Friday, September 7, 2007

Karma, karma, karma, karma, karma chameleon










I know that a lot of singers like Alicia Keys, Lloyd Banks and Culture Club sing songs titled Karma. But what does it mean really? Here's the definition; in religion such as Hinduism and Buddhism, karma is the belief that your actions in this life affect all your future lives. Karma is called gou(цен)in Japanese, and it is composed of three things: actions your body make, words speaking out from your mouth and intensions that exists in your heart. And originally karma means actions caused by these three elements. If you haven't done anything wrong in this life, you would have a glory life in the next life. If you have done something wrong so far like killing someone or stealing something or betraying someone, you would literally have a really hard life. In turn if you have an extremely hard life now, you had done something wrong in the previous life because most of Japanese believe in samsara. Samsara is the belief that people are supposed to be born again and again and again. But I want you to remember that this is just a belief, so maybe it's not going to happen to you (you're relieved to hear that now, right?) In my opinion, this is a good lesson or a cautionary lesson that encourages all people not to do something wrong. Please make sure not to do something wrong, though. Why? Because it's not nice to make your mom cry!

1 comment:

Sheen Osuke said...

Your sentences are very interesting! Old Japanese people have that concept.
I'm going to think about myself.