Quote Originally Posted by Antihero867
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.