Is reaping what you sow just another word for karma?

Question

Like what goes around comes around? Bad or good energy boomeranging back to you?

Answer 1

The universe is like a mirror. What ever you put out into it will be reflected back at you so you can better understand how it feels to be the focus of this type of behavior.

This is a gift of love from the source that is intended to both teach and guide us to be more compassionate and loving to or fellow creatures.

Love and blessings.

Don

Answer 2

As I learn more and more about the other religions of this world, it often seems like the history of God from before the flood was passed on by Noah's sons. This was just maybe the reason God made Moses write the Torah or first five books of the Old Testament. For sure Semiramus the wife of Nimrod, Noah's grandson spread many false religions or at least the Idolatry ones which contain the known mythology. The Tower of Babel was in direct rebellion toward God so Nimrod was rebellious.

False religions pick up a tidbit of God's instructions, but the Bible, men who knew Jesus tell us, is the inspired Word of God. Men full of the Holy Spirit wrote what the Holy Spirit gave to them.

So why wouldn't Buddha who taught, the goal of human existence was to free oneself from the law of "Karma" (cause and effect of good and bad deeds) and achieve the state of "Nirvana," where one ceases desiring and thus eliminates suffering. Buddha was raised Hindu with Karma and rebelled against it. Even when you rebell against a false religion the truth becomes watered down to nothing.

Answer 3

All living beings are subject to the law of Karma. The karma law is based on the philosophy of 'as you sow, so shall you reap'. It says that if you give happiness to others, they will also try to bring a smile on your face by making you feel happy. It also holds true in the vice versa situation. If you do wrong to others, they will also indulge in wrongful activities. Life is like a mirror, it reflects what you do. So, treat it with a smile and a smile will come back to you.

Answer 4

I dunno as it would necessarily equate to karma. You'll reap what you sow is a very Christian ideal, so translating it as karma doesn't quite work.

An example: my sister contracted the human papilloma virus - which 80% of the population has - from her ex boyfriend (whom she was with for five years). When she had to start going in for cervical cancer screenings and all sorts of not-so-fun procedures to get rid of the precancerous cells, my mother (a very devout Christian) said, "Well, she's reaped what she sowed." Meaning, well, she had sex outside of marriage, and that's what you get.

That isn't karma at all. Karma is what you put out coming back to you. You send out negative energy, negative things will come into your life. You send out positive energy, positive things will come into your life. You deliberately do something harmful to someone else, it will come back on you threefold. My sister didn't get HPV because she was a bad person or sent out bad energies. She got HPV because it's undetectable in men, and most women fight it off on their own anyway. It has nothing to do with what she sent out into the world.

Now, an argument can be made that my sister is a very negative person, because she is, and because she's so negative she attracted her ex, who is also a negative person, and therefore as an indirect result of her negativity she caught HPV, but I have two very close friends who also have it and neither of them have ever been anything but lovely Pollyanna people. Karma certainly doesn't account for the health issues they've had to deal with. In both of those instances, the Christian idea of "You reap what you sow"- i.e., you have sex outside of marriage and you'll get what you deserve - would apply, but karma certainly does not.

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Answer 5

I don't know what Karma is, but the meaing of reaping what you sew describes how God runs the world.

If you do a good deed for someone, then someone will eventually come and do a good deed for you. If you do something bad, someone will come along eventually and do something bad to you. When that happens, you need to understand that it is an attonement for your sin

Answer 6

Yes it is the same just different wording, but to the Christian karma is evil and of Satan, but to us pagans Karma is the same as reaping what you sow. Satan is a Christian creation.

Answer 7

nope.

karma is based on the concept of reincarnation - reaping in the nextl ife what you sow in this life.

biblical reaping & sowing has to do with facing god's judgment after we die. we must give an account to God for what we have done in this body. we will indeed reap what we sow.

god bless

Answer 8

If you are talking about the bible verse, the correct translation is
"You sow to the wind and reap the whirlwind." So I would have to say no, it has nothing to do with karma.

Answer 9

Wow what a groovy point man. I like your way of thinking. But seriously, yes I believe the originators of those cliches were all trying to make the same point.
I personally am a firm believer that bad things happen to good people and there is nothing you can do about it other than "make lemon-aid from those lemons".

Answer 10

No, karma is another word for reaping what you sow. People put all kinds of softer labels on the same old bottle of poison.