Karma
Contrary to popular misconception, karma has nothing to do with punishment and reward. It exists as part of our lives only to teach us responsibility for our doings.
Karma moves in two directions. If we act virtuously, the seed we plant will result in happiness. If we act non-virtuously, suffering results. As we have planted, so do we harvest; such is the way of karma. We pay for what we do, and still more, for what we have allowed ourselves to become. For the innocent, the past may hold a reward. But for the treacherous, it's only a matter of time before the past delivers what we truly deserve.
If you sow goodwill, you will harvest well. When positive things are made, that returns well. There will always be karma to be taken care of. How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. We are not punished for our sins, but by them.
Karma comes after everyone eventually. You can't get away with screwing people over your whole life; what goes around comes around. That's how it works. If you sow winds you shall reap storms. Sooner or later you will get you what you deserve.
Don't waste time on revenge. The people who hurt you will eventually face their own karma. Karma bides its time. Karma is unforgiving and always gets payback. You dare not do harm to someone because someone has done harm to you. You will pay just like they will.
Whatever you give to life, it gives you back. Do not hate anybody. The hatred which comes out from you will someday come back to you. Love others. And love will come back to you.
Karma has a surprising way of taking care of situations. All you have to do is to sit back and wait.
Comments (53)
Okay, sorry I misread it as Kama.
Karma in Buddhism is much deeper than this Cat. But I like your way of putting it.
Agree with you 100%. I have learnt to laugh at everything because what doesn't kill me shouldn't hurt me. What ever others say or do are beyond my control. What comes around always goes around, they say.
How very progressive and fair minded of you!
I suppose it does but I tried to keep religion out of it. This is more or less my take on it. Plenty more I could have said but I did not want the blog to get too long.
When in fact if someone hurted me, according to Karma, I already hurted someone else.
Hmm, I fail to see where I suggested freeing all criminals. This is just my view on the topic, which I believe I'm entitled to the same as you and everybody else.
If you disagree with me you're welcome but kindly shove the sarcasm up somewhere where the sun doesn't shine. Perhaps you have been exposed to too much of this kind of politics in your country.
Hmm, it is possible but there is another possibility. I had a schoolfriend whose father gave him hidings for the things he still planned to do wrong.
Quite. Peace in the mind is an asset often underestimated.
No doctrine is flawless but it is interesting that you find a lot of karma in both the old and new testaments. Many of the things Jesus said amounted to karma.
It’s very much a belief where princes deserve to be princes because they are princes, and peasants deserve to be peasants because they are peasants. Karma is more right-wing than capitalism and personal responsibility, it’s closer to feudalism which could explain the numerous dictatorial states in the Far East and the reason Orientals follow orders without question. The only exception being Hong Kong because it’s so heavily influenced by Britain and the west.
Karma is just a religious belief and..as Chris says...most tend to blame karma for whatever happens in their life.
Hiya Cat . Interesting topic.
The only reason (imo) why people from the Orient follow orders blindly is because it is rather futile to argue with a soldier and a gun. The communist and totalitarian regimes of the East - and elsewhere - maintain law and order by means of fear. Power comes from the barrel of a machinegun.
I think it is silly to blame karma for whatever goes wrong. We are - or should be - in charge of our own lives and good positive (do to other blah blah...) deeds do bring positive results and many will agree that the opposite is also true.
your post is words to explain your point of view, but feelings/emotions/thoughts aren't there the past present future isn't there.........my points are there is more than just words and sentences to describe what outcome will be , also can God cancel out all of your karma because he knows your past 100% meaning he rebuked other peoples judgement of oneself......can you see my points ?
Yes, I do but bear in mind that not everybody is religious. To me, karma is not a religion but a simple philosophy and a way of living.
weather religious or not the ''truth'' is there and still shines everyday
True but then who knows the whole truth as it is? We all have our personal theories and beliefs; we are entitled to them but what proof do any of us have of our beliefs? The mere fact that a lot of other people have the same belief does not prove anything.
Maybe change the name of this philosophy to Farma (reap what you sow) to circumnavigate past lives and religious aspects of Karma?
That is not sarcasm.
This is how I "translate" the word Karma:
"Whoever does an atom's weight of good will see it, And whoever does an atom's weight of evil will see it.
In one word, it's consequences..
Cannabis dispensaries.
It would have been nice to reap hashish after planting cannabis.
I assume that is if we live long enough. The way I understand it, karma can be a rather slow worker.
This is what a trip to the dispensary looks like these days.
God said he was the truth.......and I believe this 100%.....................
This is crazy. Sweets are cheaper at the Greek's cafe on the corner.
I'm reading a book about some American guy caught while trying to smuggle two kilos of hashish from Turkey. Got himself thirty years for something that's legal in some countries. Anyway, I believe he escaped after 5 years but I'm not that far with the book yet.
Then go for it. There are many who will agree with you and probably the same number who won't.
God is the fair judgement upon our souls in all elements IMO
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Whatever you say.
Quite so. It's the same thing. Not exactly a book to keep me riveted but it's been sitting collecting dust on a shelf for too long. I won't be looking at the movie. I have found that to enjoy both, I must look at the movie before reading the book.
However, it flies in the face of the often observed "no good deed goes unpunished".
You're the first one who read the blog in the spirit that it was written; slightly tongue in the cheek.
Btw, I went back some years the other day and found you a very long way back. You must certainly be one of the longest-serving members here. Are you aware of active members being here longer than you? Not important, I'm just curious.
from further knowledge from a higher power, can the higher power cancel one's wrongs..........big question folks
If your higher being had the ability to cancel our wrongs it would point to him having a 'Save' and a 'Restore' button which makes us a simulation gone wrong. That's another notion I cannot support.
I read up before god invented life, on earth...........bottom line is we wouldn't be speacking now 2019. cheer up brother the father loves ya kk?
I sure hope that this is not going to be a religious blog. We're straying too far off the topic. And as I don't share your beliefs, I have not much interest in it. I'd appreciate it if we could return to the topic at hand.
I understand and I will always ...!
Caine.
easy to live like that.
Cat,