On believing in karma do you believe in it or not?

Question

what are the facts that support your belief the person to raise the best case gets the points

actually points may not mean anything to you but that may not be the case for everyone else especially since you have so many i have had plenty of people who want them and go out of there way to get a good answer from the net or other places instead of just putting some crap down

Answer 1

I believe in what the Bible says, "you reap what you sow".

Karma is based on hindu beliefs. I do NOT adhere to it at all!

Karma is a sum of all that an individual has done, is currently doing and will do. The results or "fruits" of actions are called karma-phala. Karma is not about retribution, vengeance, punishment or reward. Karma simply deals with what is. The effects of all deeds actively create past, present and future experiences, thus making one responsible for one's own life, and the pain and joy it brings to others. In religions that incorporate reincarnation, karma extends through one's present life and all past and future lives as well.

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

Karma simply means "action", so yes, I believe in it. People (mistakenly) try to attach good and bad qualifier to it, as if they can tell what is (ultimately) good or bad. Karma is expressed simply in a rubber ball thrown against the wall and returning. Other events simply require much more complexity to analyze all of the involved influences, and after a certain point become unfathomable. The best modern theory to illustrate Karma is Chaos theory applied to event analysis (ie, the Butterfly Effect).

Answer 4

Karma is what you do. If your actions are bad and create bad karma, you will have bad things happen to you- you may or may not see the results of those actions in this lifetime.
You may see someone who does all sorts of bad things and you may never witness any bad things happening to them. That does not mean that they will not occur.
When bad things happen to you, accept them as the results of your own bad actions. Know that how you deal with the 'badness' is important. If you react poorly and creat more bad karma, you are doomed to repeat the cycle. If you accept the bad events and attempt to work through them as positively as possible, then you are creating no further bad karma to deal with later.
Take ownership of bad situations that arise. You will be calmer and more able to behave in a mature fashion, whether you believe in karma or not.

Karma, like any other metaphysical notion is not testable, so I am not sure what 'facts' are there to support the belief. I do know that accepting bad karma when it happens gives me way more control over anger.

Answer 5

"Karma" is a Buddhist and a Hindu concept.
It depends on re-incarnation, Karma says that you have the life that you have because you "deserve it" based on your actions in a prior life. The better you did, and now do, the better off you will be later. It is a fatalistic world view.

The Bible says:
Galatians 6:7
Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.

Hebrews 9:27-28
27 And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment,
28 so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him.

Answer 6

The laws of karma, the laws of action and reaction. In one sense, the laws of karma are any laws by which one can predict the result—or reaction—to a given event. In this broad sense, Isaac Newton's third law of motion—to every action there is an equal and opposite reaction—is a statement of how the laws of karma operate in the realm of physics. In another context, a doctor's diagnosis that our indigestion is the result of too much spicy food is based on the doctor's knowledge of the laws of karma as they relate to medical science. And although we don't normally use the word karma, we can directly observe that pollution is the karmic reaction for industrial development, venereal diseases the karmic reaction for promiscuity, imprisonment the karmic reaction for crime.

Answer 7

I believe in it in the sense that if I do good deeds, I am rewarded by being a good person. If I do bad deeds, I am punished by having to live my life as a bad person.
People who do bad stuff may seem happy, but chances are it's just an act. Either that or they are pathological. Perhaps they will have an epiphany one day that will reveal how horrible they have been and feel really guilty.

Answer 8

I dont believe so much in karma as somewhat the same thing-what you put out there comes back. I believe that if you speak nicely to a person thats how they will respond-and yelling begets more yelling.

Answer 9

I Worked with a girl named Karma. A major space cadet.

Answer 10

No. I know someone who is a very bad person. Backstabs everyone, gossips, steals, uses people... and she's happy and is leading a pretty good life...

I know someone else who donates to charities, doesn't gossip, doesn't use people, and really takes care of their loved ones and does whatever possible to make them happy... but that person isn't happy and isn't leading anywhere near the kind of life they want to live.

Karma is either very unfair confused and twisted, or is not real.