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.

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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.