Re: Making up for Bad Karma? By: WhiteRav3n / Knowledgeable
Post # 6 Jun 15, 2012
I can't believe that out of everyone posting on karma (in great detail too) no one truly understands what it is. Please! If you're going to believe in something, research it.
" , we are the result of what we were; we will be the result of what we are. In another sense, it should be added, we are not totally the result of what we were; we will not absolutely be the result of what we are. The present is no doubt the offspring of the past and is the present of the future, but the present is not always a true index of either the past or the future; so complex is the working of Karma."
"natural law and justice...cannot be suspended by either an Almighty God or an All-compassionate Buddha. According to this natural law, acts bear their own rewards and punishments to the individual doer whether human justice finds out or not."
While we are born to a state created by ourselves, yet by our own self-directed efforts there is every possibility for us to create new, favourable environments even here and now. Not only individually, but also, collectively, we are at liberty to create fresh Karma that leads either towards our progress or downfall in this very life.
"According to the Buddhist doctrine of Karma, one is not always compelled by an ‘iron necessity’, for Karma is neither fate, nor predestination imposed upon us by some mysterious unknown power to which we must helplessly submit ourselves. It is one’s own doing reacting on oneself, and so one has the possibility to divert the course of one’s Karma to some extent. How far one diverts it depends on oneself."
Karma is a broad term basically meaning what goes around comes around. In some way, shape or form what you do will come right back to you whether it be good or not so good. "Karma" the word is normally religious, it is expressed in Wicca, Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, and several other religions. Each belief system has its own views of "Karma". Buddhism was explained by WhiteRav3n. You also have Hinduism which is fairly similar in philosophy but it has more to do with reincarnation. Same thing with Christianity, you deal with what you dealt some time after death as some souls are sent to Purgatory to hear "their sentence". Wicca often believe in the 3 Fold Law, what you do comes back 3 fold.
You take your specific beliefs and determine the best way to appease your actions.
If you are Christian, go pray, ask God for forgiveness and then go out and help an old lady cross the street.
If you are Hindu, let's hope it wasn't too bad and just move on.
If you're Buddhist, meditate and decide yourself what consequences you and others had to face.
If you're Wicca, personally I'd go out and do three good things theoretically evening out the playing field.
"Karma" is a concept often described as some higher force or naturally occurring phenomena that basically tries to maintain a balance. It's all about balance. You do something bad, let's say you feel guilty and do something good. It's really all you can do. Whether you do something good for yourself or someone else that's basically the answer.
Don't try to appease Karma like it's a god, you have nothing to pray to, you have no one to give offerings to.
Also the point is not to try and avoid Karma because you're scared of the consequences, you need to understand there are consequences for everything whether you give it some spiritual significance and call it Karma or just say that's the way the things work. The idea is to learn to take responsibility.
One other misconception about Karma is that everything bad that happens to you is deserved. No that's not what Karma does it's not some angry vengeful spirit that wants to have you framed for murder and thrown in prison because you tripped your little sister 5 years ago. That's not the idea of Karma, some things really do just happen. Sometimes there is a reason, but even then it's not always because of Karma.
You don't have to face the consequences if you calculate them.If you "think 10 times and speak 1 time" like they say in my country,you'll never have to face bad Karma.
As I said Karma is more like some sort of social problem rather than magical.So the method of evading Bad Karma is social,not magical.
And you say you did some things you're not proud of;unless you broke the law or you've messed up with criminals that can kill you, whatever you did it can't be so dangerous.
Most likely you've pissed off someone you don't want to.Unless this person happens to be one of your parents(or both of them),just ignore everything he/she says.If it's your parent/s who's pissed off,try to hide everything you did.Bury it as deeply as you can.
P.S:What did you do so much bad you're afraid bad Karma will hit you?Though on the way you wrote the message it looks to me like you betrayed some close friends of yours for your profit:
"...make up for them..."-means you've hurt more than just 1 person.
"...without any gain..."-means you did something you profited on these persons.
One counsel from me(always supposing you hurt your friends):
Don't think for others more than you think for yourself as no one would do that for you,and if you saved yourself instead of your friends when they were wrong in what they did,you don't have to be ashamed.Instead you have to be proud you did what was right,though it would have been better if you'd ask your friends not to do the wrong they did.
You're looking down every alley for something bad but you need to look for the good because its only happening because you assume ti will so you're letting it get to you and making it happen
To make that shorter:
Live life and have fun and forget about it
Re: Making up for Bad Karma? By: WhiteRav3n / Knowledgeable
Post # 11 Jun 16, 2012
Nice post Dem/Fred
As for the poster, the more you focus on negative thoughts and emotions, the more likely you will cause negativity to enter your life. True good Karma is about thinking positively, behaving positively, and not sweating the small stuff.
Life sucks? Make it better. Not through magick but through action, thought, etc. Life is good? Enjoy it and share it with others. People focus on the little things, worry about them, and cause their own misery. Then this snowballs bringing them down even farther until they're consumed by their own self inflicted misery asking "why me?" and feeling they've been cursed. When in truth, they have to look in a mirror for the blame and the cure.
"law of attraction."
-->>think positively, positive energy will come and vise versa..
hhmm.. actually, karma is just for the people who believes it.. not all people believes in karma in a sense.. it is just like the very result of what you have done.. so better yet, before you do or say something think of it a hundred times because if you fail no one has to blame but yourself only.. but if in an instance you fail, then learn from it.. you are the only god yourself.. you are the master of your own fate.. its not about the things around you that will decide of what will happen to you because of your actions.. its you, yourself, and you alone is responsible for the things you have done.. -->>opinion only, from the luciferian point of view.. ;)
My advice, dont worry about it, by expecting Karma to return on you, the guilt your harbouring will make it appear it is, frankly what you did is in the past, forget it and move on
Well I don't believe in karma. But if you're feeling guilty you need to forgive yourself. That can take time but its necessary to move on. You might also try doing something good for the people who you wronged, but be careful because that doesn't always work, it kinda depends on if they know it was you, how bad it was, and how close you are to them. You could also try volunteer work. Just make sure its a cause you really care about.
Well if you believe in Karma, to answer your question, just learn from your mistakes, move on and do "good" deeds to improve your "good" Karma and reduce your "bad" Karma.
