Quotes on Karma not by a Buddha monk but by an Actress ‘Sharon Stone’ and a Senior Pastor ‘John Hagee’. How can they define karma? Who knows their Karma, my Karma, every body’s Karma. What is the definition of karma?
The philosophical explanation of karma can differ slightly between traditions, but the general concept is basically the same. Through the law of karma, the effects of all deeds actively create past, present, and future experiences, thus making one responsible for one’s own life, and the pain and joy it brings to him/her and others. The results or ‘fruits’ of actions are called karma-phala. In religions that incorporate reincarnation, karma extends through one’s present life and all past and future lives as well. Simply put Cause and effect.
Back in the 1960s, social psychologist Melvin Lerner coined the term “just world hypothesis” to describe the tendency to see the fortunate as deserving of good fortune while victims of misfortune are seen as deserving their fate. Lerner summarized 15 years of research into this phenomenon in his 1980 book, the belief in a just world: A fundamental Delusion. In his book, Lerner offers considerable evidence that after initially experiencing pangs of sympathy for those who are suffering, there is a tendency to develop negative views of persons who are suffering.
Both Sharon and John have given us their examples of world hypothesis, based on world catastrophes. Hagee claimed that Hurricane Katrina was God’s retribution for a planned “homosexual parade” in New Orleans and, now, Sharon Stone speculates that the victims of the recent Chinese earthquake could be experiencing the effects of Karma.“I’m not happy about the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans because I don’t think anyone should be unkind to anyone else,” Stone said during a Cannes Film Festival red-carpet interview with Hong Kong’s Cable Entertainment News. “And then this earthquake and all this stuff happened, and then I thought, is that karma? When you’re not nice that the bad things happen to you?”
