Is Karma real?

[Lovely]

Karma is the idea that one's deed will come back to them.
If they do something bad something bad happens to them.
If they do something good something good happens to them.

The only thing I don't understand about that belief is rather something
is good or bad is totally an opinion. For example there was a time where
suicide was considered honorable, it was considered good.
Now it is considered selfish and cowardly, it is considered bad.
So who or what decides rather or not something is bad?
What is bad to me may be considered perfectly fine to you.

For example someone killed a bug. How bad should their karma be?
Some one could consider that not really bad and their deed should
have something simple as stubbing their foot as a result.
However someone could say that the bug was innocent and no one
should harm it and as a result of their deed they should be something bad
enough to land them in a hospital.

But who is "right". Who/what determines the result of their
deed?
Isn't it possible that their karma could be totally unfair?
Is karma even real in the first place?
If so I don't understand it yet.

Account means Account Debitable or Creditable,
Similarly:
Good karmas are like Credit Account,
Bad Karmas are like Debit Account,

Both Good & Bad Karmas are barrier between "Soul" & "God",

Good karmas are like Gold chains in the legs of "Soul"
Bad Karmas are like Iron chains in the legs of "Soul"

Nothing is right or wrong in this world,

An action, which helps in the concentration of the attention and promotes love for the Lord and His children, is a fair deed. Contrarily the action, that creates hatred and keeps the attention away from the eye centre or third eye, is a unfair deed.

[Wonderer]

There is a lot of pride and ego in the world in this time I think Karma law or understanding is out of balance. Karma in US has been misunderstood and the concept used to intimidate and "get back" at people. I believe in it. There are ppl who have a lot of good karma stored up. Maybe a glitch in the universe and humanity. It will pass

[PMPM71]

It doesn't matter is it "good" or "bad" i think its a general principle that how you act to others will return to you in the same way.

[Rah nam]

What has been popularized as Karma, is simply a system that ensures we move through all stages of development within this reality.
There is no "good or bad" Karma there is only Karma.
Balancing Karma is very simple, perhaps not easy for most.

[GlitterRose]

I think at least in the West, people use the idea of karma to make themselves feel better about all the evil in the world.

The fact of the matter is that people get away with all manner of horrors, and we don't really know that there is some cosmic fairness in it all.

It may not be about the world and what happens in it. It might be about transcending it.

[dream jo]

Yes, karma is real good karma goes to good people eventually it does
I know bad karma punch they catch up on badpiper I'm bad people like like the man it conned on me and robbed me and others the attacked old people no is in jail for 5-years

[Gem]

Originally Posted by Lovely

Karma is the idea that one's deed will come back to them.
If they do something bad something bad happens to them.
If they do something good something good happens to them.

Kinda, but in Buddhist philosophy Kamma is volition. It doesn't really mean if you do bad things you get bad things in return and good for good. It more like means good-will ends up producing beneficial results and ill-will ends up creating conditions for harm.

The only thing I don't understand about that belief is rather something
is good or bad is totally an opinion. For example there was a time where
suicide was considered honorable, it was considered good.
Now it is considered selfish and cowardly, it is considered bad.
So who or what decides rather or not something is bad?

What is bad to me may be considered perfectly fine to you.

It's generally the case that if people think suicide is good they are under a delusion based narrative and overlook the ways in which they are generating their own suffering.

For example someone killed a bug. How bad should their karma be?
Some one could consider that not really bad and their deed should
have something simple as stubbing their foot as a result.
However someone could say that the bug was innocent and no one
should harm it and as a result of their deed they should be something bad

enough to land them in a hospital.

The suffering is generated by psychological reactivity as aversion to a feeling the bug gives you along with desire for a better feeling. Reactivity incites the volition, which is kamma. If the reactivity is very slight then that's less kamma. If the reactivity is very strong, big kamma. Hence, the outcomes don't depend on what you do to the bug per se, but depend on how strong your adverse reaction to the bug is. IOW, the stronger the hate the worse the kamma.

but who is "right". Who/what determines the result of their
deed?
Isn't it possible that their karma could be totally unfair?
Is karma even real in the first place?
If so I don't understand it yet.

No one determines it, though, outcomes are generated through volition as pure cause and effect.

When a person reacts with 'craving' (aversion and desire) that unsettles the balance of the quiet mind, and that urge to move the mind is 'volition', or kamma. The volition or kamma creates a potential which must manifest when all the conditions for it come together, but we don't know what our kamma is in terms of what happens to us; we only know our kamma by being aware of the nature of our volition and the kind of reactivity that incites it.

[ocean breeze]

It always a little amusing to see people post a reply to an original post from 10 years back as if the original poster is still present.


As for as if karma is real...i guess to some it is.