When we judge, we create negative karma. What are your thoughts on this?

Answer 1

It depends on whether the person making the judgment is justified in doing so.

Judgment is not about negativity; it is about balance.

Justified judgment does NOT create positive OR negative karma, HOWEVER, when someone is not justified in their judgment towards another person, it is no longer about balance, and that is where the negative karma comes in. The negative karma comes from the desire for the person being judged to feel bad about themselves simply for the sake of making them feel bad rather than correcting a mistake.

A true judge only cares about the truth, justice, and balance.

Answer 2

You judge every day.. as you must. I am quite sure that you would not buy a CD that featured me singing on it because I do not sing well (ok.. I sing pretty bad.. OK OK!! My singing makes dogs throw up!)...

In any case, if you had heard me sing at some time then you would avoid buying my CD in the future because of your experience in the past. Perhaps I had actually learned to sing well in the interim but you would be judging me on the past and would not even bother listening to my CD to see if it was good...

You don't have enough time in the day to experience every CD that is made to determine if you want to buy them or not.. so you will buy from groups that have performed well in the past...

Now, your judgement of my "future" CD against a CD of a group that you liked in the past would create a negative sale on my part...

Who do you think is responsible for that negative sale? You? or me?.. after all, I had released a CD in the past that you did not like.. So I believe that the fault would be mine.. and not yours.. So.. I would be the one creating the negative karma by my horrible singing...

Now, change the circumstances.. instead of singing bad.. I was a robber and robbed you (and you knew it).. would you avoid me in the future? I say that you MUST protect yourself and your family.. if I need to change the Karma relationship from me to you then I must repent and ask your forgiveness and make it up to you.. OR.. you must be strong enough to let me keep robbing you and you can forgive me without my asking for it.

Answer 3

I do not believe in karma. I believe in blessing and discipline. I have learned that if I judge someone. I get the discipline for the sin and the person who I judged gets a blessing. I have enough discipline from the Father and I do not need someone elses. I say live and let live.

Answer 4

Judging others means that we think we are more capable than them, superior, would have acted differently and more wisely in that situation. That feeling itself makes us feel proud. From thence our thinking gets all askewed and it definitely creates negative karma. I absolutely agree to the statement. I may have simplified a much more complex process.......

Answer 5

Unless you are an actual magistrate-type judge, engaged in judging as your livelihood, then your "judgment" of another person is a delusion, and this delusion impedes your ability to create positive intention and positive karmic consequence. What you should practice toward others is compassion. Being judgmental can be a major barrier to compassion.

Answer 6

When a person judges another, they don't know that person. The more often they judge, the easier the habit to judge. Eventually, they put themselves in a position that is static, and incomplete.

When you know and love a person, it makes it easier to know and love others more often. This makes a person happy and whole.

Karma is really just the design of things.

Answer 7

you should tell that cara person this but then she might call you a hypocrite and polytheist

but back to the question, that makes sense but then there would be alot of negative karma going around to everyone including myself

Answer 8

If you read about karma (not some silly new age book), you would understand that there is not such thing as "negative" karma.

Answer 9

depends in what context you judge,every thought creates a wave/effect, good or bad are relative concepts

Answer 10

The correct thing to be is not a judge, but a mirror. People won't listen to your judgement anyway, but they find it much harder to ignore themselves.