>>301426>>301428>>301486>KarmaThe meaning of karma that I was taught is that karma ends when you decide not to do evil by harming or hurting others or taking revenge, thereby cutting off one of the causes of suffering.
Of course, that doesn't mean you can't respond violently or defend yourself, but if you do nothing, the suffering only gets worse. You can only mitigate or avoid it completely, which is why pain is inevitable but suffering is optional.
>But is egoisticAnd no, it's not pure selfishness. I know that if I drink water, I'm being selfish, and in third world countries there is no water, but it's not something I can magically change. Nor can I abandon everything and let myself get sick helping others because then I wouldn't be able to help others. Think of it like when the emergency oxygen masks fall on an airplane: first yourself and then others, because if you're not okay, you won't be able to help others. People forget this, but Buddha spoke of the middle way because he opposed the ascetic extremism and extremes of his time of Sramana practices.
>But nonviolence make you a cope pacifis…And no, it's not about nonviolence. Do you think there were warrior monks in China and Japan who had no problem with violence and going to war? The same thing happens with activists and charities that start out Buddhist.
>AlsoSo no, I don't see karma as the law of the boomerang or the three fingers pointing others and two fingers you or an eye for an eye like new agers or wiccans. These are not Chinese social points that will affect your other life, if it exists, but they are likely to affect your only present life because those who live restlessly, with hatred, resentment, fear, shame, evil, and violence tend to get sick, make others sick, and die violently. So I choose to find, make and have peace bacause that turn me free of some causes of suffering. And in this way, I also relieve some of the suffering of others.