Karma's a ***!

[emjay]

I've always been interested in Buddhism, but there are definitely two different ways of looking at karma. There's the superstitious, religious version, where it's thought some sort of supernatural balancing justice, perhaps even over different reincarnated lifetimes. I don't really know... I'm not interested in that type of Buddhism at all. I'm interested in the supposed original form of it, before it was tainted by religion, and in that case the understanding of karma just means cause and effect, nothing supernatural about it... you reap what you sow through cause and effect, and nothing else. If you're interested, I'd recommend the book 'What the Buddha Taught' by Walpola Rahula, for a look at the (alleged) origins of Buddhism, stripped of all the modern religious dogma that usually accompanies it.