Well, who does believe in Karma: I aint't talking about the karma point icon thingy, Oh no someone has been smiting me oh fuck lets fucking whinge about it

i mean for me over the last few weeks things have gone awol, Like my Pc Crapping out, My Skilsaw Burnt out..... and a few days later My 18volt cordless drill shit itself (still Under Warranty) then last Saturday i put my arm through a plate glass window I wasn't cut bad just knicked my hand..... as soon as I had done that, my wifey just gave me that look, you know that look You @#$% @#$%
Insurance job but you've still got to pay an Access fee of $250 Insurance companies suck

So is karma real is it. ! what you put out what you get back, And also my bathroom floor rotted out ended up being new floor new toilet, new bath new vanity oh for fsake
Karmas a bitch

I have for some time been interested in Buddhism. It feels right to me. I don't think karma works exactly like a spiritual bank account but maybe I have it wrong. I swear lately I feel like karma appears to be backwards though which makes me wonder.

i think its kind of just a way to describe how life works.. if you surround yourself in shit you have to deal with the smell and diseases and flies. maybe its not the little things, its the big picture. accidents and stuff happen, but its probably more subtle than that.
for accidents to be karma, you'd have to say that karma could make decisions on how to punish people and be able to weigh consequences of yours and its actions.
so what am i saying.. its the wind that fills your sails. or some shit like that.

I look at it like this,man made things will break or wear out,our bodies wear out and don't have the flexibility or strength of youth as we age.

Karma good or bad, is how we are able to react to the things that happen to us, even if you get a terminal illness, and are in incredible pain and misery, how you react determines your Karma good or bad.

Some luck will happen to you in your path of life, some of us remain healthy, some are blessed all their lives with money, some have happy lives, but no matter what your lot in life is, it's how you react to each situation you deal with that determines what is called your Karma, good or bad.

So yes I believe in a Karma of a sort, just what it is I'm not sure of

Until we just finally die, and no longer have to react to things.

I feel your pain Black Cloud, that sounds like a bad episode from my life..

I think we really get what we order, output is the input. What you leave behind, you'll find in front of you.

I'm not sure I believe in it as a hard & fast law of nature as such. But there is something, imo, in like attracting like, where energies are concerned.

I just think when you're in a happy frame of mind, good things seem to happen naturally. And when you're stamping about cursing, that's when your car breaks down, passing birds crap on your head, and the in-laws make an unexpected appearance.

How can anyone believe in karma when young kids get tortured and murdered that never did anything wrong?

What about all the babies that die before they ever leave the hospital, what type of karma is that?

Can someone please explain this to me.

That's 3 times you've posted that in the last few weeks. ^

Gilly wrote:
Because no one can explain it...

How can karma be real with so many innocent young people dying from starvation illness and murder?

RealAmerican wrote:
If there were such a thing as karma, I think the idea is that it is with you throughout your various 'existences'. That's how I've heard it explained before, anyway. Hence, from your pov, someone may be entirely innocent, but could have done something terrible in a previous existence to earn whatever fate has befallen them.

Not saying I buy it, at all, but I think that is the gist. I've never really got it though as to me, 'good' and 'evil' hence bad behaviour and good behaviour, are entirely subjective, imo, as well as being subject to the whims and fashions of whatever particular period in history, geographical location and type of society you happen to have been born into.

How's that?

i guess cos its not karma.. its harsh reality.

Ab Origine wrote:
Yea, so basically people need to believe in religion to explain negative karma from past lifetimes?

Why don't people just be kind to each other and live in harmony without the fear of bad karma?

Am I wrong to have such a hard time understanding this?

RealAmerican wrote:
No...not religion, but they need to form some opinion about spirituality and their own 'beliefs', certainly.

And no, you're not alone in not getting it. It's one of those subjects you really have to have "faith" (haha...see what I did there?) in and commit yourself to, to a degree.

Would someone who believes passionately in karma behave very differently from someone who doesn't in terms of how they treat other people and go about their daily business? Quite possibly. Which one is right? Fucked if I know...

I 'believe' that the prevalent notion of what karma is is utter bollocks. A complete bastardisation no doubt stemming from some 1960s hippy twat.

I'd like to believe in Karma... but have yet to see it at work unless I am or someone I know is the one delivering the karma on some SOB who desperately deserves it. And if it does exist, it needs to start answering some questions I have.

StarsChildren wrote:
Just got knocked on my arse by some nobber running out the door.

I says to 'im, I says "Ere! 'Ave a care!!", I says (for some reason, the fall had made me start to talk like someone from an Elstree film).

To which he responds "Sorry Guvnor...my name's Karma. Nice to meet you. I've got to run as that Stars is after me for summink or nuffink. Fuck that!!"

At which point, he carried on running.

So, you can all stop talking about him now. Stars has sorted it.

dubmeup wrote:
I understand and have seen what your saying

Kind of like the expression in the martial arts Ki and many argue or are not sure what it is. and Karma may fit into this category of hard to explain things.A example of this particular definition of the word, you could also use the word Karma in a way.

Check this out as a example .................
www.bodymindandmodem.com/KiEx/KiEx.html

Ki is just life-force energy, as use in Reiki - same as the Chi in Tai Chi.

Your mission, Dubs, should you choose to accept it, is to discover the true pre-bastardised meaning karma.

Black Cloud wrote:
TBH if you think Karma is giving you some trouble with that list, then your one lucky fucker. I think you may need to look at some real life problems people have to live with on a day to day basis, mental traumas and physical handicaps just to mention 2

Begger me. Hello merc