Reply #102: Karma is more common sense and logical than God or heaven.

[demgurl]

I am Buddhist and whether you actually believe in the abstract idea of karma, your common sense can tell you that it can work in other ways than just the mystical.

If you are nice to all of those around you then people will want to be nice to you. When someone does something to you, others will want to help you. You create a more positive environment by being positive and so people act positively toward you because of your good deeds....."What you reap, so will you sow." "What goes around comes around".

If you are mean and nasty you will create enemies. People will be negative toward you and will not have any sympathy when you may need something. This is common sense as what I said above about being negative.

Even if you do not believe in the religious point of view of karma, it does make quite a bit of sense the the results, as my quotes show above, are shared in common places as well as other religions.

Is everyone always going to be kind to you if you are trying to be kind most of the time? Of course not but if you are nasty back to them then you are creating a negative environment where others do not want to be around you or help you. Rather than getting revenge and ruining our own karma, we must act in loving kindness and let others handle their own negativity they have spread. We must trust that they will get theirs in the end.

I know you were asking this question more tongue in cheek than anything else but I really felt a need to explain how much common sense really is in the philosophy called Buddhism.