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For those who want to purify negative karma, they can turn the Prayer Wheel and recite these mantras – Mitrugpa, Kunrig, Namgyalma, the Lotus Pinnacle or Amogapasha wish granting wheel mantra and the Stainless Pinnacle mantra.Prayer Wheel, in The new Prayer Wheel is finished!

— Karma prayer

In Hinduism, the Law of Karma is viewed as a divinely sustained and revealed universal Law. The law of karma encourages us to rely on ourselves.Bhagavad Gita, in Explore Hinduism, p. 77

— Karma courage

Whatever karma a soul has acquired through its own prior needs, it will obtain the good and bad results thereof. If one can obtain results from the deeds of others, then surely his own deeds would be meaningless. Except for karma earned for oneself by oneself, no one gives anything to anyone. Reflecting upon this fact, therefore, let every person unwaveringly, abandon the perverse notion that another being can provide him with anything at all.Acaraya Amitagati, in Collected Papers on Jaina Studies, quoted by Padmanabh S. Jaini, p. 136

This emphasis on reaping the fruits only of ones own karma was not restricted to the Jainas; both Hindus and Buddhist writers have produced doctrinal materials stressing the same point. Each of the latter traditions, however, developed practices in basic contradiction to such belief. In addition to shraddha the ritual Hindu offerings by the son of deceased, we find among Hindus widespread adherence to the notion of divine intervention in ones fate, while Buddhists eventually came to propound such theories like boon-granting Bodhisattvas, transfer of merit and like. Only Jainas have been absolutely unwilling to allow such ideas to penetrate their community, despite the fact that there must have been tremendous amount of social pressure on them to do soAcaraya Amitagatis saying summarized by Padmanabh S. Jaini, in Collected Papers on Jaina Studies, p. 136

— Karma belief

Acaraya Amitagatis saying summarized by Padmanabh S. Jaini, in Collected Papers on Jaina Studies, p. 136

They explain all the inequalities and diversities of life and character by the law of Karma, which governs the process of Reincarnation as well as the gradual evolution of the germs of life from lower to higher stages of existence.Swami Abhedananda, in Vedanta Philosophy - Five Lectures on Reincarnation, p. 24

Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad, and the chain which is wrought out of our virtues holds as firmly and as closely as that forged from our vices.Annie Besant, Karma, p. 64

— Karma death

Though the names karma yoga and sannyasa are different, the truth at the heart of both is the same.Vinoba Bhave, in Aryan Path, Volume 31, p. 508

— Karma truth

The Gita uses the word ‘karma’ action in the sense of swadharma. We eat, drink, sleep; these are all actions. But these are not the actions that the Gita refers to when it talks of karma. Karma refers to the performance of swadharma. But in order to attain desirelessness through such karma, an important aid is necessary. One must overcome desire, attachment and anger. One cannot have desirelessness unless and until the mind has become pure and calm like the waters of the Ganga. The actions necessary for the purification of mind are called vikarma by the Gita. Karma, vikarma and akarma—these three terms are important Karma means the outward actions done in the pursuit of swadharma. Vikarma means total involvement of the mind therein.Vinoba Bhave, in Talks on the Gita, p. 48-49

Karma is very much needed to enable us to understand the state of our minds. We can remove our defects only when we become aware of them. If we are not aware of them, all efforts for progress and growth will come to naught. It is while doing work that we become aware of our defects. Vikarma is then to be employed to get rid of those defects. With ceaseless application of vikarma inwardly, we will gradually come to know how to remain detached while performing swadharma, how to remain beyond desires and passions, anger, greed, temptations and delusions. When there is a constant endeavour to purify karma, pure karma will follow naturally and effortlessly.Vinoba Bhave, in Talks on the Gita, p. 57

What kind of life a person is reborn into depends on Karma. Karma refers to all the deeds, words, and thoughts of one’s life. Buddhists believe karma is the deciding factor in ones fate in his or her next life. Therefore,a person who led a life self centeredness and selfishness may be reborn as a rat.Buddhism, as explained by Walter Hazen, in Inside Buddhism, p. 12

Unlike the Hindu concept of karma, however, karma in Buddhism is not deterministic since there is in Buddhism no idea of a God who is the controller of karma; rather Buddhism takes karma as moral power, emphasizing the possibility of final release from the round of transmigration through a free decision of the will. Accordingly, on the one hand, we are bound by our own karma which shares in and inseparably linked to karma operating in the universe.Buddhism, in Buddhism and Interfaith Dialogue: Part One of a Two-Volume Sequel to Zen and , p. 84

Buddhists believe that the rebirths that arise are a result of the karma we have. Karma is the idea that every action has a reaction. If people do good then good will follow. If people choose to do evil, then evil will follow or as s you sow so will you reap. The results of the karma can be experienced in the present lifetime, even day by day.

Karma just does not work for individuals but can also have an effect on the whole nation or the whole planet. Buddhists talk about collective karma, when the consequences of action taken by whole countries can often change things. For example, Buddhists would argue that the way rich nations treat the poor nations of the world may well affect the karma of a whole country or a group a such as the United Nations.Cavan Wood, In Buddhism, p. 17

— Karma change

Im a true believer in karma. You get what you give, whether its bad or good.Sandra Bullock, in Happiness Is A Choice, p. 23

— Karma happiness

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, in Chanakya Niti, p. 13

— Karma experience

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.Wayne W. Dyer, in The Soulful 7, p. 100

— Karma people

Samsara is the belief that we are stuck in a karmic wheel of suffering and, until we realize our full spiritual potential, we keep returning to learn and understand our ultimate being. Karma plays a huge part in this belief because it is your Karma that decides whether you evolve or devolve at your next birth, Samsara is symbolized as the endless knot.Nicholas Eldridge on Buddhism, in Where Do We Begin, p. 48

Endless knot: The intertwined lines symbolize that all phenomena are interdependent and joined together in a closed cycle of karmic cause and effect. The endless knot also represents the infinite wisdom of the Buddha - without beginning and without end - and the union of compassion and wisdom. And it signifies the illusory character of time, because it is endless.Madonna Gauding, in The Signs and Symbols Bible: The Definitive Guide to Mysterious Markings, p. 136

— Karma wisdom

If thou deemest that the path of understanding is more excellent than the path of action, O, Janaradhna w:Krishna|Krishna]], when dost thou urge me to do this savage deed, O, Kesava, Krisna?Bhagavad Gita section Chapter 3.1.2 Karma yoga , in Hindu Spirituality Vedas Through Vedanta

— Karma spirituality

Prarabdha Karma is of three categories, Ichha, Anichha and Parechha personally desired, without desire and due to others desire. For the one who has realised the Self, there is no Ichha-Prarabdha but the two others, Anichha and Parechha, remain. Whatever a Jnani Self-realised does is for others only. If there are things to be done by him for others, he does them but the results do not affect him. Whatever be the actions that such people do, there is no Punya and no Papa attached to them. But they do only what is proper according to the accepted standard of the world – nothing else.Ramana Maharshi, in Karma & Destiny

— Karma people

Even chance meetings are the result of karmaThings in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as coincidence.Haruki Murakami, in Kafka On The Shore, p. 33

Jivas souls are either caught by karma action in the world of reincarnation samsara or liberated mukta and perfected siddha.Jainism, in Bhagavan Mahavira and Jain Dharma

Ethics is as crucial to a politician as it is to a religious practitioner. Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion.Dalai Lama XIV, Dalailama.com

Jainism conveys a totally different meaning of Karma as commonly understood in the Hindu philosophy and western civilization. According to Tatvartasutra, karma is a mechanism that makes us thoroughly experience the themes of our life until weve gained optimal knowledge from them and until our emotional attachment to these themes falls off.Hermann Kuhn, in Ultimate Truth, Book 1, quoted by Peter C. Rogers, p. 58

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— Karma religion

Sikhism is a faith of hope and cheer. Though it affirms Karma, it recognises the possibility of the modification of ones Karma with the grace of the Guru or God. It does not lead to despair and defeatism.Sikhism, in Sikhism

The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.William Irwin Thompson, in, The Zen Approach to Project Management: Working from Your Center to Balance , p. 141

The essence of Karma is to know the truth of oneself by inquiring ‘Who am I, the doer, who begins to do Karmas?’ Unless the doer of Karmas, the ego, is annihilated through inquiry, the perfect peace of supreme bliss, which is the result of Karma Yoga, cannot be achieved.Ramana Maharshi, in Karma & Destiny

— Karma truth

To desire and make a display of clothing is karma for the path of beasts. To greedily Crave food is karma for the path of famished ghosts.Ippen, in No abode: the Record of Ippen, p. 105

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