To summarize an hour-long discourse, the gist of my friend’s opinion: Besides being superstitious nonsense physically and intellectually unsubstantiated, karma essentially credits people for their successes and blames them for their failures. What’s more, a person’s karmic sum will decide the form he or she takes in the next life. The effects of an action can therefore be visited upon a person in a future life, and the good or bad fortune someone experiences may be the result of actions performed in past lives. Importantly, karma is wrapped up with the concept of reincarnation or rebirth, in which a person is born in a new human (or nonhuman) body after death. With karma, like causes produce like effects: a good deed will lead to a future beneficial effect, while a bad deed will lead to a future harmful effect…. This rule also applies to a person’s thoughts and words…. Karma…though its specifics are different depending on the religion… generally denotes the cycle of cause and effect - each action a person takes will affect him or her at some time in the future. He simply could not overlook the damage done by the concepts of karma and reincarnation (central to both Hinduism and Buddhism). We were talking religion specifically, his refutation of his religious background (although, in part to please his family, he kept up with a few of what he considered to be non-religious, cultural practices).
Especially as per the issues of privilege and systemic racism that the Black Lives Matter movement is bringing to the fore…as well as a host of other life situations.Īs I read BEFC’s proselytizing prose I flashed back to a bar conversation I’d had many years ago, with a friend who’d emigrated to the USA (with his parents) from India when he was an adolescent.
The Buddhist Evangelical Fundamentalist Commenter (BEFC) quoted a Buddhist adage: Now I have to slag it from memory.īTW, be it the Christian version, or Buddhist/Hindu/Karmic fundamentalism, I call BS on all of ’em. It turns out WWF was way ahead of me, and deleted the comment soon after it was posted.
I thought about privately messaging Wise and Witty Friend, something along the lines of, Hey, WWF, would you allow someone to post a fundamentalist Christian tract on your page, because some Karma fundamentalist has just done the equivalent. At least it wasn’t pimply-faced kids half your age showing up on your front porch, calling themselves, “Elder.”
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