isnt karma of some middle eastern religion?

Answer 1

No, karma is the principle of "what you sow, so shall you reap" - in Christian terms.

Just about every religion in the world refers to this universal principle.

It is not a religion in and of itself. Pangel is wrong...it is an Indian term (Buddhists and Hindus use it)....but the concept is in just about every religion.

~ Eric Putkonen

Answer 2

Christianity is some Middle Eastern religion

Answer 3

Karma (Sk.). Physically, action: metaphysically, the LAW OF RETRIBUTION, the Law of cause and effect or Ethical Causation. Nemesis, only in one sense, that of bad Karma. It is the eleventh Nidana in the concatenation of causes and effects in orthodox Buddhism; yet it is the power that controls all things, the resultant of moral action, the metaphysical Samskâra, or the moral effect of an act committed for the attainment of something which gratifies a personal desire. There is the Karma of merit and the Karma of demerit. Karma neither punishes nor rewards, it is simply the one Universal LAW which guides unerringly, and, so to say, blindly, all other laws productive of certain effects along the grooves of their respective causations. When Buddhism teaches that “Karma is that moral kernel (of any being) which alone survives death and continues in transmigration” or reincarnation, it simply means that there remains nought-after each Personality but the causes produced by it; causes which are undying, i.e., which cannot be eliminated from the Universe until replaced by their legitimate effects, and wiped out by them, so to speak, and such causes-unless compensated (during the life of the person who produced their with adequate effects, will follow the reincarnated Ego, and reach it in its subsequent reincarnation until a harmony between effects and causes is fully reestablished. No “personality”--a mere bundle of material atoms and of instinctual and mental characteristics-- can of course continue, as such, in the world of pure Spirit. Only that which is immortal in its very nature and divine in its essence, namely, the Ego, can exist for ever. And as it is that Ego which chooses the personality it will inform, after each Devachan, and which receives through these personalities the effects of the Karmic causes produced, it is therefore the Ego, that self which is the “moral kernel” referred to and embodied karma, “which alone survives death.”

Answer 4

Karma is not buddhist term. It is a hindu word first put forward by Shri Krishna in Geeta.... 5000 years ago

since buddhism stemmed from hinduism, they use most of the terms of hinduism, like karma re-birth etc

Answer 5

the name karma is Hindu, and thus from india.

it has to do with reincarnation, after a person dies, his karma is judged (the account of all his actions troughout his life) before he is reincarnated. this judgement determins if you will move up or down in the universe ( get reincarnated as a cow, human, or maybe even a worm)

Answer 6

Karma is a Buddhist term
it simply means what goes around comes around
and is present in just about every other religion
it seems to be the one truth that everyone holds
what you give you recieve ... what you sow so shall you reap etc

i stand corrected .. Buddhists and Hindus

Answer 7

Same as Pangel, she is correct.