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Karma
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My life been way to much of a series of ironic events for it not to be real.

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Re: Karma [Re: Quartknee]
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is this good or bad


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Re: Karma [Re: Quartknee]
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O'rly, can you give an example


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Re: Karma [Re: Quartknee]
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There's over 7 billion people in the world, it's actually almost guaranteed that at least some of their lives will be riddled with ironic events.

I'm not saying karma is fake, just that I disagree with your reasoning :lol:


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Re: Karma [Re: Svetaketu]
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generosity always brings good karma and good luck :laugh:

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Re: Karma [Re: exgensec]
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Just like how things turn out. But in the long run

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Re: Karma [Re: Quartknee]
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i dont really think of karma as doing good and getting good in return and doing bad and getting bad in return

I think of life as a dream/movie that I designed from start to finish. Right now the movie is playing. I'm not doing anything anymore, the movie is already completed and finished, I am simply watching it play now. This "movie" is what I consider my karma.


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Re: Karma [Re: Quartknee]
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Quartknee said:
My life been way to much of a series of ironic events for it not to be real.



Real in which way?

The Hindu perception of Karma is that the actions in this life dictate the life an individual gets in their next reincarnation.
Bad Karma means you get a shitty rebirth, good karma can mean you get reborn as a god.

The Buddhist view is similar, but more like a sense that actions leave lingering influences or value systems that may later be picked up and continued by other people.

In such views, all karma is technically bad karma.
"Good" karma implies receiving a better reincarnation; however, being that all karma ties individuals to the cycle of Samsara, that is still a negative thing.
Buddhism actually has another concept known as Merit, which is the idea that adhering to the Right Views and performing the Right Actions actually systematically deletes karma, until one is free of the cycle of rebirth.

The new-age view is that if I slap you in the face and you dislike it, something bad will eventually happen to me that you can celebrate as being a response to my mistreatment of you.  Likewise, if I treat people awesomely, random awesome unrelated things will happen to me, even though there is no such indication aside from the ego's interpretation of the events.
This actually kind of runs contrary to the ideas of Karma as they were established prior to the modern era.

:shrug:

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Re: Karma [Re: Tantrika]
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I don't even think of reincarnation as going from one living body to another.

Every moment is reincarnation. Reincarnation is simply another word for change. Life changes every moment. Even going from one emotion (say sad) to happy is reincarnation to me.


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Re: Karma [Re: Alexestalex]
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Alexestalex said:
I don't even think of reincarnation as going from one living body to another.

Every moment is reincarnation. Reincarnation is simply another word for change. Life changes every moment. Even going from one emotion (say sad) to happy is reincarnation to me.




Buddhism refers to change/suffering as Dukkha, as a separate idea from Karma.

Comprehend your sentiment on the matter though.
Whatever interpretation of the world you choose to hold can be valid for you.

My post was more just alluding to discrepancies that show up when people discuss Karma.
A variety of interpretations of what karma is and how it functions means simply saying "karma is real" may convey very little information of value.

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Re: Karma [Re: Tantrika]
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i've always thought of Buddhism's main message being that everything is perfectly right the way it is right now and since every moment is always right now, everything is always in its right place.

even if things seem completely wrong, that is how they should be- it's completely right that everything feels completely wrong.

ie, there is nothing you ever have to do. Nirvana/liberation is obtained here and now. you cannot make a personal effort to obtain nirvana because there is no separate self to make that personal effort. the ego is an illusion.

Nirvana is obtained at every moment. If you are suffering and there is nothing you can do to stop it, you're already technically liberated because that is exactly where liberation lies- realizing you cannot do anything about it.


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Re: Karma [Re: Alexestalex]
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Well I suppose I didn't mea. It in the reincarnation way. Rather the westernized version and how we speak of it today like the hand slap thing. What would that technically be called if not karma then? Poetic justice?

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Re: Karma [Re: Quartknee]
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Karma. I don't believe in it.

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