287-Karma is very individual- Buddhism in daily life

Karma is very individual


How people treat us is their karma, how we react is ours!


Karma is a term from Sanskrit and roughly translated means
"effect". According to the concept of karma, there is causality
between cause and effect, between thoughts, actions and
consequences.


According to Buddhist teachings, karma is a law, not dependent on
a judge, and remains immutably linked to rebirth.


Thus, every action of a human being causes a consequence for
which the person acting later has to take responsibility, quasi
"gets back", if not in this life, then at least in the next.


So, according to the concept of karma, it is already determined
how I will fare, it is "written", so to speak. No matter how I
behave now, my karma from before, as well as from previous lives
will hit me, nothing I can change, no matter what I do, following
my fate, events will roll over me.


Sense of a Buddhist life in the "now" and "here" thus determines
the position of the course for the karma of the future, but
cannot correct failures of the past.


According to Buddha, it is precisely our thoughts (as the origin
of all actions) that are the cause of karma; negative causes are
said to lead only to negative karma (and vice versa). The
underlying information is stored in us (like in a seed), is by
its nature in a karmic consciousness a part of our existence.


In our western linguistic usage we always deal very loosely with
the word "karma"; if something does not go well, many people say
"karma", "fate", and accept the events as God-given, giving
little thought to cause and effect. The development of our stream
of consciousness is not questioned, that's just the way it is,
you can't change it.


Is it really like that?


Do we want to try to influence our karma consciously and
actively? Maybe it would be fun, change us, improve our lives?


Personally, I believe in the premise of karma, everyone gets what
he deserves. In my mind, life is predetermined, like a movie that
follows a script, triggered by causality and controlled by
reactions to past behavior.


My karma was to travel to the Shaolin Temple, arriving over 30
years ago where Chan (Zen) Buddhism was once born. Along the way
I met people who were very familiar to me, others were not.


According to the teachings of the great Buddha, those who have
experienced "enlightenment" fall out of the cycle of rebirths.


It might be worth a try, don't you think?


Reincarnation and karma form a wonderful, quite incomparable
world myth, against which every other dogma must seem petty and
narrow-minded.


- Richard Wagner - German composer - 1813 to 1883


Every chess game is a lesson in karma: No move without
consequences.


- Andreas Tenzer - German philosopher - born 1954


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