Whats the history behind Karma??
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INDIANS........secret places in your head
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because no one is innocent! have you ever lied??? have you ever made ANYTHING suffer?? like an ant??, it's karma man, and it applies to every living thing, not just to humans...
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I don't call it "karma," but I definately believe in "sowing time and harvest time." When we plant seeds of ill will, gossip, strife, hatred, etc that is what will "come back to us" or what we will harvest. When you plant seeds of goodness, kindness, generosity, etc that is what you will harvest. It's a spiritual law and is every bit as real as the law of gravity!\n\nThe second question, "What are we paying for in this life?" That is a whole different issue. We don't have to pay. I wish people would understand this . . . because God has so much he wants to give us if we will really turn to him and depend on him. Most people get too caught up in other things including busyness, ego, other distractions. But when you get to the point in your life when you are ready to move toward Truth and giving your life back to God . . . that's when you really arrive.
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Very sad that Tomoyo K misunderstood predestination as karma!There were three wrong views during the BUDDHA time:\n1.the belief that everything is the result of acts in previous lives;\n2.the belief that everything is the result of what is willed by a SUPREME CREATOR;\n3.the belief that everything arises without reason or cause.\n\nIf a person becomes a murderer,a thief,or an adulterer,and ,if his or her actions are due to past actions,or are caused by the whim of a Supreme Being,or if it happened by mere chance,then this person could not be held responsible for his or her evil action as everything was predetermined.
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I am so sorry that you and your friend have to experience this tragic incident :(\n\nDont know if you believe in Karma but sometimes it is just a persons time to go, even if it is in a tragic way. Karma can still continue from the mistakes of your past life. Hope my beliefs dont conflict with yours.
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I have gotten some nasty, small minded, ignorant comments.  One guy in particular stand out as being a complete "Penis"...\n\nBut, the way I figure it, Karma will bend him over and rape him in the rump with a rolled up newspaper...  so I don't really sweat it.
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Because judgment day relates to Christianity, which is only a fraction of the world's religion, I would have to lean towards Karma...it just makes better sense to me.
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Your aatma (that's how I spell it) or soul takes many forms. In one life you could be a tree, an insect in the next... and so on.  \n\nI believe in the theory of Karma: What goes around comes around. you naturally pay for any action sooner or later. If it is an evil deed, you suffer in the form of stress, negative vibes in your family affecting members' health... etc. \n\nThis can be explained in the following way: by doing evil, you spread it: somebody else who got caught in the ripple effect of your evil will spread it further, and so on, and eventually you will suffer too. \nIn this way, you have to pay for it in this birth or the next one. \n\nYou may say that the innocent will get caught in the ripple effect too, so why talk about the sinners getting punished? You see, that is the reason why we should prevent evil and not be mere observers. Just because we are not doing anything evil does not make us saints... we should all strive to make this world a better place, just as Gandhiji said. That way we will be able to slow down the ripple effect of evil by starting more and more ripple effects of good. \n\nAccording to the theory of reincarnation, your soul remains intact while you change bodily forms, all the while reaping the fruits of your past actions. \n\nIt's a simple theory of cause and effect.
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Let your authority over yourself never fade, freedom comes from choosing what laws you find appropriate for your life... As we age we learn then we each develop our own personal philosophy's...  life is a smorgasbord of choices, why be limited.   Karma can work with you or against you,  but only if you're not hiding in some religion where you give your will to someone else.
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karma.When your bad it kicks your ***.That's proof.Be good and karma kicks the *** of your enemies.
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Karma is a tricky thing and yet it is very easy to understand.  First, a few things you need to understand. Karma is not something that is awarded or deducted based on some universal guidebook and dispenses or handed out by a mystical karma deity. Karma is a direct result of your own unborn nature reacting to the things you say, do and think. All sentient beings have what we call a 'conscious' mind, a 'subconscious' mind and an unborn or Buddha mind.  \n\nThe unborn mind is that part of us that is innately 'good'. When we learn to use only the unborn mind, or more accurately unlearn the ignoring of the Unborn, then we reach enlightenment. However, until such time as we surrender to the unborn, it is responsible for all our karma. \n\nWhen we behave in a bad manner or when we think improper thoughts, the unborn mind, incapable of lying to itself, directs our lives in accordance to the universal law of cause and effect., a.k.a. Karma. Sometimes these effects are easily recognizable, for instance we have bad dreams about people we love who we have treated badly. This the unborn mind influencing the 'subconscious' mind which in turn influences our 'conscious' mind through our dreams. Or perhaps we have a deep feeing of guilt that gnaws away at our minds until we are compelled to tell the truth. This is the unborn directly affect our 'conscious' mind.  Other times, the works of karma are not so easy to see.  He take actions that cause harm and then we say to our selves, "Why did I do that, I knew it was a bad idea." This is the unborn acting directly on the 'subconscious' mind.  The hardest to see and accept however is when the Unborn mind interacts directly with our lives. For instance, a  person is greedy, selfish and treats others unkindly thought there life. When there body gives out, their Unborn mind reviews their life without ego, attachment or lies.  Then, when the person is reborn, they may be reborn in the realm of hell until they burn up their bad karma, or perhaps they return as a person who is extremely ill or who lives in a poor nation with little hope of escaping poverty and hunger. The Unborn mind passes judgment and is that cause of all karmic punishment. \n\nIt is important to remember that the ward Karma translates as 'action' and often indicates intent or cause. The sum of our previous actions, this life or past lives, creates our present state and the actions we perform now will create our future state until we break the uncontrolled cycle of rebirth buy removing illusions from our life and embrace the Buddha mind or Unborn mind and thus enter Nirvana.\n\nSo, is short, bad karma is the result of past actions and could be the result of actions from previous lives. It is best to just accept it and make do. By accepting our Karma as just punishment we help burn it away. \n\nHowever, It is also important to remember that not everything that goes wrong in your life is a result of karma. If a man walks up to you and slaps you in the face because he doesn’t like the color of your shoes, that was his choice to do so. His karma has been effected. Yours will be effected by how you respond...By respond, I mean what you do, how you act, what you say and what you think. Remember, you can't hide anything from the unborn mind.\n\nI hope this helps.
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There are four laws of karma:\n\n1. Karma is fixed.\n2. Karma increases.\n3. Karmic results are only experienced by one who created the cause for that experience.\n4. Karmic seeds do not lose their potency of their own accord.\n\nRegarding #2 - both positive and negative karmic results increase in potency unless they are obstructed. Positive results can be obstructed by anger, and other negative actions. Negative results can be obstructed through the directed positive actions of our Dharma practice, the Four Opponent Powers and so forth.\n\nRegarding #4 - 'of their own accord' means that unless we intervene with directed positive Dharma actions to purify and transform negative actions, those actions will never lose potency. They will perpetually have the power to bring us suffering.\n\nIf we do not have the power to transform negative karmic results, there is no way for us to attain enlightenment.\n\nThe Buddha stated three things which are misunderstandings about karma ---that everything:\n1) Is here due to no reason\n2) Is the creation of a god\n3) Is completely controlled by karma (so it becomes like a fate).\n\nWe can go on and on about how people suffer, whether someone is born without an arm or whether one is persecuted during a war or holocaust. I think the misunderstanding is the person who asked you the question is assuming that karma is a fate system. Karma is not a fate system.\n\nKarma plants a seed, and when certain conditions are around, that karmic seed ripens. Your life is not predetermined.\n\nkarma does not fall into these misunderstandings. The seed for the particular karma was present and was able to ripen under the conditions (such as an unhealthy maternity)... not because it was predetermined!\n\n*** simply stated, they'll have to wait til their 'bad seeds of karma' in their previous lives, to wear off.
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Maybe it's the laws of karma or divine justice. All things, good and bad, have their fair effect upon us at one time or another. "What you sow, so you shall reap", said in these same words or similar by Our Lord, Buddha, or however you may want to call it. Pain or suffering that we might inflict unto others, deliberately or not, will come back to haunt us later; either in this life or the next.
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Very interesting Q!Since you already know that you are creating bad karma,why don't you do something about it?Try creating more good karma by having love and compassion for all.
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Every religion believes in some sort of afterlife. Karma is generally associated with the earth based religions such as Wicca. Wiccans believe your soul is eternal, and the body is a vessel to travel through life. Each time you pass on, you assume a new form. Only when the soul has experienced all that can be experienced, it will stop this cycle and move on to a place called the "Summerlands". Hope this helps a bit.
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Karma is action, reaction. However it is also very personal and singular. What is bad karma for me, may not be for you. Since each person has their own life, and their own personality. There are of course several things that are always destine to give bad karma. Killing other living things springs to mind. Remember that anything negative can bring negative karma, so dependent on your reasoning for the divorce it could bring bad karma, or good.
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Don't worry sweetie....You keep on taking the high road in life. Your friend will learn, soon enough, that karma is a b1tch!!!