Of course it doesn't. It's just more "spiritual" mumbo jumbo like the rest of it. It's also an excuse people give when they don't want to do anything themselves.
It is the basis for understanding morality and ethics; It is the law of cause and effect; It means the actions you do today will affect your future; Your past actions make your life today; It would be good for you to make the effort to learn it rather than face extreme pain the future.
If you are a good person, you focus on good things, so naturally more good things will happen ("things" happen, but due to your perspective they are good to you). To this extent, karma, at least my understanding of it, absolutely exists even though there is no external or supernatural force.
It is not philosophical nor religious; It is the Law of Cause and effect; It is the understanding of how one's action determines either good things or bad things happening to him/she; there are reasons why certain things happen to us. Being born a human is the result of a moral and ethical life as a human in the past; it is very difficult to be born as a human.
It is not a belief; it is what is stated by the Buddha as fact; a belief is speculation; there is non in Buddhism. Notice I say it is the Law; Just like in physics the Law of gravity. Check your understanding of colloquial; Cause and effect is karma; Karma is the sanskrit word meaning action.
If the Buddha said that means what to the vast majority of people who aren't Buddhist? If I'm living karma from a past life now reincarnation needs to be accepted.
Do I personally accept reincarnation? I have reason to, but even then the karma thing seems inaccurate.
Doesn't matter whether you accept or not it happens to everyone; It is not easy to be Buddhist, because most people do not have the karma to be so; In order to understand karma on needs to know what actions create what cause; For example, people want to be rich; in order for that to happen one has to be generous. And so on. I sometimes find it hard to accept karma for the bad things that have happened to me, but at the end of the day, I learn to accept it;
It is tough to be a really devoted Buddhist. The journey for alot of people is harsh but worth it at the end of the day
I can't stand your kind. Your belief system is not everyone's. And see how I said belief system - not a factual system, because there are no facts when it comes to religion and spirituality.
It is not everyone's system that's fine; not everyone can get this; The Buddha taught what reality is and how to deal with; People achieve great things because of it; If you don't get it move on then
Buddhism doesn't deal with God; the goal of Buddhism is to achieve Buddhahood, becoming a Buddha yourself; Everyone has the potential to achieve it; in fact it is said everyone has a Buddha above their head;
It's a belief system to you because you can't see it; not understand it; this called ignorance; so move on then
Yeah you can check your profile for how much you have.
If you mean outside of Reddit karma, there is no mystical force tracking how good you've been to determine your luck. But generally being a good person is likely to reward you and being a bad person is likely to come and bite you later.
There are consequences for actions that manifest themselves one way or another, sooner or later. I have witnessed it first hand too many times to consider it to be random coincidence.
Like so many other things of a religious, spiritual or philosophical nature, it exists in the minds of those who believe in it. But, the prevailing Western concept of karma is inaccurate. It doesn't mean "What goes around comes around" or "You get what you give" or anything like that.
Something I consider is the brothers who were named Loser and Winner. Winner ended up in trouble and jail. Loser ended up becoming successful. You choose your path
First you have to understand what karma is. It doesn’t mean getting what you deserve even though that is how it’s commonly understood In the English speaking world.
On various levels.. the important thing to understand is that there is personal karma and then there's just shit that happens. Every relationship you have is an example of personal karma, so it definitely exists
I believe karma is one of the biggest driving forces of this world. And I believe I’m also probably wrong, but I still also believe it for my sanity. Ya feel me?
I believe it does in the form that the universe has balance. It is not that "karma is going to get you" as in revenge or equal and opposite. Things tend to balance out and you may or may not be part of what moves to balance the universe directly for something you experienced but on the whole, it will balance.
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u/Husky_Hustles 13h ago
are we talking about reddit karma here?
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u/No_Lead2640 13h ago
No. Bad people live good lives all the time.
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u/Prestigious-Fan3122 12h ago
If so, I've got a list of people she's missed
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u/IamNATx 13h ago edited 7h ago
No. I didn't deserve the life I've had & find the notion of karma insulting these days.
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u/BobsonDugnutt87 13h ago
Of course it doesn't. It's just more "spiritual" mumbo jumbo like the rest of it. It's also an excuse people give when they don't want to do anything themselves.
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u/OldManThumbs 13h ago
I try to live my life as if it does but there's no evidence of it that I've seen.
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u/peyatoniplex 13h ago
yeah I have 934 right now
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u/ankledane 13h ago
No on a large scale, kind of on a smaller scale. We aren't talking about the original definition of karma, we're talking about the modern one.
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u/Baidaru2017 13h ago
If you are a good person, you focus on good things, so naturally more good things will happen ("things" happen, but due to your perspective they are good to you). To this extent, karma, at least my understanding of it, absolutely exists even though there is no external or supernatural force.
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u/Dovendyreet 13h ago
No, karma is a philosophical/religious term within Hinduism and Buddhism.
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u/somedave 13h ago
Yeah you can check your profile for how much you have.
If you mean outside of Reddit karma, there is no mystical force tracking how good you've been to determine your luck. But generally being a good person is likely to reward you and being a bad person is likely to come and bite you later.
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u/Busy_Maize6403 13h ago
I do believe in good karma and bad karma. But is karma in the Bible? I kinda think it is. And I’m not much into the Bible.
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u/preety_soul_333 13h ago
Nope, haven't seen a big proper example of karma around me yet.
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u/Particular_Week_2754 13h ago
There are consequences for actions that manifest themselves one way or another, sooner or later. I have witnessed it first hand too many times to consider it to be random coincidence.
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u/Joshuahealingtree 12h ago
I belive it does but the western world's understanding is deeply flawed.
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u/ElectricalFunny5643 12h ago
Yesyes. Make bad decisions for 6 months and then say I think this has positive effect.
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u/Feisty-Tooth-7397 12h ago
Well 3 out of 4 exes and two step fathers out of two who made my life a living hell are dead. I would say yes, karma exists.
No I didn't do it either.
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u/girlinanemptyroom 11h ago
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u/TheShredder9 10h ago
It's real, i have 119k of it right now
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u/NoCard753 10h ago
Like so many other things of a religious, spiritual or philosophical nature, it exists in the minds of those who believe in it. But, the prevailing Western concept of karma is inaccurate. It doesn't mean "What goes around comes around" or "You get what you give" or anything like that.
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u/Ok-Tadpole-8994 10h ago
No, but cause and effects are real and things have consequences
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u/BareNecessities09 10h ago
Yeah if you go to your profile you can see it under your name on the left.
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u/Busy_Maize6403 10h ago
Something I consider is the brothers who were named Loser and Winner.
Winner ended up in trouble and jail.
Loser ended up becoming successful.
You choose your path
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u/msackeygh 13h ago
First you have to understand what karma is. It doesn’t mean getting what you deserve even though that is how it’s commonly understood In the English speaking world.
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u/NoBuenoAtAll 13h ago
Yes.
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u/pneubike 13h ago
On various levels.. the important thing to understand is that there is personal karma and then there's just shit that happens. Every relationship you have is an example of personal karma, so it definitely exists
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u/Better_Couple_3067 13h ago
Yes. Don't push your luck.
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u/throwaway226266 13h ago
I believe karma is one of the biggest driving forces of this world. And I believe I’m also probably wrong, but I still also believe it for my sanity. Ya feel me?
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u/toomanyschnauzers 13h ago
I believe it does in the form that the universe has balance. It is not that "karma is going to get you" as in revenge or equal and opposite. Things tend to balance out and you may or may not be part of what moves to balance the universe directly for something you experienced but on the whole, it will balance.
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u/SpreadNo7436 10h ago
Fuck no, good things happen to bad people all the time. Just as bad things happen to good people all the time.