In a lot of these answers on this site and in everyday life more and more people are mentioning Karma! what goes around comes around etc. I want to know more about it is it a religious sect or chinese belief, please give your answers THANX>>>
2007-08-15 02:37:03 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
well as an Atheist, Karma is the closest, I think, I will ever get to religion. I believe in the fact that your actions will cause reactions within your life, I don't believe in God, but I do believe that the earth has to be more than just what we can percieve and feel through our senses. We only have 5 senses, how do we know that the earth isn't made up of so much more than we see. the world is, in its-self , a mass of electrical energy that flows between the two magnetic poles, what effect does this have on our planet in ways we do not understand. the energy could be a life force, for all we know, a force that can not communicate on our level because we are nit advanced enough to answer. (isn't philosophy great)
Karma is the central belief of the Dharmic Religions, a belief that all living things are responsible for their own actions and effects. it goes withthe scientific version ofthe big bang theory of cause and effect throughout the universe. karma, though similar, differs throughout each tradition , by this I mean : Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism ect ect. but the short of it is, that any one individual is incharge of his/her own Karma and that the result s will be Karma-Phala. the meaning of Karma can be traced back to the early Upanishads which are the ancient scriptures of Hindu philosophy, which gave birth to the religious diversity within Indian culture, like our bible has given birth to a plethora of christian religions that differ to Orthordox.
in shorter terms " what goes around, comes around" now thats something that we all should live by
2007-08-15 03:22:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
You've received good answers regarding historically accepted meaning and application. Karma is an essential teaching of every major religion whether it is defined as a concept or not.
Why?
Because your experience of reality mirrors the contents of mind/consciousness, karma has a greater depth of significance than just 3-fold or 7-fold results mentioned above. It is your imprinted belief system that reality mirrors - the childish ideas regarding what is good/bad about you - that have been stored in the subconscious and have the power of causation. You may have done NOTHING bad to deserve reality's "stings and arrows of outrageous fortune" but if you have faith/believe you have, the results are the same.
This is why every religion offers a path/way of psychological purification. "Cause and effect are NEVER separated/You live by faith/You know them by their fruits." It is a failsafe system for transcending your little defensive identity and returning to the power of authentic being.
2007-08-15 03:48:21 · answer #2 · answered by MysticMaze 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Buddhism and Hinduism both discuss karma in ways that are slightly different. The Buddhist example discusses that karma is simply the result of your thoughts and deeds, that when the time is right for the results to come to fruition, they do, and the result is always experienced greater than the original deed or thought that put it in motion.
More can be found at www.buddhanet.net
The Hindu version www.hinduismtoday.com
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2007-08-15 02:45:50 · answer #3 · answered by vinslave 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Karma is a buddhist belief. Buddhism is said to orginate in India. It has spread throughout Asia and takes many forms, just as there are many differnet forms of Islam. It has to do with the belief of past lives. The way your life is now was determined by your actions in the previous life. Now your actions will also determine your next life when you reincarnate. Any need of further information feel free to e-mail me.
2007-08-15 02:50:46 · answer #4 · answered by Yuri ^_^ 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Technical defintions:
"As a person acts, as a person behaves, so does that person become. Whoso does good actions becomes good; whoso does evil actions becomes evil. Whatever action (= karma) he or she does, that he or she attains." (Brhaddaranyaka Upanishad, one of the earliest Indic references to karma).
"Action creates impressions or tendencies in the mind which in time will come to fruition in further action. The subtle body in which the individual soul transmigrates, carries the seeds of karma; and the gross body is the field in which the fruit of the action is experienced, and which also creates more karma." (Oxford Dictionary of World Religions)
Any action we undertake in a state that is less than utterly natural and selfless is karmic. It has an effect on us. Action can be mental or physical. Even "good" karma has an effect that must someday be worked through, insofar as it perpetuates any illusions we have about who we really are.
How we respond to wounds and insults -- how we cover and protect ourselves psychically -- anything that removes us from the living truth, we must someday return to and heal from and undo.
In this regard, karma is not dissimilar to Western spiritual understandings of sin, when sin is seen to be anything that separates us from the divine truth (i.e., anything that separates us from "God"). It is also not dissimilar to modern day psychoanalytic perspectives that suggest that we must return to psychoemotional complexes and defenses we have created that keep us separate and protected from reality.
Until and unless we are nakedly honest and unconditionally truthful in our relationship to what is most simply real, we live in a world of our own creation. That creation is the fruit of karma.
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2007-08-15 03:08:27 · answer #5 · answered by bodhidave 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Karma is the doing. Many believe that what good or bad you might do will somehow return to you, perhaps as much as seven times as good or bad.
If you believe the farmers saying: As you sow so shall you reap. = Meaning you grow what you plant.
Karma is the doing, the sowing, the planting if you will. SO the idea of Karma is that what you do returns to you; how you treat others is how they will treat you.
2007-08-15 02:46:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's actually a belief system in Buddhism. Buddhists feel that the more good you do during your life, the better your next life will be, and eventually, you will achieve a perfect state of being.
2007-08-15 02:44:13 · answer #7 · answered by Professor Farnsworth 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wicca believes in karma also.
The Threefold Law is that what you do positive/negative will come back to you three times.
I love this idea, since coming across it I definitely think before I act.
And I believe it to be true.
2007-08-15 02:55:45 · answer #8 · answered by Nurse Winchester 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
karma anytiing yu do dose yur heart says confident that is nice choose for it or dont doit its no longer good if yur heart says choose for it that is a good karma if yur heart says no nevertheless yu do it it is mattress karma ween yu doing someting for somebody if yu no longer hopping to get something back from different man or woman that a good karma thats all i be responsive to
2016-10-10 06:45:53 · answer #9 · answered by serravalli 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
www.buddhanet.com
www.meditationthai.org
2007-08-15 02:52:40 · answer #10 · answered by Bright 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋