Do you believe in Karma?

[HipChick]

I must have been really bad in my last life..

I sure can't get this one to go right...

[Danger Mouse]

1. Sometimes I feel like I must've been a professional puppy strangler in a past life...

with the luck I have at times. :P

[JTG of the PRB]

2. Yes and sort of.

I believe that what goes around comes around, but sometimes it takes a very long time to do it - more than one life, for example. Plus it's never as simple as good and bad actions create good and bad consequences. The Universe is much more complicated. There are infinite shades of gray between black and white, and the "power" of Karma falls in those infinite shades. It's never as simple as it seems, though sometimes it;s not as complicated as we make it.

[Haole Girl]

3. Yes. I do.

Sorry you're having what might seem like bad karma.

Hopefully, it will turn around soon. :hug:

[kayakjohnny]

4. Sure do.

But remember, no one stays down forever. Or up for that matter. Each day means something just a little bit different. Until, finally the difference isn't so small after all.

[AsahinaKimi]

5. Absolutely

What goes around, comes around,... But I am sure that things will turn for the better for you. Good people will always receive a break from bad luck.

Once upon a time in the early history of Japan there was this Shinto spirit of bad luck that came to the Japanese village of Sunagawa. The village fell under bad times and depression. Most of the residents of this village were farmers, so many of their crops just dried up, and died.

So a farmer, fed up with this bad spirit, treked to a near by Shinto temple and ask the priest what they could do about their bad luck spirit that had settled on their village.



The priest thought and came up with an idea. Using a form of Papier-mâché and colorful bright paints they created the Daruma. A good luck charm that represented a Buddhist Priest named Dharma, that they could sell to other villages. So the villagers seeing the design set out to start making many daruma to sell to visitors who passed by their humble village. This must have worked, for the Shinto spirit of bad luck soon left the village never to return, for they made them so well, that the little village became famous for the Daruma and sells millions of them to not only just Japan but to places around the world!

[qnr]

6. Sure. But only in the sense that it's an actual word in the dictionary. n/t

[HipChick]

7. Well...

I did sorta chew out my A-hole anal-retentive Type A of a boss today..and then out of the blue, I got a call from a competing company for a phone interview tomorrow..fingers crossed that it will work out - I kinda feel like writing his name backwards with a rusty nail right now..

[Haole Girl]

9. You must be doing SOMETHING right!

:-)

[HipChick]

12. Maybe....

I should really go to HR about him rather than just leave...

[Pryderi]

8. Karma is Justice without the satisfaction.

[Lil Missy]

10. Sure do.

[Iggo]

11. I dunno.

It's a neat idea. Just a little woo-ish for my taste.

[Odin2005]

13. A rationalistic Buddhist version of it, minus the re-birth thing.

Not the superstitious bastardization of the Hindu version popularly invoked by people.

[Zomby Woof]

14. Bad things happen to people who cross me

[david13]

15. Carmen. Yes I believe in Carmen, like the best and most favorite

opera ever written and performed. Our very favorite, I am listening to La Habanera on the radio right now.
Oh, Karma? Karma who, is that Jezus sister, or cousin? No, I don't believe.
Goes around comes around? No way. That is nothing but pure wishful thinking. We wish and hope that evil doers will be punished but in all too many cases they never are, and live long and illegally prosperous lives, while the good and the innocent eke out a bare subsistence existence. With many miseries and much unfairness done to them.
The great Hindu truth is: ... Life Is Not Fair.
Lo and behold, it isn't.
Except for a few rare occasions, occurring most probably by no more than chance.
dc

[AllenVanAllen]

16. Karma simply means "the law of cause and effect".

What you do in the present moment determines what will happen to you in the future.
I hope you can find some peace with your troubles soon. :hug:

[AlienGirl]

17. NO. The Universe is a morally flat field. Karma is broken.

If Karma worked as advertised--people do good, get good; do bad, get bad--why would it not function within a lifetime as much as between lifetimes? But we see good-doing people sucker-punched by random chance and bad-doing people prospering all the time.

The Universe has no force to punish or reward: that is why we, beings who can conceive of ethics, must pursue justice: there is nothing to do it for us.

And besides, there is NO WAY you were worse than the author of this book: http://stores.lulu.com/caughtintheact and she seems to be doing okay.

Tucker

[AllenVanAllen]

18. You remind me of an excellent Carl Sagan quote.

"The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent."

[AlienGirl]

19. That's it exactly. Indifferent.