how do i apply karma to my life?

Question

i am having trouble applying karma to my life.i have known about it now for a about a year and have tried to apply it though i always go back to my old ways.i know there is no mircale sure just to make it happen,so what iam asking how did you apply it to your life.anyway thanks for your help

Answer 1

You're a work in progress -- we all are. We all make mistakes, we all forget the spiritual truths we learn.

Karma is about action, and duty. It is something to strive for to treat each person you meet with respect, to help those you can, to be loving towards strangers. It takes daily effort to live that way, and we all have good days and bad days. Fortunately, since belief in Karma is often part of a belief in Reincarnation, you'll have several lifetimes to get it right.

Don't sweat it, just do your best, and forgive yourself when you mess up.

Answer 2

Karma is not something that can be applied to your daily life. It is an aspect of the Law of Cause and Effect. If you open your eyes and look carefully at your life, you will see that the choices we make either lead to happiness or unhapiness.

The thing with karma is that when you acquire negative karma you will have to pay for it. It may not happen in this life or in your next life, but it will happen.

There are eight mindufl steps that help you to reduce some of your negative karma and help you reduce the amount of negative karma you acquire through your everyday life.

Right Understanding
Right Thinking
Right Speech
Right Action
Right Livlihood
Right Effort
Right Mindfulness
Right Meditation (Concentration

When you cause suffering to others, you acquire more additional negative karma. In short don't do or say things that can cause suffering to others. There is a lot more to this but this is not the forum to explain in more depth.

To live mindfully takes a lot of work to learn and understand it. Once you have a good understanding applying these skills to your life you notice that you cause less suffering to others and you gain more happiness.

I am a Buddhist so I have been taught these since I was small. You may want to look at a book called "Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness" by Bhante Henepola Guanaratana. This will give you a very good understanding of the Eight steps and what you need to do to apply these to your life.

Good luck.

Answer 3

Do you know what is your question? Anyway. Karma means the law of action and reaction, namely for any of your activities you will get a particular reaction, without doing some special endeavor. No, if you want to get free from karma the law of action and reaction what will result in your spiritual upliftment than do some karma-yoga. Give a art of the result of your activities for spiritual welfare. Or perform bhakti yoga the yoga of devotion. Look on the Internet what this means.

Answer 4

Karma takes care of its self, it is best to just sit back and let it. People who cause harm will receive harm 3 times over. If you try to created payback, your negative response will also be payed back 3 times over ( unresolved karma becomes darma). Unfortunately, we have to wait for reward for good actions until we go home..to the other side. Which is a better reward. On this plain good things don't happen to good people, but that shouldn't stop you from doing good.

Answer 5

You need to ask yourself why you want to do so.

Your motivations in life are a big part of the puzzle.

edit; of course, realising that particular peice is difficult, and it takes both patience and wisdom to look at that peice without other things clouding your vision.

If you eventually realise it, you might find yourself staring at something you were looking at all along, except now you know what it is.

p.s; if, like me a few years ago, you have difficulty making sense of all this - start with trying to understand what it is that motivates other people before trying to understand your own.

Answer 6

From what I've read, I thought the karma you generated in your previous life is running this life for you, and the way you live this life is generating the karma for your next life. That is, until you break free of all that and become enlightened.

Edit: to clarify, my point was that you wouldn't be able to change the karma which is affecting your life right now, which it sounded to me like you were trying to do. Sorry if I was mistaken.

Answer 7

We know every one of us has a spark of the intelligence purity in us, which explains why one of the great works we need to do is to sweeten judgments, to ask for mercy and kindness to come down on everybody. Even if sometimes it seems like a decree has been given and the judgment is starting to come down, the righteous person strives to continue to ask for, in our mind, in our meditations, to never give up, to ask for mercy for others, and for the world any true spirituality, trains you to reach the healthy decisions by committing to turning down the ego voice at all turns. Ego is what keeps us in selfish and impure motives that eventually causes harm to others and ultimately to our selves. So what is suggested is to live your life with constant compassion and caring of others ultimately it is reflected in this life not is some obscure past life or future life.

Answer 8

I am a Wiccan and i live by the rule of "an it harm none do what thou will" . Its not easy to constantly live with a moral conscience and of course we cannot always see how our actions will influence people or future events
My humble opinion is we are learning the lessons we are supposed to be just by living all we can all do is our best. After all, we are just human :)

Doe x

Answer 9

Are you watching your thoughts as well as your actions?