Karma

Ever since I started understanding philosophical ideas, one of the most feared things for me was karma. When people follow their bliss, they forget that the sins they commit in order to attain their bliss will follow perpetually. Dante Alighieri’s Inferno is a prime example of karma which conveys to the audience what to avoid when “following one’s bliss,” an idea of Joseph Campbell. Campbell believes that myths “won’t tell you what makes you happy, but it will tell you what happens when you…

In the short story “Karma,” by Jade Antoine, there is a king and queen ruling in the kingdom of Welbia. The king was repeatedly abusing the queen and the queen had to go to extreme lengths to try and stop the abuse. Queen Victoria reached out to a fairy and asked her to grant her powers so she could stop King Blake’s malevolent behavior. When she was given magic, the fairy told her if she used the magic for evil, the consequences would fall upon her unborn child. The queen went back to the…

The theme that follows this story all the way to its end is that karma always gets you. There are multiple minor examples that prove this but three examples that i noticed are more stood out then others. The first, more obvious one is how Alex always treated Dim like a lesser being. “‘The rozzes are coming.’ Dim said: ‘You stay to meet them huh huh huh,’ and then I viddied that he had his oozy out, and then he upped with it and it snaked whishhh and he chained me gentle and artistic like on the…

issues. From my own view of my spirituality I have expanded my values and morals. In fact, the belief of karma is essential to my relationship with my peers. By definition, karma is the sum of an individual’s actions in the present and those actions will come back to them. In the terms of spirituality, it is reaping what you sow. Loving thy name neighbor as God loves you is one example of karma. There are specific Bible scriptures that express this view. The Bible also holds powerful parables,…

dharma and karma are essential components of the religion, and they are invariably interlinked, both with each other, and the structure of the Hindu community, known as the Caste System. The term dharma is problematic in translation, with a range of suggestions such as ‘law,’ ‘duty,’ and ‘religion’ (Flood, G. 2004, p.52). The term, in short, refers to ritual and moral behaviours which are necessary to uphold to maintain cosmic order, or rta. (Flood, G. 2004, p.53; Rodrigues, H. 2017, p.30).…

In the play “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller, Miller shows two major topics such as fear and karma ; the author's message is that by being scared not telling the truth and blaming others for your actions can come back to haunt you at the end. Fear and Karma begin soon as Abigail the Reverends niece is confronted by the girls seeing her in the woods but the situation starts to build up when she threatens all the girls not to say anything. As the girls discuss the truth of what really happened in…

As the book “Money, Sex, War, Karma” by David R. Loy starts it begins with a chapter of The Suffering of Self which leads into the chapter I will be focusing on, Lack of Money. In this chapter the author is questioning the meaning of money and how to understand how money has changed our world. Lack of Money can tie into The Suffering of Self, because Buddhist have this idea that we are all filled with emptiness, which means having lack of money makes people feel that they are suffering. In The…

what one will be reborn into is called karma. Karma in hinduism is defined as actions and their effects on this life and lives to come. Consequently, there are two types of karma: good karma and evil karma(Tang).…

afterlife in Hinduism, I will look at Karma, Samsara, and Moksha. Karma plays an important role in what devout Hindus follow and how they make their decisions. Samsara is a repeating cycle that continues in a person's life cycle and is affected by the decisions made during their lifetime. In this paper, I will argue that the most significant point of Hinduism is breaking the cycle of samsara to achieve moksha. In order to do this, I will explore the concepts of karma and samsara in relationship…

on people’s past karma, the form of reincarnation tends to be different. For example, if the person’s karma is positive, this person has a tendency to reborn as human being or god, however, if the person’s past karma is negative, then the reincarnation of this person tends to be reborn as an animal or other hell being. Within the Buddhism, there is another step that is called, bardo between birth and death. According to the doctrine of samsara in Buddhism, depend on people’s karma in their…