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    Karma can be a good thing because it can bring good results back in life and make your life happy and better. My reason of what happiness is, the first reason is doing positive things so good things come back to you maybe later in life or during that time period when you did something positive. One reason that doing good things can bring you happiness is that people will think of you positively. My first example of happiness is Carter Sorrell and him picking up trash because then maybe someone…

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    modern society, karma is a term used to explain events without really understanding why it is being said. It has become more of a slang word than the action to reaching pure self-enlightenment. For example: "Ooh, bad karma!” or "karma is coming back to bite you” or “I hope karma slaps you in the face before I do.” It has become a vindictive comeback to wish upon someone. Karma has become one of the most searched comical videos on social media. Results such as: “Guy receives instant karma!” or…

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    features, such as the concepts of samsara, karma and moksha. But, they also differs in many things, even including the concepts of three aforementioned terms. This essay will compare the following five concepts: karma, samasara, ahimsa, moksha, and world renunciation, and explain their purposes in both Hinduism and Jainism. Notably these five concepts are surprisingly complex and carries great deals of importance to both religions. In general definition, karma is “the cosmic principle according…

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    Karma, Reincarnation and the Caste system had a significant impact on Ancient Indian society. As there are over 1 Billion Hindus in the world today it is as important as ever to understand these aspects of Hinduism. Karma determines into which Caste a Hindu is reincarnated. Good Karma results in reincarnation into an improved or higher Caste. Bad Karma results in reincarnation into a lower or less desirable Caste. Karma is your combined words, thoughts and actions, in the past and the present.…

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    Both Theravada Buddhism and Jainism consider karma to influence a never-ending cycle of life and death. All beings are subject to this cycle. However, Jains regard this cycle to be the continuation of the soul throughout life and death, whereas Theravada Buddhists deny even the existence of souls. Following from this belief system, Jains use their version of the soul to equate all nonhuman and human animals. Theravada Buddhists, on the other hand, consider nothing to have a soul, and therefore…

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    Hindu Afterlife Beliefs

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    Hindus believe in three fundamental ideas about the afterlife; they believe in karma, reincarnation and liberation. In terms of karma and reincarnation, most all Hindus have very similar beliefs, but there are numerous ideas about what happens to the soul in liberation. At the beginning of the first millennium BCE descriptions of the afterlife in Hinduism became more detailed and complex. The fundamental beliefs around karma and reincarnation are the same because they occur in the conditioned…

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    Reincarnation In Buddhism

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    Moksha. If one is being reborn, then one is reborn into a new random creature or body. The creature can be as small as a bacteria or large as a whale. Simply one can be anything. Now what can determine the next life is one’s past life’s action, karma. Karma is the action of the person, whether one did good deeds or bad deeds.…

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    huge Buddhism. Within the life span of fans they encounter a teaching that try vital as karma. Karma was a reoccurring philosophy that is mystical both Buddhism and Hinduism. Karma is actually explained by those things that place outcomes to existence that is ones affect the present and future. These steps never only include deeds but thoughts and keywords. Followers of Hinduism and Buddhism have faith that karma directs the actual method their presence will put on. Contrast & Comparison between…

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    Buddhism and Stoicism: Comparing and Contrasting Philosopher Epictetus, the creator of Stoicism, and Prince Siddhartha Gautama, the creator of Buddhism, share similar beliefs and morals despite having different views on what makes our planet work. Stoicism revolves around the belief of treating things that our in our lives as if they were borrowed. Buddhism also shares the same belief, but in a different context. According to Buddhism, the desires that we have in life are the cause of our…

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    Karma is defined as the doctrine that the good and bad acts have inevitable consequences in this and future lives. In the story of Radish and Lady Leek Stem, we karma in action. Radish entrusted Lady Leek Stem, his mother, with money to give to monks who came to the door to beg. Since she did not give money to the monks, she lied to him when he returned. As a result of her lie, instead of reaching salvation, when she died she went straight to hell, where she suffered terrible torments (such as…

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