Do you believe in Karma?

No.

And I don't believe your story, either.

Karma is getting what you deserve by definition. Getting one's legs crushed is not an apt punishment for choosing the apparently wrong guy, esp since you are describing yourself as a nice guy when that might not be true. But no, I don't believe in karma. Nice people get treated by others in the manner that suggests other people can trust them, so good things happen. People also learn to avoid untrustworthy people. It's socially-driven, not some grand design of the universe. Bad things do happen to good people, and good things do happen to bad people.

As a Buddhist, yes, it comes with the territory.

However one does not get one's legs crushed for being shallow. Cause and effect is eternal, that probably came from a previous existence. To rise above our karma we need to manifest our enlightened qualities.

Sort of; moral behaviour is good for all of us because we all benefit from living in a society where people are moral. I don't think good things will happen to me as a direct consequence of my positive actions.

Yes I do.

In 1980, a woman, Catherine, was being hypnotized by psychiatrist Dr Brian Weiss as a solution to her uncontrollable anxiety and nightmares. Unexpectedly, while under hypnosis, Catherine began to narrate events from a previous lifetime and convey messages from the "in between lives" state. These are some of the messages she relayed while under hypnosis:

“There are different levels of learning, and we must learn some of them in the flesh. We must feel the pain. When you're in physical state in the flesh, you can feel pain; you can hurt. In spirit form you do not feel pain; there is only happiness, a sense of well-being.”

"We all must learn certain attitudes while we're in physical state. Charity, hope, faith, love - we must all know these things and know them well."

"OUR TASK IS TO LEARN, TO BECOME GOD-LIKE THROUGH KNOWLEDGE. We know so little. By knowledge we approach God, and then we can rest. Then we come back to teach and help others."

"We must share our knowledge with other people. “You should check your vices while on earth. If you do not, you carry them over with you to another life. Only we can rid ourselves of the bad habits that we accumulate when we are in a physical state. If you choose to fight and not to rid yourself, then you will carry them over into another life. Only when you decide that you are strong enough to master the external problems, then you will no longer have them in your next life. "

"You develop through relationships. There are some with higher powers who have come back with more knowledge. They will seek out those who need the development and help them."

“We choose when we will come into our physical state and when we will leave. We know when we have accomplished what we were sent down here to accomplish”

“There is a plane of awareness and a plane of transition. We come from one life, and, if the lessons are completed, we move on to another dimension, another life. We must understand fully. If we do not, we are not allowed to pass on ... we must repeat because we do not learn. We must experience from all sides. We must know the side of wanting, but also to give.”

"We have lessons to learn each one of us. They must be learned one at a time in order. Only then can we know what the next person needs, what he or she lacks or what we lack, to make us whole."

"We have no right to abruptly halt peoples' lives before they have lived out their karma. They will suffer greater retribution if we let them live. When they die and go to the next dimension, they will suffer there. They will be left in a very restless state and they will be sent back, but their lives will be very hard. They will have to make up to those people that they hurt for the injustices that they did against them.”

"People of the religious orders have come closer than any of us have because they've given up so much without asking for anything in return. The rest of us continue to ask for rewards - rewards and justifications for our behavior when there are no rewards, rewards that we want. The reward is in doing, but doing without expecting anything - doing unselfishly."

"Patience and timing - everything comes when it must come. A life cannot be rushed, cannot be worked on a schedule as so many people want it to be. We must accept what comes to us at a given time, and not ask for more. But life is endless, so we never die; we were never really born. We just pass through different phases. There is no end. Humans have many dimensions. But time is not as we see time, but rather in lessons that are learned."

Many Lives Many Masters - Dr Brian Weiss

A graduate of Columbia University and Yale Medical School, Brian L. Weiss M.D. is Chairman Emeritus of Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami.

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