KARMA

[harris7]

Sorry it was actually my Philosophy of Religion Teacher.

He’s a smart guy, I probably misunderstood him

[Amun]

This is a good description.

but also, ifyou hear person A shot person B , would you really have the same amount of trust (or completely same opinion) for person A than if he wouldnt have doen something that bad?

but, i dont know....i kinda to believe in karma.

[Amun]

ok, my post doesnt make sense to me anymore

;D

[JunkYard]

lmao, Amun...it didn't make sense to me, either. Smoke a bowl and maybe it'll come back to ya!!

:thumbsup:

[Amun]

lol i think thats what the problem was.

;D

[JeenYuss]

I think karma is proof of the power of our own minds. Things we do good, and things we do bad get imprinted in the back of our minds. Then we reward ourselves or punish ourselves.

o yea billionfold i was guna ask u the other day but i 4got

does yr name have something to do with the threefold/sevenfold/tenfold law of return thats in most religions

[iPot]

I beleive in Karma. But I don't think it's anything to do with punishment or reward, I think these are abstractions we have placed upon our perception of what Karma is. I read a book* once about how life and ecosystems are based on self regulating chaotic networks. The nature of Chaos is such that it is repetitive, but never in the same way, like the snowflake. Karma is a conceptual manifestation, or an isomorphism of this scientific perspective.

I tihnk I have experienced both the rewarding and the punishing effects of Karma. I recently did something bad, nothing like realy terrible or anything, but something I felt ashamed of afterwards for a long time. It wasn't until I experienced the exact same thing in a reciprocal sense that I got over the guilt of my sin, like I felt that the instance had resettled an imbalance I had created and I was eventually in some way grateful it had happened. I broke one of the ten commandments, look you know I'm not preaching Christianity here, but I really think what it is saying is fundamentally correct and pretty much the same as what other religious texts are saying. Anyway, without going into the detail I swear this must be more than a coincidence.

*The Web of Life - Capra
with perhaps Chaos - Gleick as Capra doesn't explain Chaos in enough detail

[MarzVooolta]

When people think of Karma , there perception of Karma is just.. flawed. Your automatically inclined to have thoughts of good and evil and "what comes around goes around" but thats a Western outlook. The Koran and other holy books and well as many literature explain Karma as not a system of reward vs punishment but a system of polarity. In reality there is no "good and bad." Right and wrong only have meaning when you assign it; perception is subjective. This is how I always explained Karma. Its is a circle that one goes though and along this circle are experiences that require decisions that will change the outcome of your life and , based upon what your senses tell, you label something as positive or negative . This triggers an energy that leads you to the next experience that may have steered you off your "ideal path", like a chain reaction that eventually "sees its way back around" and you experience the direct opposite sensation of that origina experience with which you associated good and bad karma with.

[Erosea]

Thats probably the best theory about karma ive ever heard. Our minds are verry powerful and we have only scratched the surface of them. The average human only uses about 12% of their brain. Their are so many secrets that we haven't unlocked yet.

Actually.... we use just about 100% of our brains. I don't know how that ridiculous rumor got started, but it isn't true. Perhaps we don't use our minds to their full potentials (which *is* most likely true!), but we do use all of it, at least a little bit.

Anyway, about the original post, yes, I do believe in karma. You reap what you sow, what comes around goes around, etc. I'm not sure why it works that way, it could be our own minds causing it (as one person suggested) or it could be the natural order of things, or it could be some kind of God imposing it - I don't know. My take on karma is like this, if you're ignorant in this life, if you go off your path, if you don't experience and learn what's given to you, then you're just going to have to try and learn the same lessons again in the next life.

And to the person who said something about it only being added to Buddhist thought several hundred years ago - I don't know if that's true or not (my gut reaction is that it isn't) but the idea of karma began thousands of years ago with Hinduism, and later carried over to Buddhism and other similar Eastern religions.

[PureEvil760]

dont really understand karma but i believe you pay your karma after you die then after your done you return to god (yourself)