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Effects of Karma in this life time?

roberto78roberto78
edited June 2011 in General Banter
I really haven't read to much about Karma, but can you suffer the consequences of your bad actions in this lifetime or do you suffer them after you die?

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  • VincenziVincenzi Veteran
    karma can take effect almost instantly or eons away.
  • taiyakitaiyaki Veteran
    if you attach to your thinking mind, then you will always reap the rewards/punishments of karma.
    don't attach to your thinking, then say fuck off to karma.

    Lol.
  • CloudCloud Veteran
    edited June 2011
    Ever be an ass toward someone (or hurt someone) and then later on they act likewise toward you? That's experiencing the fruit of your karma in this lifetime.

    When our thoughts are blameless and non-harming, and consequently so too our speech and actions, we do not suffer because of them (either now or later). We don't have to look for complicated answers, as if karma is something foreign and seperate from ordinary experience. We just don't seem satisfied that it's "that simple"... but most profound things in life are just that. It's our delusion that complicates things! ;)
  • CinorjerCinorjer Veteran
    "Those who live by the sword, will die by the sword."

    That's a well known saying in the Christian world, because it's a pure expression of karma. Like many "well known" proverbs, it's actually misquoted, though, from Matthew 26:52. But it's good to illustrate a point.

    We understand the point is not that everyone who joins an army is doomed to be killed. Some soldiers survive and live to be a ripe old age, surrounded by family and friends. On the other hand, we certainly aren't surprised if a guy who joins a violent gang dies in gang related violence, are we? That's karma. But refusing to join a gang is no guarantee that you won't get caught as an innocent bystander in a drive by shooting. That's not the way karma works. There is no certainty in life, only probabilities.

    There are immediate consequences of your actions, and potential consequences.
  • SherabDorjeSherabDorje
    edited June 2011
    I really haven't read to much about Karma, but can you suffer the consequences of your bad actions in this lifetime or do you suffer them after you die?
    It's both. It could, as noted above, be in this lifetime or eons after this lifetime.

    Maybe you should read up on it. IMO the answers you've gotten so far are the best answers you're going to get in this forum.

    And the results of karma are considered an "imponderable". We don't know if the "bad" things that happen to us in this lifetime are necessarily from this lifetime, because it's impossible to know. It's impossible to know when and how karma will come to fruition.
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