Do you believe in Karma?

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I believe in Karma amd reincarnation, many Buddhist beliefs!

To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Now THAT is Karma.

ruveyn

this might be related to karma- anybody here ever hear of richard w. wetherill and his book "Right is Might"? it is an elaboration of a "self-enforcing natural law" mr. wetherill is said to have identified, which states that people are required to think, say, and do what is proper in order to get a proper result, and that the reason people have personal problems or trouble, is that something is wrong with their thinking, conversation, and behavior.

I believed in reincarnation in my last two lifetimes... but not any more.

I dont believe in Karma.

I think it was made up by a bunch of people who were pissed off and bitter at a bunch of other people and wanted to invent some silly concept to feel better about themselves. At least this is how my friends tend to approach this. They believe in Karma on the basis that they're unpopular and are thus bound to get rewarded someday and have the popular kids from school suffer.

Everywhere I go, I see people use Karma as a concept to put down other people or to as a quick fix to their problems. I've had a lot of people hurt me. I doubt an act of Karma is gonna get them to come and apologize to me or repair the wrongs they inflicted on me since Karma is more of a unexpected circumstance that people won't see the connection to. Alot of the people who hurt me are considered naturally good people in the NT world but I'm an exception to the rule as far as treatment goes. They believe that hurting me should be my Karma for being unintentionally rude to them.

And then there's people who think they're doing good in order to get a quick reward. In other words, Karma is just a phrase people are using to their own advantage. No one else's.

Unfortunately the world doesn't work like that. Just because the concept of Karma has been good to you doesn't mean it has been for others who are supposedly good. And besides, do you really want to know if your suffering is due to a wrong action you've committed...or maybe one your parents committed...or praying to the wrong religion? Do I really wanna know if just having AS is an act of bad Karma unto itself? Do I really want to see other people suffer even if they have hurt or wronged me? My answer to all of that is no. I'm too bitter about all the hurt in my life to even give a s**t whether or not my enemies will ever get punished because I don't ever see them ever coming to the realization that they hurt me or will ever have the slightest remorse about it. I'm sure I've been pretty much forgotten on my enemies' radars which is a good thing I suppose.

I accept the world as it is. No force or circumstance is rewarding or punishing you for your actions. In the end you are the judge and sometimes you will feel happy, sad, mad, or you will feel nothing at all in any given situation. That is just how it goes.

Nope.
I have a real problem understanding what a three year old does that warrants being sold to grown men to "cure" their AIDS,
or dogs who are trained to rip each other apart for entertainment,
or people who suffer in agony because they can't afford healthcare.

It's kind of disturbing there are people who believe that the immense suffering in this world is somehow deserved.

I believe in cause and effect, but I'm a Deist. I do not believe there is some cosmic force doling out karma.

Karma is what you believe it to be. If you do good, and you feel good about it, then that feeling is perceived as karma. If you did something bad, and feel guilty.. that's the word to describe the negative vibes you feel by your actions, as negative karma to your consciousness.

Karma- the good or bad emanations felt to be generated by someone or something.

your karma just ran over my dogma.

I accept actions have consequences, and that burning down orphanages and stealing from friends will make people do bad things to you. Altruism is reciprocal.

I do not believe in a God imposing bad things on bad people, simply because that's not what happens. There is no Cosmic Justice.