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A quick we search found wikipedia to be confusing but I did find the following:
"In Buddhist teaching, the law of karma, says only this: `for every event that occurs, there will follow another event whose existence was caused by the first, and this second event will be pleasant or unpleasant according as its cause was skillful or unskillful.' A skillful event is one that is not accompanied by craving, resistance or delusions; an unskillful event is one that is accompanied by any one of those things. (Events are not skillful in themselves, but are so called only in virtue of the mental events that occur with them.)
"Therefore, the law of Karma teaches that responsibility for unskillful actions is born by the person who commits them."
So its not the karma that is good or bad, it's just a force of nature) but the quality of intent a person put into their actions?
I hope you have a great weekend, Chanda.
Karma is basically cause and effect. The cause (or action) may or may not be intentional, but the effect will be an appropriate response to the cause.
people who talk about having bad karma, in fact just keep repeating the negative causes. Karms is not punishment, but in fact the effects of actions. Sort of like lessons - touch the hot burner and you will get burned, every time. Karma keeps burning you until you learn your lesson and stop touching the burner.
You wouldn't get burned if you didn't touch the stove. So you are not rewarded, you just learned your lesson, stopped the chain of cause and effect and your "bad" karma seemed to have gone away.
Good karma is simply that you don't have any "bad" karma. While I have joked about good karma points, there is no such thing as stockpiling karma. LOL
That's the watered down version
I guess if people want good karma, and their higher powers can't seem to keep them being good people, then I suppose the perceived punishment of karma can be borrowed.
Have a lovely weekend!!!
Just stopping in to say hello. I always thought Karma was relative to a persons deeds, regardless of those deeds being good or bad. sorta like you reap what you sow. have a good one.
But it still annoys me when people use the word in a chic'esque way
Bear Hugs!
PolarB ;)
You missed a preachy, Chanda bitch session. That's just about it
I got my bitch on about people that preach God and use Karma.....I see it as a chic-esque use of a word that, if one believes in God, cannot also believe in the true meaning of Karma. I can't even say I wholly believe in Karma any more.
I guess I just felt like being an asshole, really
Hawk.