Even if there is just one person (A) who has bad karma and is destined to pay for it and there has to be a circumstance or another person (B) to make it happen for person A to pay for the bad karma. In that way, does it mean that person B might have already planted a bad karma? This seems to create a vicious cycle that karma will never end and hence how can the wish of Aryavalokitesvarya be fulfilled?
2007-04-05 10:57:49 · 5 answers · asked by MDesperate 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Everyone has reincarnated into this world with the karma of previous life. To redeem your bad karma, act mercifully to the others; live in harmony with everything; and do good deed. The one, who lives a pure life without being possessed by the evil, material desire, is pure enough to enter Nirvana. So when everyone is pure enough to leave the suffering cycle, person A can live a pure life to enter Nirvana by himself. That wish of Aryavalokitesvara is fulfilled at this time.
2007-04-06 05:52:46 · answer #1 · answered by holyfire 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you are in the moment, you have no karma. The more you live in the moment, the less effect your karma has on your thought s and actions.
Example;
A musician has habits/styles of playing that are results of his practice/playing from previous sessions, this is his karma. If he is playing and breaks out of his usual habit/style, then he is freed from his karma, at least for that moment.
The rest of life is like this. If I'm wrong, tell me.
Karma is just a practical step-by-step process that governs forms. It's not a "you get what you deserve" type thing. Morality is not a part of karma. Karma is just events that effect each other. It doesn't matter what we think, or how we feel, about it.
The best way to not be so effected by karma is to practice zazen (sitting meditation). If you sit and just concentrate on quieting your mind, then you are free from your karma.
2007-04-07 11:46:12 · answer #2 · answered by Teaim 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You work though your karma. The best thing to do is not let things someone else does slide off your shoulders. They will have to deal with their karma eventually. Retaliating or even 'accelerating their karma' is action on your part that causes harm to another, which is bad karma for you.
I'm not sure I entirely understand your question. If person A does something to harm person B, you can't blame person B for being the victim. The rape victim did not cause the rapist to rape. Blaming the victim is just another way to justify harmfull behavior.
2007-04-05 18:05:22 · answer #3 · answered by St. Toad 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perceptions, reactions, mind, karma.
You perceive something that negatively impacts your self-cherishment, you react negatively, you plant a negative seed in your mindstream. When the causes and conditions for that see to ripen arise, you either meet it with understanding of how it arose and how it got in your mindstream in the first place and fail to react negatively or you react again.
If you fail to react with clinging and attachment or aversions to what you perceive around you, you can draw down the things you perceive as "bad" until you eventually wear it out, WHILE conducting yourself in a virtuous manner... i.e. attaining wisdom, and virtuous deeds, meditating on the Dharma and arriving at the same conclusions the Buddha did... and at the point where you transcend all of the stuff I just mentioned earlier, you get beyond all that karmic debt.
Does that make sense?
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2007-04-05 18:58:54 · answer #4 · answered by vinslave 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not necesarily. As soon as you get done with karma, you achieve enlightment, and leave Samsara (the cycle of reincarnations).
Eventually, we will all do so, and transit into a higher form of existance.
2007-04-05 18:06:31 · answer #5 · answered by G 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋