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Why is karma often described as a female dog?
I've seen the phrase "Karma est une chienne" (pardon my French) around here. Just wondering why people think that.
From my understanding, karma is the Buddist for "you get what you give", it is natural justice in its perfect form. So how does getting your just desserts, so to speak, make natural justice nasty and worthy of name-calling?
They've done you wrong? Karma's a b***h, man.
Well, how, exactly? Surely you wishing ill on the person is nasty, karma just is. If you believe in it, of course.
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I actually totally agree with you... kinda.
I think Karma relates to will of the mind as well as actions.
I think if you think badly of another then you will in turn have bad karma.
As for the saying. I think it's meant to say you can't escape the wrath of karma.
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That's how I take it too. To me it's like saying "What goes around comes around, so watch out!"
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The saying really doesn't have a lot to do with spiritual concepts IMO. It's more a way of people gloating that someone has (in their opinion) just gotten their just desserts. It's a corruption of the concept to express something completely non-spiritual.
Karma itself is the way the soul/spirit of a person learns about duality, so that they can finally learn about unity/oneness.
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On a completely off topic non philosophical input... I have a female dog whose name is Karma :-) We called her that because she found us and stayed with us, and we considered her good Karma :-)
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The way i see it that is only said when someone has been nasty to another and a person will say "don't worry karma's a b****" Not all karma just karma that the person who has been nasty is going to get back IYKWIM?
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Wasn't that a Star Trek film?(Yes, I know it's Kahn really.)
Thanks for the insight, ladies. Still doesn't like the phrase as it doesn't mean what it's supposed to.
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