What is your best personal example of the existence of the concept of karma?

Karma only exists if you believe in reincarnation. There are too many examples of innocent children dying at the tender age while evil and corrupt people sometimes live to be quite aged, wealthy and smugly self satisfied..

Occasionally you will see karma like examples of ne'er do wells getting their just desserts. While these may look like Karma they are actually just serendipitous happenstance.

I'll explain my most recent:

My boyfriend brought home a dying puppy, 12 weeks old. She was beaten, starved, and unloved. He just couldn't bare to leave her at the owners house when he left. He told the person that he would take the dog off of his hands. The owner refused. He insisted that there was nothing wrong with her and she was going to make a fine fighting dog. So my boyfriend offered him money for the puppy. How quickly the owners demeanor changed. He offered the guy $50 and he gladly handed over the dog. Now my boyfriend and I already had a puppy and really couldn't afford the vet bills ect for another one. But the moment I saw her my heart melted. She had huge bald patches on her due to a disease she caught and from being malnourished, ant bites all over her, and just the saddest look in her eyes. From the first time she looked me in the eyes I knew that we had to do something to save her. We took money out of our savings and took her to the vet. We got her the medication that she needed, but the vet wasn't sure if it was too late or not. Many days and nights I just sat with her. Hand feeding her and showing her love. I was hesitate to name her due to the fear that she wouldn't make it. One trip to the vet a week later they informed me that she was improving. She had gained a few pounds and the medicine seemed to be working. One of the techs said to me, "She is so lucky to have you." My response to this was, "No, we are lucky to have her." At that point I knew what we were to name her. We named her Karma. I am glad to say that she made it through her horrible ordeal and is a healthy 5 month old puppy. She has brought nothing but love, joy, and happiness to our family. That right there shows the power of karma. When doing things unselfishly and with love, it will come back to you ten fold.

A British SAS General was always going on about the benefits of jogging for fitness and readiness. So he demanded that all in the British Army have tighter standards and do more jogging and cardio exercizes.

The very next day after making us stand in formation for an hour listening to a speech from the bloody wanker about the health benefits of jogging, the bloody bastard died of a heart attack while jogging.

Some say that was coincidence or an ironic fate. Others something more ominous. But I say "'Twas Karma that got him."

Hee hee, serves him right. All that suffering he inflicted on the boys of Her Bloody Majesty's 3rd Artillery Division came back on him.

When I heard about it on the telly, I almost soiled meself.

It does exist.

For the purposes of this forum, the following example is my favorite:

I worked at a large chain bookstore in Philadelphia for quite some time. This absolutely dreadful girl named Sara was our assistant manager--mean to everyone, no fun at all, just totally did not fit in with what was otherwise a great place to work. On the day Sara resigned from her job, a giant double rainbow appeared in the sky directly above the store. All the employees stood there cheering. It was great.

I don't believe Karma actually exists, but I choose to live as if it did. Good guys don't always win, and some horrible people never get what's coming to them. Oh well; I still try to be one of the good guys.

what i have right now is the result from what i do in the past, that is the good example existence of the concept of karma...

I'm Christian so I don't support the idea of Karma - here's why.....

Karma is a theological concept found in the Buddhist and Hindu religions. It is the idea that how one lives one’s life will determine the quality of life one will have when one is reincarnated. In other words, if one is unselfish, kind, and holy during their lifetime, one will be rewarded by being reincarnated (reborn into a new earthly body) into a pleasant life. However, if one lives a life of selfishness and evil, one will be reincarnated into a less than pleasant lifestyle. In other words, we reap in the next life what we sow in this one. Karma is based on the theological belief in reincarnation. The Bible does not agree with the idea of reincarnation, so therefore, it does not support the idea of karma.

Hebrews 9:27 states, “Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment…” This Bible verse makes clear two important points which, for Christians, negate the possibility of reincarnation and karma. First, it states that we are “destined to die once,” meaning that humans are only born once and only die once. There is no endless cycle of life and death and rebirth that is inherent in the reincarnation theory. Second, it states that after death we face judgment, meaning that there is no second chance, like there is in reincarnation and karma, to live a better life. You get one shot at life and living it according to God’s plan, and that’s it.

The Bible talks a lot about reaping and sowing. Job 4:8 says, “As I have observed, those who plow evil and those who sow trouble reap it.” Psalm 126:5 says, “Those who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy.” And Luke 12:24 says, “Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds!”

In each of these instances, as well as all the other references to reaping and sowing, the act of receiving the rewards of one’s actions takes place in this life, not in some future life. It is a present-day activity and the references make it clear that the fruit one reaps will be commensurate with the actions one has performed. In addition, the actions or sowing one performs in this life will affect one’s reward or punishment in the afterlife.

This afterlife is not a rebirth or a reincarnation into another body here on earth. It is either eternal suffering in hell (Matthew 25:46) or eternal life in Heaven with Jesus, who died so that we might live eternally with Him. This should be the focus of our life on earth. The Apostle Paul wrote in Galatians 6:8-9, “The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”

Finally, we must always remember that it was Jesus whose death on the cross resulted in the reaping of eternal life for us, and that it is faith in Jesus that will gain for us this eternal life. Ephesians 2:8-9 tells us, "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast." Therefore, we see that the concept of reincarnation and karma is incompatible with what the Bible teaches about life, death, and the sowing and reaping of eternal life.

The concept of Karma does not exsist and therefore I do not have any personal experience with it nor does ANYONE else.

Hangover.

This one time, I purged myself of all karma and acheived nirvana.