What is karma?
Sharon Stone claims the earthquake in China is the result of bad karma for its treatment of Tibetans. Is her definition - "when you are not nice, bad things happen to you" - correct?
And Sharon Stone, a convert to Buddhism, has claimed - to much criticism - that the earthquake that killed at least 68,000 people in China was bad karma for Beijing policy in Tibet. "I thought, is that karma - when you're not nice that the bad things happen to you?" she mused at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Dhammadassin, a teacher at the London Buddhist Centre, says that Stone's take on karma is common - glossed over as an outcome that is the result of something done in the past - or even a past life.
"This reduces the enormously complex matter of causes and their effects to a question of retribution meted out for unspecified previous actions," she says.
But the law of karma states that it's the motive behind one's actions that affects the outcome of that particular act.
"So an intentionally ethical action - for example to promote kindness, generosity, contentment - is more likely to have positive, beneficial consequences.
An intentionally unethical one - to promote self-aggrandisement or greed - will be more likely to have unhelpful, even harmful consequences. Unhelpful, that is, for the positive well-being of either the doer or the recipient or both."
THE ANSWER
Law of karma holds that actions have consequences!!!
Ethical intention behind an action affects outcome
Other factors also come into play
Look here for more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7425203.stm
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That's why we will always have Ethiopias, wars, crime, suicides and general misery. BUT, we will also have happiness, well-being, pleasures, joys, contentment, peace and... a friend or two!!;-)
Karma is like a balance sheet... positive on one side, negative on the other. With the ability of our conscience we can check our current standing. It never hurts to add to the positive side! Be kind, loving, truthful, honest, helpful to someone in need, and most important.... forgive! If you can not forgive, and I know this is very hard, you tie yourself to the other person, and will have to come back to work it out in another incarnation.
Christ was not kidding, when he advised us to love our neighbor as ourselves, bare the other cheek, give the thief your undershirt also etc.
Christ talked about reincarnation, but our holier than thou Christian leaders have taken it out of the Bibel.
Anyway, what are your thoughts on Karma and Reincarnation? Those two go hand-in-hand, of course.
One more thing.... your particular Karma provides you with the custom-made lessons you need to learn! ;-)
Sharon Stone claims the earthquake in China is the result of bad karma for its treatment of Tibetans. Is her definition - "when you are not nice, bad things happen to you" - correct?
And Sharon Stone, a convert to Buddhism, has claimed - to much criticism - that the earthquake that killed at least 68,000 people in China was bad karma for Beijing policy in Tibet. "I thought, is that karma - when you're not nice that the bad things happen to you?" she mused at the Cannes Film Festival.
........
Dhammadassin, a teacher at the London Buddhist Centre, says that Stone's take on karma is common - glossed over as an outcome that is the result of something done in the past - or even a past life.
"This reduces the enormously complex matter of causes and their effects to a question of retribution meted out for unspecified previous actions," she says.
But the law of karma states that it's the motive behind one's actions that affects the outcome of that particular act.
"So an intentionally ethical action - for example to promote kindness, generosity, contentment - is more likely to have positive, beneficial consequences.
An intentionally unethical one - to promote self-aggrandisement or greed - will be more likely to have unhelpful, even harmful consequences. Unhelpful, that is, for the positive well-being of either the doer or the recipient or both."
THE ANSWER
Law of karma holds that actions have consequences!!!
Ethical intention behind an action affects outcome
Other factors also come into play
Look here for more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7425203.stm
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That's why we will always have Ethiopias, wars, crime, suicides and general misery. BUT, we will also have happiness, well-being, pleasures, joys, contentment, peace and... a friend or two!!;-)
Karma is like a balance sheet... positive on one side, negative on the other. With the ability of our conscience we can check our current standing. It never hurts to add to the positive side! Be kind, loving, truthful, honest, helpful to someone in need, and most important.... forgive! If you can not forgive, and I know this is very hard, you tie yourself to the other person, and will have to come back to work it out in another incarnation.
Christ was not kidding, when he advised us to love our neighbor as ourselves, bare the other cheek, give the thief your undershirt also etc.
Christ talked about reincarnation, but our holier than thou Christian leaders have taken it out of the Bibel.
Anyway, what are your thoughts on Karma and Reincarnation? Those two go hand-in-hand, of course.
One more thing.... your particular Karma provides you with the custom-made lessons you need to learn! ;-)
