" What Goes Around Comes Around"
The phrase "what goes around comes around" was a very widely used phrase used not only by parents to children, but as a somewhat threat towards someone has has done you wrong, or hurt you in any way. Despite the lenght of the phrase "what goes around comes around" it basically falls deeply into the term of Karma.
Karma is the concept in hunduism which exsplains casualties through a system where benificial effects are derrived from post benificial actions and harmful effects from post harmful actions. Creating a system of actions and reactions throught a persons reencarnated life. Karma literally means deed or act and more broadly names the universal principle of cause and effect, action and reaction, which hindus believe govern all life. I firmly believe that if americans followed this same principle along with the ones that we already have the United Staes would be a much better place.
It is believed that only beings that can distinguish between right and wrong such as adults and humans, can accumalate karma. Animals and small children are not resposible and cannot accumilate karma as they are incapable of discriminating between right and wrong.
Karma is not fate. Humans are believed to act with free will creating their own destinys. For example if an individual sows goodness, he or she will reap goodness. if he or she sows evil, he or she will reap evil. Karma refers to the totality of mankinds reactions and the comcenitant reaaction in current and previous lives all of which is determined by the future, however many karmas do not have an immediate effect, some accumilate and return unexspectadly in an individuals later lives. The contrast of karma has believed to lie in inteligent action and dispassionate reaction.
Karma is the action of doing, any kind of intentional action whether mental or physical is regarded as karma. It covers all thats included int eh phrase "thought, word, or deed" genarally speakin all good and bad action constitutes karma.
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You've identified a belief system (karma) and juxtaposed it with a common phrase ("what goes around comes around"). This is interesting because I don't think people who use this phrase would necessarily think that they believe in karma. This could easily give you a nice opening line--something about most people not knowing they're part hindu. The challenge now is to develop your own perspective on karma that goes beyond defining it.
You've got several different statements about what karma is, but you've got to get to why this matters. Who cares that some people believe in karma. what's your perspective on it? what do you want to point out about believing in it? What reasons do people have for believing in it? In what situations do we tell ourselves "what goes around comes around"?
Here are a few questions to get you thinking about why believing in karma matters:
- how does beleiving in karma affect one's moral outlook? one's sense of responsibility?
- how strict is karma? if something bad happens to someone, do you assume they did something wrong (in a previous life?)?
- who/what enforces karma? does one have to believe in a god? in nature? in cosmic balance?
- how is believing in karma different from believing in an afterlife where you get punished or rewarded?
- would Americans act differently if they beleived in karma?
- why do we need beliefs like karma? how would we act if there was no religious or cosmic justice for how we act? where do atheists get their morals?
- Is it true, as Voltaire said, that "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him." If we have karma, do we need God?
These are just a few ways you can develop your sense of why thinking more deeply about karma is important.
As you rewrite, you also need to acknowledge sources. There's a lot of "patch-writing" here--sentences taken from other sources and strung together with no acknowledgement of the original source (in other words, parts of this essay are currently plagairized).
I look forward to your revision.
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