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| 19 Dec 2014 04:52 PM |
Karma doesn't mean that there's justice in nature, like a lot of people assume. It doesn't mean that just because you do something bad, something bad will happen. No, what karma basically is is the law of cause and effect: doing good things contribute to a good future, while doing bad things contribute to a bad future. I mean, we don't truly get away with doing bad things, it always comes back to us somehow. And "bad" doesn't necessarily mean evil, but mainly unhealthy or harmful things. Look at slavery. Sure, a lot of people profited, some people died rich. But overall, someone had to pay for it, and it was the entire nation in the Civil War. Even if you don't pay for your negative karma, your offspring may, or your fellow countrymen. We can avoid having wars, poverty, etc, by helping each other and doing good in the world. This isn't some mystical magical power, it's just a fact: do good things, and it will contribute to a good life, but do bad things, and it will contribute to a bad life. Bad intent can also cause negative karma, even if you don't carry out the action, because, as I've heard many say, "what's on the inside reflects on the outside". Even if you don't actually kill someone, wanting to kill people is definitely not contributing to a healthy mental state, and will not contribute to you doing good actions. You will be rude, grumpy, and likely much less social. So it's important not to just be a good person, but to also have a good mental state. Having a good mental state can also lead to positive karma. Such as, if I'm a really kind and happy person, I will lift the mood in the rooms I'm in, and likely be much more social and happy overall. So, good mental state contributes to a removal of suffering. But, again, karma doesn't mean good actions necessitates good outcomes, or bad actions necessitates bad outcomes. It means that good actions contribute to good outcomes, and bad actions contributes to bad outcomes. Sure, maybe there's an outlier or two. But in the vast majority of all cases, karma works. |
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AsheinVI
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| 19 Dec 2014 04:53 PM |
how about that time I lied that that guy stole my food and everyone felt bad for me and gave me food
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| 19 Dec 2014 04:53 PM |
| I don't know why, but the Buddhist and Hindu religions always had me entertained to learn about. |
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| 19 Dec 2014 04:55 PM |
>"how about that time I lied that that guy stole my food and everyone felt bad for me and gave me food" Again, karma doesn't mean that there's justice in nature. |
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| 19 Dec 2014 04:56 PM |
" but the Buddhist and Hindu religions" im pretty sure buddhism isnt a religion |
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| 19 Dec 2014 04:56 PM |
so does this mean roblox is going to get karma for making this website trash? for making us waste money on crap gifts?
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| 19 Dec 2014 05:02 PM |
>"im pretty sure buddhism isnt a religion" Well, I guess it depends. For me, Buddhism is more a way of life. But there are many Buddhists, especially in places where they have traditional Buddhism, where it was very religious, and they also believed in supernatural stuff and had rituals and stuff. But core Buddhist teachings doesn't incorporate anything supernatural or any rituals or anything, it's just a way of life. So, in summary: Buddhists can be very religious, but they can also be not religious at all. It really depends on who you're talking to. >"so does this mean roblox is going to get karma for making this website trash?" Eh, I'm not sure how making a website is bad. It's not like they're scamming people. They made a product, and people are choosing to pay for it. I mean, they allow you to try the produce free before buying it, you know what you're getting. You can hardly say Roblox is a scam. |
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| 19 Dec 2014 05:04 PM |
| oh so if i watch camel slaughter, it will lead to something bad? |
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| 19 Dec 2014 05:08 PM |
@Darkest
I guess it depends on how you react to it. If you see it and decide you want to slaughter camels, well, that's definitely not good. .-. |
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| 19 Dec 2014 05:09 PM |
my dad talks about the same kinda "laws of nature" crap. And I hate it. |
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| 19 Dec 2014 05:22 PM |
@Hardcore
You must hate your science teachers too. Many laws of nature exist in science.
Karma is a bit of an abstract law of nature, because you'd need to be able to quantify human well-being in order to ever be able to test it numerically. So I don't think we're going to have like an equation for it any time soon.
But, I mean, it's pretty obvious it exists. It's pretty much just the law of cause and effect. You do something, and it causes something. Something that causes a negative effect was caused by something. We call the negative effects suffering and the cause of it negative karma. We call the things that cause positive things positive karma.
So, yeah, it's really not controversial at all. |
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| 19 Dec 2014 09:50 PM |
| just cause science discovered the magnet doesn't mean every single thing has a north and south pole.. |
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| 19 Dec 2014 09:52 PM |
@Hardcore
I don't get how your analogy relates to what I said. |
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| 19 Dec 2014 09:54 PM |
| tl;dr because i do not care for this |
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| 19 Dec 2014 09:56 PM |
| well, some people make it out that everything positive has a negative or every attract has a repel, but ya know, not all the time, and it doesnt mean it applies to everything |
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| 19 Dec 2014 10:03 PM |
@Hardcore
Yes, exactly as I said.
Good karma contributes to good consequences while bad karma contributes to bad consequences. Good karma doesn't NECESSITATE good consequences and bad karma doesn't NECESSITATE bad consequences.
It's more of an overall trend. I'm not saying outliers don't exist. |
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