what is karma?

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what is karma

Answer 1

A state of being, an energy that affects life.

Answer 2

Mythylogical eastern religious ********. Along the same lines of some beliefs in Western religious mythology. That says that what goes around comes around is some sort of universal law. If you do bad things your Karma will be bad and your life will suffer for it. If you do good things your life will be enriched, have good Karma and you will be blessed for it. That is some pretty self explanatory stuff. Most people don't like a jerk and jerks tend to have a rough time of it once everyone else learns what kind of person they are. Likewise the nicer you are to people, the more liklihood is that they will do nice things to you in return. However this always doesn't ring true as everyone knows cases where nice people have horrible lives and jerks end up being some of the most powerful people in the world. In fact up until the modern age just about the opposite was true. Jerks for the most part controlled everything and nice guys were basically slaves to their lords.

What is always funny to me about Karma, and you all know I am right on this one. Is that even many self described atheists and secular humanists and other types of leftists and new agers babble on about Karma as if it were a factual, even though they would clearly reject it if it was part of western religious beliefs. That is what is so douchebaggy about the whole situation.

Here is my philosophy on Karma, it is nothing more than a basic principle of society on how people want a perfect world to work, Sometimes it rings true, sometimes it does not. However I don't believe their is any mystic property or universal application to it. If someone is a member of an Eastern Religion and believes in Karma as part of their dogma, that is fine. I have no problem with it. If someone just talks about Karma in an aforementioned context like I said about society, that is fine too, although it is a little gay. However, if you are one of those western Atheists, Secular Humanists (especially Atheist or secular humanist), new agers or whatever, that is quick to poo poo western religious ideology and then yet embrace this as some mystical law of the universe, then simply put people like that ARE DOUCHEBAGS!

Answer 3

Karma means "what comes around, goes around." If you do good, it will come back to you. If you do bad, it will come back to you.

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. It is cumulative.

Answer 4

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 5

Karma (Sanskrit kárman "act, action, performance"[1]; Pāli kamma) (pronunciation (help·info)) is the concept of "action" or "deed" in Dharmic religions understood as denoting the entire cycle of cause and effect described in Hindu and Buddhist philosophies.

Answer 6

You create your Karma, basically by thoughts, you create the energy around you by positive or negative thoughts.

example... if you act like a jerk, others would eventually treat you the same.

If you show love, others would see that, and they would love you, for who you are.

Answer 7

It is the "Law" of As you sow so shall you reap. Jesus said it must be fulfilled or balanced, every jot and tittle Matt 5:18 This statement contradicts the belief that there is nothing to do to confess and accept Jesus for salvation

Answer 8

Karma, from the Buddist religion, means what you do good, good comes back to you, and do bad, bad comes back to you.

Answer 9

everything you do comes back to you in some way some form so when u cheated on your husband last night with steve from accounting it is going to come back on you maybe double!

Answer 10

"What goes around comes around" meaning if you say something, it's going to come back to you at some point or another.