Anyone who know what Karma is?

[NightWatchman95]

Early death is only a penalty for people who lack faith in a life beyond this one. When you know that this life is just a chapter, you don't feel the need to prolong your "life" unnecessarily.

Do not mourn for the young dead, celebrate their return to heaven.

My daughter died at 20 months old from Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. There is nothing to mourn. She's in heaven with the rest of my family and we can talk any time we want. This isn't an abstract hypothetical to me.

Karma means cause and effect. I never held my daughter because I left the state and broke up with her mom before she was born. I video called all the time, but I thought I had time, so I wanted to do the trip "right". Hindsight's 20/20, I could've made the trip by just buying a plane ticket and sleeping in a ditch for a weekend, but I didn't, so I never held her before she died. That's karma. That's cause and effect. My actions then led to my situation now.

Karma is a physical law, or rather, the culmination of physical laws. Understanding how the world works, how it will react to your actions, is understanding your own karma.

"Oh no, you flip burgers and believe in karma, you have a slave mentality!"

Oh no, you like eating burgers and I decide how closely to obey the hold timers in the cabinet. I guess that makes me the master of your lunch's destiny.

i feel so sorry for your loss anyways. didint meet to touch on something so personal...

 

[IllusiveOwl]

i guess everyone wants to overlook that karma can be used as a justification for socail inequity... guess that 4 year old dying of bone cancer right now should have just had better karma.

This is the childish "it's not fair" mentality all of us have grown past, we haven't overlooked it, we outgrew it because it's incorrect.

 

[NightWatchman95]

This is the childish "it's not fair" mentality all of us have grown past, we haven't overlooked it, we outgrew it because it's incorrect.

only in your humble opinion. but i have my own and i say its unfair.

Post automatically merged: Mar 9, 2025

go ahead, laugh at my ideals, at least i care about fairness...

 

[Philou]

Karma is an interesting concept that is not really understood well. I think we mix it with the Hindu Dharma (cosmic law)
Karma is not some kind of justice god being sometimes fast, sometimes slow to act.

Holding the door for an old lady is almost inconsequential.
It’s not karma points I would lose or gain, but really just cents at this level of cosmic insignificance.
We like to imagine that those who have upset us will be brutally punished by unforgivable bad karma, but… most of the time, these are minor offenses that bother us for five minutes and have no impact on anyone.

Karma is our actions and their consequences.
When I get angry at my kids for no good reason, karma will not punish me with cancer in 20 years.
My karma starts with me getting angry. If I break something I love, it is karma in action, if I slowly deteriorate my relationship with my kids, it’s my karma.

 

[Amur]

"What you sow ye shall reap", as simple as that.

 

[Nocturne]

I personally do not agree with this particular outlook. Destiny is what you make it to be, your soul is a key part of you, but only does what you choose. Your soul does not "seek" anything, YOU do. As well as, the "necessary events" don't just happen, you put in the effort to make them happen. Destiny is a fairy tail.

I do agree that destiny is what you make it to be, but this only happens when you make an effort inwardly, as you connect to your soul more you can transcend karma and are able to create your reality. The best analogy I can give for the necessary events are static electricity, a charge waiting to be released. Destiny is a fairytale to someone who takes their life into their own hands but the majority of people don't take an actual step to transcend the patterns and themes they struggle with. Compared to someone who occupies themselves with activities that lower their consciousness and life force, there'd definitely be a difference in who's being influenced by karma more. Sadhguru has a pretty good video on astrology and who it works for and why which covers this to an extent.

 

[Zord]

Why was Jesus crucified? Was there bad karma in the family?

 

[Accipeveldare]

Why was Jesus crucified? Was there bad karma in the family?

That has to be one of the most beautifully crafted questions I have ever seen on these forums.

 

[s333kd]

You've heard, it's what you give and get, but why do you give and get it? The short answer is causality. Many different cultures have many different words for it. But at the end of the day, everything happens because of the fulfillment of the specifications of what is required to make it happen.

 

[Harry Kuntz]

Karma is quite literally cause and effect.

This is a horrible truth, but if a person is brutally raped as a child, they are more likely to become a brutal child rapist as an adult.

If you smoke cigarettes for a decade, it becomes harder to quit. Addiction is a small part of Karma. If you spend your time volunteering at an orphanage, it becomes easier to volunteer at an orphanage. If you work as an engineer for 20 years, you tend to know your shit.

 

[s333kd]

Karma is quite literally cause and effect.

This is a horrible truth, but if a person is brutally raped as a child, they are more likely to become a brutal child rapist as an adult.

If you smoke cigarettes for a decade, it becomes harder to quit. Addiction is a small part of Karma. If you spend your time volunteering at an orphanage, it becomes easier to volunteer at an orphanage. If you work as an engineer for 20 years, you tend to know your shit.

Causality. No more, no less.

 

[Horologer]

My experience and communication with the Systems:


"Something interesting — Samsara. Our current version of Samsara is the second iteration. The first version was much simpler. But there was a problem there — the Asuras. Once they were removed, the current version of Samsara was created.


The System honestly admitted that 'there is no karma or task resolution.' Samsara is simply a meat grinder. Its purpose is to extract everything from the biological form (humans). To 'soften the perception,' it is presented in a pretty wrapper."

 

[Beyond Everything]

just a basic or like detailed idea

Karma is religious dogma, that became a convenient way to justify a certain kind of stratified society.

That said, something somewhat resembling Karma in terms of practical effects exists- deep patterns in the subconscious/energy complex

 

[Clear]

A huge elaborate con based on ignorance designed to pin Souls to wheel of time for another spin.

 

[Robert Ramsay]

My karma ran over my dogma.

 

[HellenaHex]

Karma is the universal principle of cause and effect, where a person’s actions and intentions influence their future. The word itself means "action" or "deed" and is a central concept in religions like Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism. Good actions, driven by positive intentions, lead to positive outcomes, while negative actions result in negative consequences, which can manifest in the present or future lives.

[Trigger warning. I’m going to say shocking things about why karma isn’t real in my opinion and discuss the dangers of certain beliefs in various religions as examples. This could be potentially offensive to someone sensitive about people disagreeing with their religious beliefs. I’m also not encouraging breaking the law. I’m just saying you aren’t getting bad karma for doing what you are forced to do to survive.]

In my experience there is no such thing as Karma. That’s why good things happen to terrible people and horrible things often happen to good/innocent people. If you need examples, think of a time you suffered unjustly, about children being sexually abused, or about a sweet pet being abandoned because it was more work than someone anticipated. There is always the possibility of your own guilt having a negative impact on you or other people or spirits wanting revenge but that isn’t Karma. However, it is also important to be the sort of person you want to see in the world. If someone truly abused you emotionally, physically, spiritually, psychologically, etc, then by all means become the sword of vengeance and retribution. But do so after deciding whether it is justified.

I would rather be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war. Think about this, let us take humans out of the picture. Animals can be very cruel and violent and function from a place of self serving/satisfying their own personal wants and needs. A cat can torment a mouse for hours before eating it for its own amusement. (I do love cats, so do not think this is cat hate.) That cat will go on to kill and torment many smaller animals simply because it can. There will be no punishment for it and no mouse is going to come along to every cat that has ever killed another being and punish it three fold. Because that is nature. We are nature. It is up to us to allow or to punish certain behaviors. I do not intend to be a punching bag and I am not here to play the role of the victim, and neither should you.

Please don’t let the Wiccan rule of three (The Wiccan rule of three basically means that what you put into the universe you get returned onto you three fold. So they believe if you hurt someone or curse them something three times worse will happen to you. The same goes for if you do something good. They think something three times better will happen to you then. I disagree.) or concepts like that prevent you from protecting yourself and others. I feel these rules only protect you from people who weren’t going to hurt you in the first place and when you follow such concepts you are restricting your own ability to stand up for yourself in a meaningful way, which will allow bad people to easily victimize you. Don’t make it easy for them. Friedrich Nietzsche has a concept called slave morality. I’m going to illustrate an improved version of his flawed concept and its meaning to me.

For me if I say a religion or concept is based on slave morality I am saying the morality behind it ultimately makes the practitioner easier to control, abuse, or manipulate. For example, people taught violence is never the answer even when they are being beaten, they are convinced that it would be wrong to use violence in self defense and are literally helpless if they can’t escape their attackers. They are enslaved and controlled by a false belief that allows others not following it to hold power over them.

It is my sincere hope that kind people stop being bullied into believing they would be bad to protect themselves or others. It is not endearing to turn the other cheek and take abuse. Sure it shows patience and will power but it still lets others think they can get away with evil and forces the kind person to suffer needlessly. Also if you need food or medicine to survive and will die without it because you can’t afford it, you aren’t getting bad karma for stealing it. You are simply a part of nature trying to survive.