Is karma real?

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Heres my problem:
Any act or event in the present moment is just one of numberless probable acts or events.

Any reaction to a present event on our parts, is similarly part of a network of probable reactions.

(and now for karma)
The 'past', existed (exists!) in exactly the same way. So the gist of history is that it contained all probable actions and reactions at any given point in time, just like our present. Even in the quantum world of physics, certain realities only 'collapse' into a single state if they are measured, and even then its not permanent. The natural mental state for people (and subatomic particles) is non-collapsed.

So how can karma be real ?
 
Karma isn't realy, it is mearly the inbetween of good luck, and bad luck.

However, Sod's Law exists and is proven. Fact.
 
Yes, Sod's Law does indeed exist. I also believe in Karma as more than once someone has 'upset' me and instead of dealing with it in a 'going to prison' type way, I've left it alone and invariably something has occurred which makes me say "Ha!" and feel generally better :)
 
Is karma real, in the sense of a tally of actions that is carried through life and determines your state of reincarnation? Or in the sense that there is a natural or supernatural force that influences actions on us based on our own actions?

No.

What about in the sense of using it as a shorthand way of saying “If you mostly do good things, people will mostly be kind back to you”?

Sure. That should be obvious to anyone.
 
Do you really think it could be real with all these plagues in the world? Hunger, poverty, war. All those who suffer from them didn't do anything wrong, I want to believe. Yet they get the worst from Pandora's Box.
 
Except history doesn't contain all probable actions and reactions, only those that actually happened. John Wilkes Booth missing his shot is a probable event of that time, yet it's not part of history. Don't get into parallel universes where each binary selection for each event is played out in one or the other and they go forward from there. How would that affect us once it branched off anyway?

Karma is partially defined on Wikipedia as "the effects of all deeds actively create past, present, and future experiences." Don't read that to mean that current or future deeds affect the past. It just means that an experience you had in the past was created by an action in the further past. It's just a philosophy of cause and effect which makes the individual responsible for himself. Cause is always before effect. At least in the context discussed as karma.

In the West, we use to mean that those who live right can expect good things, those who don't can expect trouble. Basically a morality teaching. We also talk of people having "good" karma or "bad" karma, which really doesn't exist. There is only karma.

In a less serious note, I can picture someone in front of their shrine of Buddha with a physics textbook on the floor, exclaiming "Oh my God!" in confusion. :)
 

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