"Karma" in the generally used as good or bad energy usually based your behavior. Bad situations are sometimes described as having "bad karma" meaning it has a bad feeling or energy about it. People also talk about "karma is going to get them" meaning there will be some type of future pay back or retribution for a bad deed.

Hi, apart from philosophy, the short and colloquial version of the word means: -- if you do something, you will receive the same back example: While driving, I made a not very friendly action and after some minutes I was stopped for a police control. I told that to my friend who laughed and said "It's the Karma". Poor human hope of divine justice...

Hi, this concept mainly came to West Europe from Hindu philosophy, because of the intellectual Orientalist movements of the late 19th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma This is what I remember about: 1. as it is connected to Yoga, which comes before Hinduism, this is not really "Religion" with Gods, but a "meaning of our existence" related to a spiritual awareness of the Universe. You can read "The Yoga Aphorisms" by Patanjali, which is a very scientific spiritual text about Yoga. This idea has influenced all the Eastern religions, since Buddhism itself stems from Hinduism: see the story of prince Siddharta Gautama 2. the concept of Karma is one and the same with in the concept of Rebirthing. The actions that we have done in a previous life have influenced our present existence 3. the main idea is: if you don't want to continue to die and be born again and again for ever, you must free your soul as soon as you can, doing good actions and refusing the attachment to Materialism 4. This is what I read from Osho: - the difference between Christianity and Karma-based religions is mainly this one: Christianity was born in the desert: you can't say to poor people that this poor life is too much for them -- you have to say that if they accept this hard life they will receive the Heaven. The Endless Wheel of Karma was conceived in a place where people had everything of everything and got bored of this, so the message was, if you don't renounce to this wealth, you'll be going to live this tedious (!) life for ever. Which is the story of prince Siddharta. Best of Karma!

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