Word Finder - karma

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The sum total of a person's actions, which determine the person's next incarnation in samsara, the cycle of death and rebirth.

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A force or law of nature which causes one to reap what one sows; destiny; fate.

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A distinctive feeling, aura, or atmosphere.

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(Reddit) A score assigned to a user of a discussion forum, indicating the popularity of their posts with other users.

This is totally karma, she told herself angrily.

I hope I'm around to see karma coming back on you.

Or maybe it was all her fault, created by bad karma she built up when she was some crazy deity in a past life she had no memory of.

In India, before Buddhism, conflicting and contradictory views prevailed as to the precise mode of action of Karma; and we find this confusion reflected in Buddhist theory.

Abby was so confident in the reality of karma that she did nothing without thinking about how it could affect her in her next life.

Abusing a partner's kindness will bring back heavy karma and will be paid in full.

You may think it's nonsense, but this house feels full of bad karma.

Doing what he had done had created major karma.

Because of the good work that Scott does in his community, karma is treating him well.

Everyone who knows Kayla knows that she believes strongly in karma and reincarnation.

At no stage of a human life within society can bad karma be avoided.

The doctrine of Karma is with modification common to both Buddhism and Brahminism, and in their expositions theosophists have apparently drawn from both sources.

Spread the love, energy and good karma of Life is Good.

Salvation is to the Hindu simply deliverance from the power of karma, and each of the philosophic systems has its own method of obtaining it.

Karma was a bitch, but it wasn't indiscriminate, was it?

His death could, like Lennon's, have been his karma, his mission accomplished.

Then why is a crap ton of her bad karma killing me?

The word Karma, however, is often used to designate only the law's reaction to man's doings.

Barrett believes that it's just his karma for all his romantic relationships to end in ruin.

He growled, "More like Karma getting back at me for all the years I objectified women."

By labeling the cause good or bad I produce dialectical karma.

I was so determined to change my karma that I decided to quit smoking and volunteer at the homeless shelter.

We Brits need to become global healers, to redeem our national karma.

The link of connexion between the various Bodhisats in the future Buddha's successive births is not a soul which is transferred from body to body, but the karma, or character, which each successive Bodhisat inherits from his predecessors in the long chain of existences.

Whence the concept of linear karma dominates the foreground of ethics.

Whoever has the highest karma at the end of the week gets made moderator, then their karma gets reset to zero.

Jacob's constant bad luck proves that karma is a myth because he is the kindest person I know.

But, be this as it may," the doctrine of karma is certainly one of the firmest beliefs of all classes of Hindus, and the fear that a man shall reap as he has sown is an appreciable element in the average morality.

The ancient books, preserved in the Pali Pitakas, being mainly occupied with the details of Arahatship, lost their exclusive value in the eyes of those whose attention was being directed to the details of Bodhisatship. And the opinion that every leader in their religious circles, every teacher distinguished among them for his sanctity of life, or for his extensive learning, was a Bodhisat, who might have and who probably had inherited the karma of some great teacher of old, opened the door to a flood of superstitious fancies.

In Brahminic thought Karma, the consequences of action, necessitates rebirth in a lower or higher mode of existence, according to guilt or merit.

The second question is whether abortion always generates bad karma, or in Western terms, is it ever " justified.

This is why psychological karma is different from moral karma.

In this yoga hand pose, the middle finger represents the planet Saturn, which signifies patience and karma.

Curiously, Buddhism itself is ruled by the ghost or shadowy remainder of belief in transmigration - Karma.

The last book of the Laws of Manu deals with karmaplialam, " the fruit of karma," and gives many curious details of the way in which sin is punished and merit rewarded.

Now the older school also held, in the first place, that, when a man had, in this life, attained to Arahatship, his karma would not pass on to any other individual in another life - or in other words, that after Arahatship there would be no rebirth; and, secondly, that four thousand years after the Buddha had proclaimed the Dhamma or doctrine of Arahatship, his teaching would have died away, and another Buddha would be required to bring mankind once more to a knowledge of the truth.

The soul is from the Lord, and is submitted in this life to the bondage of works (karma); " Mankind, in their obstinacy, keep binding themselves in the net of actions, and though they know and hear of the bliss of those who have faith in the Lord, they attempt not the only means of release.

So when did the karma chameleon start cultivating an interest in politics?

It will also clear a lot of accumulated karma, making space for the new order.

Bugs Bugs, bugs, now I'm at war got a bug karma, it's bed-bugs for sure.

Karma votes are a method to vote the ' karma votes are a method to vote the ' karma ' of an item.

The Indian term ' karma ' is ideal for my purpose.

Karma Sutra were given the full- on treatment by the customs ie Strip search dismantling the van all in all a 6 hour ordeal!

Sherpa team, under the leadership of our Sirdar, Karma, went ahead of us to establish the camp.

One person in particular looks like he's auditioning to be in the next karma sutra, only with clothes and on a train.

Good Karma goes to he who does his tiling and only says two swearwords.

This is the sound of your soul being purified by fire, burning away years of negative karma.

In addition, Karma points are redeemable.

You will earn one Karma Point for each $1 you spend in any retail purchase.

Earn two Karma Points for making an on-time payment each month.