe life is a chaos of random events and coincidences. I believe that many people "create their own karma" by their choices, but it's really just a way of saying that making certain choices increases certain probabilities.

Answer 9

Karma: I definitely believe what goes around comes around.

Answer 10

I am a huge karma believer.