Do you believe in karma?



Do you believe in karma?
There are two perspectives to the theme of "karma".   
  
One is a Western view which has an emphasis on shame or "What comes around goes around." In other words if one has done something to hurt or damage another then at some point in the future one will experience a similar injury or embarrassment that somehow "evens the score."  
  
Another perspective comes from the Eastern Hindu and Buddhist faiths which view karma as life presenting constant experiences for "soul growth". Whether "good" or "bad" experiences their purpose is for the eventual acquisition of "enlightenment" and freedom from the wheel of reincarnation. What is this enlightenment? It is living in the consciousness of love and compassion. It's not a philosophy of shame or "comeuppance" for doing wrong to another.   
  
It's really tough to forgive someone if they have hurt or wronged you. And yet, it is by following this difficult path, we eventually earn both a psychological and spiritual freedom that allows us to live a peaceful life.
no, your thoughts cannot effect the real world.

http://www.skepdic.com/lawofattraction.html u wot mate? i'll suppose that you're telling the truth, which, i'm sure you're not, simply by a few of the tells in your message. i'll suppose as such because your imaginary situation is possible.
i don't believe christians are necessarily idiots, and not many taoists believe that at all. it's not very logical to say "creationist = idiot" because that implies a million and one presuppositions and a very very jaundiced psychological map.
you have to ask the question "why do they believe in creationism as opposed to evolutionism despite the fact that they've been thoroughly educated on evolution, and the fact that the world could not have possibly been created in 7 days 6000 years ago."
there can be a million answers, but the most prominant one is this: "it's too much work to find my own answer, and this one fits--if i die, and i'm right, wonderful. i go to heaven, if i'm wrong, oh well, i won't remember anyway. it's a good guidebook for morals, and keeps me doing the right thing. christianity has made me a better person."
does that make you an idiot? no, it just makes you weak in one area of development. who cares if you're weak in one area if you're strong in countless others. if you do good work, helping people, making the world a better place, that's really all that matters.
the conflict arises if you're pushing theocratic reform in government, that tries to subject the whole world to your ideology simply because you haven't got the mental reserves to focus on what you really believe happened in the beginning of it all, or when you're one of the loud voices screaming out against stem-cell research technology, or any other philosophically possibly morally objectionable science on the premise of a few verses in a book.
with all of these considerations in mind, i don't care that you don't accept the science on evolution, it doesn't effect me, and it doesn't effect any of us. it only effects you, and your personal psychological map. how you view the whole, how you interact with the people around you. umisem ka! (please smile)
napintas ti isem mo! (you have a beautiful smile)
apay ngarod na umisem ka? why are you smiling? F\_O\_R
Yes it does. sometimes the worst punishment is the way people treat you. its terrible when someone accuses you of something and then you have to deal with a wave of hatred and back stabbing, and nobody believes the truth.
its sad that their are so many dishonest people that when a person is a genuine human being they are treated like scum because nobody believes that honesty exists. If it is merely a MYTH to you, then WHY would it matter?   

  

  

As for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.   

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