Karma (Kamma)

“My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground upon which I stand.”

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them. ~Dalai Lama

一切唯心造 (일체유심조), "All things are created by the mind" 

諸惡莫作 衆善奉行 (제악막작중선봉행), "Do no evil and do all good deeds." 

諸行無常 (제행무상), "all things are impermanent."

無執無畏 (무집무외), “No attachment, no fear.” 

不怒 (불노), "Don't get angry." 

“All dharmas are without self (諸法無我 제법무아).” 

"Compassion" (慈悲), "Great Compassion" (大慈大悲 대자대비).

Searching all directions with your awareness, you find no one dearer than yourself. In the same way, others are dear to themselves. So you shouldn’t hurt others if you love yourself. - the Buddha

To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings. ~Bodhidharma

The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not bear the guilt of the father, nor the father bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.-  Ezekiel 18:20

“The meaning of karma is in the intention. The intention behind action is what matters.” - The Bhagavad Gita

Killing, deceiving, or misleading someone's mind by driving him to insanity or mindless wasteland by preaching a fake religious doctrine or faith is the worst of all the karma you can inflict on yourself and others. - Edward Rim

“Your believing or not believing in karma has no effect on its existence, nor on its consequences to you. Just as a refusal to believe in the ocean would not prevent you from drowning.” ~ F. Paul Wilson, The Tomb

Karma does not necessarily reward or retribute in like kind, but with the exact weight to an ounce, in severity, or in magnitude. Often stretching many lives afterward, there is no such thing as forgiveness or salvation from karma. You are what your karma is. You live as you pay for your karma, building and changing your karma at the same time. -Edward Rim

“Karma is a tricky thing. To serve karma, one must repay good karma to others. To serve karma well, one must sometimes deliver bad karma where it is due.” —M.R. Mathias

 

“Karma is justice. It does not reward or punish. It shows no favoritism because we all have to earn all that we receive. Karma doesn’t predestine anything. We create our own causes and Karma adjusts the effects with perfect balance.” - Mary T. Browne

 

“Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.” ―Arthur Conan Doyle

 

 

“Realize that everything connects to everything else.” Leonardo da Vinci

 

“Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.”  Sakyong Mipham

“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.” Kin Hubbard

“Contrary to popular misconception, karma has nothing to do with punishment and reward. It exists as part of our holographic universe’s binary or dualistic operating system only to teach us responsibility for our creations, and all things we experience are our creations.” – Sol Luckman

“Every act is done, no matter how insignificant, will eventually return to the doer with equal impact. Good will be returned with good; evil with evil.” Nishan Panwar

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” Robert Louis Stevenson

 

“When you carry out acts of kindness, you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, ‘Yes, this is how I ought to feel.'” Harold Kushner

“The universe does not carry debts. It always returns back to you what you gave it.”Drishti Bablani

I've really been extremely lucky. Some people work just as hard, are just as intelligent, and they don't get their breaks. I've just gotten the breaks. Maybe it's good karma. -Jorge Pérez

“Remember to honor the hand which reached out for you when you needed it, by being that hand to someone else who is struggling.” Greg Dutilly

“There are the waves, and there is the wind, seen and unseen forces. Everyone has these same elements in their lives, the seen and unseen, karma, and free will.” Kuan Yin

“Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as coincidence.” Haruki Murakami

  

“When you truly understand karma, then you realize you are responsible for everything in your life.” Keanu Reeves

 

“Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.” Edwin Hubbell Chapin

 

“But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.” Bret Easton Ellis

“Show a little faith in someone when they need it. It’s amazing how it comes back around to you.” Garon Whited

 

“It is impossible to build one’s own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.” —Daisaku Ikeda

 

“The ones you judge today may be the judgments you endure tomorrow.”

“A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.” Chanakya

“You cannot control the results, only your actions.” Allan Lokos

“This is your karma. You do not understand now, but you will understand later.” —H. Raven Rose

 

“If your actions were to boomerang back on you instantly, would you still act the same?” —Alexandra Katehakis

“There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life—happiness, freedom, and peace of mind—are always attained by giving them to someone else.” Peyton C. March.

“Most times, how you treat your children is how they grow up to treat you.” —Terry Mark

“When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms.” —Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

 

“Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.”

“There’s a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.” —Sylvester Stallone

“You cannot do harm to someone because someone has done harm to you. You will pay just like they will.”

Karma stretches out to perpetuity, the life of endless lives, the endless life of birth, aging, sickness, and death—the endless cycle of suffering to varying degrees. Only enlightenment will set you free from the cycle of birth, living (karma building and changing), and death. -Edward Rim

 

“Karma, when properly understood, is just the mechanics through which consciousness manifests.”

 

Karma will always find you in the rightful place to pay for your bad deed or reward for your good deed. - Edward Rim

“I want revenge, but I don’t want to screw up my karma.” Susan Colasanti

“Sometimes you get the karma. Sometimes you are the karma.” Amie Kissel

Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma. ~Mahavira

“Every moment of your life, you perform an action—physically, mentally, emotionally, and energy-wise. Each action creates a certain memory. That is karma.”

“People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead.”

 

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

“In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for his own misdeeds. The man who remembers this will be angry with no one, indignant with no one, revile no one, blame no one, offend no one, hate no one.” Epictetus

“If you give your best to someone it will most definitely come back to you, often from a different person altogether.”

 

“Remember the unkindness, dishonesty, and deception you display toward others… don’t be shocked when it comes back to bite you.”

“You reap what you sow: Life is like a boomerang. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.”

 

“Often when someone hurts you, they aren’t hurting you because you are you. They are hurting you because they are them.” —Karen Salmansohn

 

“Stop blaming others for the pains and sufferings you have. They are because of you, your karma, and your own disposition.”

“What you hate, you re-create; and what you bless, you put to rest.”

 

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. ~Steve Jobs

I'm a true believer in karma. You get what you give, whether it's bad or good. ~Sandra Bullock

See, talent is important, and so is hard work. But if you don't have destiny and good karma on your side, talent cannot do the magic by itself. ~Himesh Reshammiya

I used to worry a lot and regret a lot before I took on this whole concept of karma. But now I understand that destiny is what it's all about. I still push ahead and look forward to achieving certain goals but I try not to lay up expectations that they have to happen. ~Judith Durham

I think we all follow our destiny, we all have karma, we all have certain life paths and life journeys that we have to take. ~Bebe Buell

My mother made me believe in reincarnation, in karma. If I live a good life, I believe I will be reincarnated as a higher being. If I live a bad life, I believe I will be reincarnated as a lower being. ~John Barnes

I'm a firm believer in karma. By doing good, good things eventually find you. I don't have an American Express Black Card, but I like to think that I would if I could fill it with karma points. ~Chieh Huang

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

Karma is karma. Karma is in life. You do the wrong things, you get the wrong things out of it. ~Antonio Brown

Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.