@Arthur,
Arthur wrote:
My Karma story
Last Christmas Eve I was invited by one of my students to have dinner at a Japanese Restuarant. On the way to that diner, we saw a begger by the side of the pavement. I usually don't give anything to those beggers who just stand there without doing anything, but to those who actually sing, or play any kindda musical instrument, because at lease they are making some sort of efforts to earn the offerings. However, since that was the Christmas Eve, and according to the Christmas spirit, I thought we should offer something to the poor, so I, without any hesitation, gave that beggar five yuan. My student was laughing at me and teasing me, saying that I should give her the money. I smiled and shaked my head.
After the dinner, I said maybe we should ask for a receipt to try our luck! My student paid for the dinner and she insisted that we shouldn't. Despite her rejection, I asked the waitress to give me the receipt when my student was using the bathroom.
When the waitress came with the receipt later on, I scratched the 'lottery' part with a fork and I was stunned to find I actually hit the 'jackpot'. Guess how much I won?
Fifty! Fifty Yuan! My student sighed: "Now I know why people call you a lucky dog!"
I gave five yuan for the beggar and now I got 50 yuan in return.
I had a friend who told me a similar story. One day she helped a blind man to cross the street early in the morning, and in the afternoon she bought a lottery ticket and hit the Jackpot. She won 100 Yuan on that day.
Is that Karmar? I think that is what we often say one good turn deserves another.
This is not karma. What about those occasions when someone gave money and nothing happened as a result? What about those times someone never gives anything yet they keep winning things.
My opinion is that you are associating the two things and linking them together to say that the first caused the second. I say no it was only a coincidence and since you never link any of the times when things like this do not happen together. This is where superstition comes from and baseball players know it the best. They get in all kinds of these sorts of "karma" rituals to try and repeat their success but it never happens. Why? Because karma does not work in this way.
Karma means volitional action. Which means what you do has an effect. The only karma that is produced by giving someone money is that they received some money without having to do anything for it. That is where the karma ends. It doesn't just magically come back and give you back what you gave and then some. That is a farce.
