What is karma?
Karma is a Sanskrit word that means “action.” Karma has commonly been considered a punishment for past bad actions, but karma is neither judge nor jury. Rather, it is simply the universal law of cause and effect that says every thought, word and act carries energy into the world and affects our present reality. Karma can also refer to the “work” we have ahead of us, which includes lessons from both our past and present lives. Why Is Karma Important? Part of our life’s work is to understand our individual relationship to the cosmos … to understand how the universe affects us. Based on the principle that individual behavior mirrors universal patterns, the tiniest act — a thought, for example — can have enormous impact. The energies our thoughts and actions produce can cover the entire planet, or even beyond, in the blink of an eye. An examination of karma offers clues about our intended life purpose, showing us the psychic imprint of past lives and mapping the way out of behaviors and
From a Buddhist point of view Karma does not mean “fate” or “destiny”, but may be translated as “action” or “cause and effect”. Roughly speaking, Karma works like this: Every activity – positive or negative – leaves imprints on mind. As mind’s content determines how the world is experienced, negative impressions will inevitably lead to future pain. This means that our thoughts, speech and actions sow the seeds for our future experience. It is thus in our hands to change our lives by understanding this. Used in the right way the understanding of Karma therefore means freedom. In every situation it gives beings the freedom to decide their future. The Diamond Way offers especially effective methods for removing the impressions of negative, harmful actions from mind. By this we can get rid of what would ripen as difficult states and situations in the future. Through Buddhist meditation, we can overcome the whole process of cause and effect. However, if we don’t choose to work with our mind
Karma is a reflection on a character’s actions on site. A person with a high Karma is most likely someone who has been on site a while, they’re a very experience role player and they’re generally helpful towards others. This however does NOT mean a character with little or no karma points is a bad role player. Some characters are used less frequently than others and therefore have much less karma, yet they can be played by some of the most experienced players on the site. To find out more about Karma on this site, click here.
Our choices and their consequences keep changing the reality we experience. Karma is just the consequences of old choices – old beliefs and old attitudes – which unconsciously create and re-create similar consequences, until we become conscious of them and choose to change them. In the ancient Sanskrit language “karma” meant “action”. Karma is not a punishment but an opportunity to correct old mistakes and make our lives (and ourselves) better. Free Will creates Karma and can change Karma. Our past life karma was created by exercising our own free will – that God-given right to choose for ourselves what we create in each lifetime. It’s no less a right than a child’s right to choose the course of his own life after he has been raised and guided by the human parents who created his body. more As children we learn from our mistakes. Who ever learned to walk without falling down a lot first? Karma is just uncorrected errors and lessons yet unlearned by the soul that came to animate the chi
