Do you believe in Karma??

Question

Did you experience it yourself? Did someoen who hurt you get what he/she deserved? Or did you get what you deserved? I am Catholic and can honestly say I have never hurt someone to the point where I had to put him/her in therapy for it. But someone has done this to me. And I was there for them through so much:(

Answer 1

Yes, I believe in Karma. I don't believe that it is the answer for everything negative or positive that happens in your life. If you put positive energy forth into the world, you will get back positive energy. This spiritual concept has persisted through thousands of years.

Answer 2

It is very misleading to believe in such a strictly defined sort of Karma. What I do believe is that it is simply impossible/ unrealistic that Karma evens out all that you've done to others and all that has been done to you in this one life. I'm a Buddhist and my kind of Karma may differ from the commonly understood sort. Karma doesn't mean if you do bad, all that happens to you will be bad, neither does it mean if something bad happen to you that is always because of bad Karma. Two very important things to take note about Karma: 1) Law of Karma simply states that your intentional actions have appropriate consequences coming back to you, and 2) Karma is not the scapegoat for everything that happens.

Answer 3

I believe in Karma. I am a Hindu, but by belief in Karma has nothing to do with my religion. My philosophy is that whatever you give, it returns back to you some or other time in may be different form. And when u are asking about experience, I think every one gets it. But if you trust, you remember and make note of it in somewhere in the brain/heart. But if u don't care the incidences may go unnoticed...I have seen simple and straight people getting very good future as compared to cunning people.....there are many examples...

Answer 4

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 5

Yes, I think we reap what we sow.

I believe that "karma" as we understand it is a natural law like like gravity. If we do good in our lives, then goodness will be returned to us and vice versa. I don't think that the ratio of return is necessarily 1:1, so I don't think that walking a old woman across the street will translate into 10 good karma points, but our perpetual kindness won't go unnoticed.

If you were kind to someone and they hurt you, then that's a lesson in itself. Karma may come and strike the person (like my class bully who now has no friends or life) but I don't think we'd want bad things like that to happen to anyone.

Answer 6

Karma is the cosmic under workings of our extensive universe. It doesn't deliver in exactly the way that you expect but it's there.

The person who hurt you will get back the negative forces they've put onto you. It's up to you to push on with your life and make sure that this one horrible thing doesn't define you as a person or how you live your life. Don't give this person that power over you.

Answer 7

I do indeed believe in Karma--and incidentally, every religion teachis that principle, in one form or another. At one point Christ healed a man--and then said "Go, and sin no more--lest a worse thing befall thee."

The point of Karma (in either Hinduism/Buddism or Christianity) is that We are to forgive--but we can be assured that justice will be done--sooner or later. Or, to quote Sun Tzu (China) "If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will come floating by."

And yes--I've seen Karma in action. You can see it every day once you learn to see it. And--Karma works both ways--if you do something good, soooner or later it pays off--even if you don't see the connection.

Answer 8

Definitely....everything thats happened in my life- good and bad-- i attribute to karma from a past life. Im catholic as well, but i do believe in past lives..... such as this life has been a nightmare but u must be strong to get through it and i just think huh, what did i do in a past life that was so bad its coming through now??? i mean ovarian cancer, suicides, all kinds of stuff... so im really living this life good and in hopes of putting forth good karma to those in need.

Answer 9

Karma is a concept conetral to the beliefs of Hindu and Buddhist religious belief. While I do accept the existance of this I also understand that anyone that does not follow Hindu or Buddhist religion is not affected by it. This concept ONLY applies to those that follow Hindu or Buddhist religions and no one else.

Answer 10

what goes around comes around, so they say.. That is true but we seem not to know much about how some people suffer for the attrocities they commit, but definately in life, one can never go free from what they have committed in life. A vivid example is Uncle Saddam, although he was killed by fellow bad people in a diferent bad orientational background.