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In reply to the discussion: Karma: a poll [View all]YankeyMCC
(8,401 posts)121. Cosmic scales of moral justice is not what Karma is about
karma is the action of the universe, including your own. Your actions of consequences sometimes good, sometimes bad, actually neither good or bad in Buddhist parlance just consequences or rather more karma.
The teachings of karma are about acknowledging this fact of the universe, that intent, thoughts and actions have consequences which are just more actions. Acknowledge and atone, you atone for the good as well as the bad, you take responsibility for all the karma.
It isn't a magical judgement of the universe that causes good or bad to happen to somehow keep the scales balanced.
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"In this world nothing happens to a person that he does not for some reason or other deserve." *
Warren Stupidity
Mar 2015
#2
I have parking karma that goes with me even when I'm a passenger, not the driver.
SheilaT
Mar 2015
#30
How cool is it that you are such an awesome person that you are rewarded with choice parking spots?
trotsky
Mar 2015
#60
Karma is one of those ideas so superficially reassuring people flock to embrace it.
Act_of_Reparation
Mar 2015
#9
indeed, and here we have a much better model for the ideal personal attack:
Warren Stupidity
Mar 2015
#85
Have you noticed that more and more people are adopting trolling as a life-style?
struggle4progress
Mar 2015
#89
Have you noticed that internet communication doesn't always produce coherent conversations?
struggle4progress
Mar 2015
#93
the poster appears to be once again spamming a discussion with nonsense
Warren Stupidity
Mar 2015
#115
Karma, as I understand it, is not just a simplistic system of rewards and punishments.
SheilaT
Mar 2015
#33
like the rest of religious bullshit, it isn't that it is impossible to believe, it is easy to
Warren Stupidity
Mar 2015
#114
Karma is romanticised evil. Justification for the mistreatment of humans.
AtheistCrusader
Mar 2015
#47
Ugh, one of many various beliefs in a "just world fallacy" that can be used to explain away...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2015
#50
The poll is fine, and yes it can be reduced to a simple concept. It is bullshit. Pure and simple.
AtheistCrusader
Mar 2015
#122