""In Buddhist teaching, the law of karma, says only this: `for every event that occurs, there will follow another event whose existence was caused by the first, and this second event will be pleasant or unpleasant according as its cause was skillful or unskillful.' A skillful event is one that is not accompanied by craving, resistance or delusions; an unskillful event is one that is accompanied by any one of those things. (Events are not skillful in themselves, but are so called only in virtue of the mental events that occur with them.)
Therefore, the law of Karma teaches that responsibility for unskillful actions is born by the person who commits them. ""
Karma - Physically, action: metaphysically, the LAW OF RETRIBUTION, the Law of cause and effect or Ethical Causation...Karma neither punishes nor rewards, it is simply the one Universal Law which guides unerringly, and so to say, blindly, all other laws productive of certain effects along the grooves of their respective causations. (Theosophical Glossary, pp.173-74)
I personally believe in both Karma and God...I dont follow any one religion, I have my own spirituality...I believe that when people dont believe in anything its because they dont want to have any consequences to their actions. Believing in a higher being would mean they have to live their life a certain way and be responsible for thier actions, which most people dont want to do......most religions follow the same principle of karma but I dont believe its related to religion...jmo
