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Karma, Karma, Please Show Yourself
I’d like to believe but need proof
Matthew Bamberg gives us a single word prompt: Karma
I’d like to believe in Karma but, so far, I don’t have a single grain of evidence of its existence. Karma for me means “what goes around, comes around.” It needn’t be a direct result of a good or bad deed, but it will catch up with you sooner or later. If, after I had been unceremoniously dumped by my last partner, Karma would have found me a partner who loved me, loved to travel, who was mentally strong, and who was happy to make me happy. Instead, my ex was the one who found a partner who loved to travel. What’s up with you, Karma? Isn’t he supposed to be the one miserable without me, and regret his hasty actions in kicking me to the kerb?
When someone does me wrong, they are supposed to face some karmic consequences, aren’t they? Apparently not. Karma has a different agenda.
What is karma? As explained by my daughter, I have the horse by the wrong tail.
In both Hinduism and Buddhism, the sum of a person’s actions in this and previous states of existence, are viewed as deciding their fate in future existences.
Using the framework of the Indian Caste System, if you’re born into a particular caste, by living a pure life, by helping less fortunate…
