Was the recent calamity in Taiwan caused by group karma of the people?
There are many types of karma caused by the people in this world. Roughly speaking, they fall into either group karma or individual karma. All the catastrophes encountered by an individual person are caused by his/her own individual karma. The catastrophes encountered at the same time by many people together are caused by the group karma of these people. But sometimes individual karma could also take place and overrides the effects of the group karma. For example, many people could die out of a major accident. Nevertheless, one, two, or three people may escape the accident and survive. Some time ago, there was a collapse of an underground coal mine that killed many people. When the bodies were recovered, there was even one or two person still alive and survived. This time, there were also a few people survived the mud slide in Taiwan. Last earthquake in Japan killed many people. But there were a few people escaped without even injuries. Such things appeared to be strange, but are becau
