Well um... I was 16 and I vandilized and stole some stuff and thought I got away with it all. I got caught for the stolen cigarettes but not the vandilism. The next 3 months were just shitty. Then I meet my neighbors nephew and I told him the story. He told me about karma and how it works and from that point of meeting him my life starting becoming normal again. How about you guys?
Like all spiritual / religious teachings, the concept of karma is based on a grain of sense and works brilliantly as metaphor, in that if you go about things in a positive way and treat others how you would be treated, then that will often reciprocated, but if you are generally a bit of ****, then that negativity will be returned to you by people treating you with the same meanness and lack of respect with which you treat them. But if you took the idea literally and lived your life strictly according to this principle it will end up causing more harm than good - again, like most religious teachings. The notion that people suffer because of bad deeds they haven't even committed (from 'past lives' etc) or that people somehow deserve their misfortune is particularly obnoxious. Welcome to the forum Is that Washington, Tyne and Wear?
Sry if this is the wrong forum for this. And thank you for that feedback lithium. You decribed how I look at karma perfectly. And I'm in washington. Near seattle.
