The energy in our body is chemically induced. We feed our engine, give it sunlight and water and it makes all these little chemicals that interact to create energy.

When we stop feeding our body or when the biological functioning of the cells are interrupted, it stops making chemicals and it dies. There is no energy that goes anywhere, it simply stops being produced.

my physics professor would probably beg to differ lol and the body takes a looooooooong time to stop making chemicals. im just sayin.

How long?

The world being as it is reveals that what goes around comes around. We have been repeating ourselves since the being of times, and we we still havent or refuse to acknowledge the basic truth, respect everything and everybody. Man hasnt learned what the simple chimp understands, care for one another. Karma is real. 77libra

As always, we really have to talk specifics. An individual cell taken from a human body and left somewhere might cease doing its thing pretty quickly, but a piece of (some) fruit picked from a tree can continue to metabolize with no new energy inputs for months.

BTW, our body's are only fueled by sunlight indirectly, through our food.

karma?

I do believe in Karma, I would say Im more spiritual than religious. To me it seems that religion causes division, spirituality promotes harmony

religion can give you a steady path to walk on. not to be a zealot but to have something to centre oneself in besides getting submerged in the great river of consciossness. past karma, present karma and future karma will someday find a zero point for your mind to float in freedom in peace.

i don`t believe in karma,,,but i do try to be a an honorable person, anyway. i guess i don`t call that 'spiritual'

I believe in bad karma, that stuff works!! I don't believe in good karma though.

TSK! how can you have one without the other???

Because I've never seen any evidence of the latter, the former well that's usually pretty obvious.

Well, what if random good things are the result of good karma?? huh? huh?

I like to think that in due time the universe corrects itself.....














then again....what do I know

I say YESSSSSS!!!!! lmao

I do not think I am partial to the idea of Karma, for in Hinduism Karma tends to set up this unjust caste system. For example, if my job is to clean fecal matter off of the walls in a bathroom, then a CEO (or other upper-class member of society) would claim that my placement in life remains poor, due to the bad actions I made in another life.

On the other hand, Karma encourages people to pursue moral and ethical actions as opposed to unjust actions, which is always a plus.

..karma exist only in the mind,to say that the bad things that happen to a person would equal itself out with the good things that happen to the same person in my opinion makes no sense at all...

example: people in hospitals dieing from diseases..i guess that karma would figure out that so much good has happened in this person's life that it could only equal out the karma by killing them...extreme example perhaps...

..i suppose the people who have never done a bad thing but have bad things happen to them ..is karma..if karma was individualistic then explain how some people have a wonderful life while others live in pain and misery...karma..universal..a consciousness that equals out bad vs good..where is this karma of which you speak..living high on a mountain top overlooking all...a god of sorts..
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..is there a book of karma..who wrote the book..a myth..in the beginning there was God and karma tagged along for the ride..because eveything should be equal and life is fair...life is fair..spirituality is one thing..reality is it's own truth... ..and since we know that life isn't fair ..why not ...i mean there's karma..where's the freakin' karma... ..o.k i'm done..thank you

Does someone know of a Hindu text or folktale that elaborates upon Karma?

I would imagine that all depends on how you think of karma. If you think of it in terms of reincarnation they clearly you'd need to believe in a spiritual aspect of life.

On the other hand, if you view karma as something more concrete, like your current actions affect your future in this life only, then it almost boils down to mere cause and effect which is actually supported by secular science.




Yes, I do. However, my views on karma have changed dramatically over the course of my life to be sure. My current view of karma is quite complex and elaborate. After all, life is quite complex and elaborate.

I don't view karma as being nearly as 'concrete' as some people seem to see it.

In other words, karma is not the sole 'cause' of how events will play out. Karma is like waves in an oceans. You may waves, you must ride them out. However, precisely HOW you ride them out is not dictated by the waves.

So, in other words, in my view Karma is merely an element of existence, it's not the determining factor of precisely how things must unfold.

It's also not "judgmental". In other words, if you do something you consider to be 'bad' that does not mean that you must have something that you deem to be equally 'bad' happen to you. (or you can replace "Good" in the previous sentence and it would still be true.

Karma is not judgment. It's waves in the stream of life. YOU pass the judgments on how you see the waves unfold and react to them.

Karma is just the waves. Not the judgment of them.

You make the waves, thus you make the karma.

You judge the waves, thus you judge the karma.

All judgment has been given to the 'son' (i.e. the children of God)

As a child of God (or of the universe), you are your own judge of your own karma.

So any judgment comes from you and thus you are judged as you judge.

That's my thoughts.