What goes around comes around. Do you believe in karma?

Question

Do you believe in that?

Answer 1

Definitely. Although sometimes it's hard to wait for it.

Answer 2

I keep trying to believe in Karma but find it hard when you do the right thing consistantly and others don't yet they seem to be the one with all the spoils.

At this stage I haven't given up on it, but would like to see some of this good karma for a change.

Answer 3

Think of it this way. If you tell someone a lie, you then have to invent all sorts of other lies to back up the first lie. Pretty soon the lie has taken on a life of it's own and you are getting back the fruit of the lie you told. If you harm someone else, you become more callous toward others and it becomes more of a habit for you and what you are putting out begins to come back to harm you. Let's say, on the other hand, that you are good to someone. Your good action helps to soften yourself up to the world and others in your life. Pretty soon you start to realize that you can be kind to anybody. In that way your actions perpetuate themselves into the future in your actions and reactions to the world. Think of it also in this way. You are in the situation you are in because of all the decisions and actions you have committed throughout your life. Now you find yourself in a situation where you have a number of choices of behavior that you can choose from, both positive an negative, and your current situation is a result of all of the choices you have made in the past. And consider that you don't come into this life as a blank slate. You can even notice differences in identical twins soon after they are born. This is because they have been born already with some habitual tendencies that came from previous lifetimes. Consider also that some people are born in terrible poverty, and others are born with all of life's advantages. Where do these differences come from? The question of karma need not be so mystical. It's just the product of the choices we make and our behavior.

I notice that many people say that they do not believe in karma because they have been nice to everyone and they keep getting harm in return. The whole ancient idea of karma is that is goes through many lifetimes. Why don't they take the opposite point of view, that because they are getting harmed in this lifetime that it must indeed be because of their karma, because there is no other explanation that works? You see, it is a mistake to think that what you are experiencing in this life has nothing to do with what has happened in previous lives. Consider a person living in hell who is so nice to their torturers. Every day the torturer comes around to torture them and they just try to be very nice to them, and the torturers just keep doing their job torturing them. Could it be that your existence today is a product of your decisions in past lives, and despite that, you are managing to finally turn things around and be nice to your torturers. That's the only way to finally turn things around, by finally going against the conventional logic of constantly having to take revenge on others and starting to have compassion for those who harm you. That's even what the Bible says. Be kind to those who harm you, turn the other cheek, and love your enemies. In that way we reverse our bad karma and learn to be kind and loving people.

Answer 4

Yes, I do believe in Karma. Here's a good story about karma.
My ex boyfriend lied to me, cheated on me, used me, abused me.... in one of his "episodes" of cheating on me he ended up getting a girl pregnant after only knowing her two weeks. The girl is now having serious complications with her pregnancy and an 80% chance of loosing the child. He never wanted her to get pregnant and now he's trapped because of the baby.

Answer 5

Absolutely. I've seen it in practice. I told a guy that used to be a friend of mine that karma was gonna get him if he didn't change his criminal ways. A week later he was stabbed to death by a jealous boyfriend. It had nothing to do with his criminal activity, but Karma got him; just like I said.

Answer 6

Yes

Answer 7

Yes

Answer 8

Absolutely. I may not be a religious person but I do believe that every little thing you do comes back to you in one way or more.

Answer 9

it doesn't matter if you believe in karma,'cause it believes in you.cause and effect is the simplest law of physics governing actions on this planet.

Answer 10

yes! omg lol
my friends and i have a joke, cuz whenever i do something bad to someone, it comes right backa and hits me in the face!! (karma)

Answer 11

Yup