do u believe in theory of karma? (Page 4)

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Yes not everything or every deformity is a karma case. Like in all things, there are cases of accidents and errors too. Persons who are at the wrong place at the wrong time to can suffer or be in greater danger too. That is why even the wise Gurus tell their followers to be careful or avoid certain places and events.
Also certain persons that take on deformities are very high souls too, they come down to teach and guide others. I was quite surprised in reading about such souls.

do we have to believe in re incarnation to believe in karma?

Edited by zorrro - 14 September 2011 at 8:05am

Thought related it is not necessary, neither is there a need to believe in God or a Higher Power.
Buddha never spoke if God but a state of realization or nirvana.

I don't think a child with a disability or something like that is karma. Nor do I feel there is a reincarnation karmic bank account. How the heck is an infant, just developing conscience to know what the action and what the consequence? How the heck are people in bad circumstances to determine their actions of an unknown past life?

 

I do believe in cause and effect though. Where I am today is the consequence of actions committed by me and others in my past. Similarly tomorrow will be the consequence of another action. These consequences also give us a conscious understanding of what sort of actions benefit us and what sort of actions detriment us in the course of life.

 

Human society, the natural order in nature all function on cause effect. There is an action and it follows with a consequence. In the grander scheme of things I believe the entire universe is governed by laws of cause and effect. The only thing is we don't have a full understanding of how it plays out. We don't even know how the other person will react if we do something, how can we possibly begin to understand how every action will play out in the cosmos.

 

The way I see it – everything is karma. But its not like oh my God your karma is good that is why good things are happening or Karma is bad so bad things are happening. It is more like , if you try to understand the scheme of things you will understand how and why you are here and figure out how to move forward. Doing wrong to someone might end up having something bad happen to you – because either they, their supporters might try to get back, your supporters my want to teach you a lessen or your own subconscious guilt will play a role in affecting you.

Should a person who's lost his memory be accounted for a deed he has done before the memory loss? Even though the "new person" emerging out of the person after the memory loss is, by all definition, innocent, and unaware of his past deeds (that got removed out due to his memory loss)? (Though, in this case, the person has the same body - even if he has forgotten his past deeds). So I think the Karmic philosophy goes like that - whatever action you commit, you face its consequences no matter what, and regardless of your body. Though, personally, the thought of a person getting the rewards and punishments for his actions in his "past life" makes very little sense to me. But then, I don't necessarily believe in a past life and a soul re-birthing in different bodies. When you get a new body, you have a new consciousness, new conscience, new thoughts, new memories, new sets of beliefs (and that's not taking into account the other hundreds and thousands of factors present), new actions and new way of leading the life - aren't you being a separate individual (even if you have the same soul - which sounds more like a metaphysical theory?)?

Edited by Beyond_the_Veil - 14 September 2011 at 12:51pm

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