Karma Case Study

However, that fatalistic doctrine is not the Buddhist law of Karma.

According to Buddhism, there are five requests or techniques (niyama) which work in the physical and mental domains.

1. Utu Niyama - physical inorganic order, e.g. seasonal phenomena of winds and rains. The unerring order of seasons, characteristic seasonal changes and events, causes of winds and rains, nature of heat, etc., all belong to this group.

2. Bija Niyama - order of germs and seeds (physical organic order), e.g. rice produced from rice-seed, sugary taste from sugar-cane or honey, peculiar characteristics of certain fruits, etc. The scientific theory of cells and genes and the physical similarity of twins may be ascribed to this order.

3. Karma Niyama - order of act

Although she was never pregnant and had never gone through an abortion, she had given advice to people in favor of supporting abortion and also did an abortion surgery on a patient before. This led her to a cycle of bad Karma; her life was ruined. All the money she had was spent on healing her sickness, serious cases of headaches, backaches, and stomachaches, but she never knew what the cause of these weird symptoms were. She later finds out that the reason for her pain comes from her bad deeds, so she consulted the monk to have her problems solved. After the process, she recovered from the pain, when all the monk did was just giving Metta Pavana (love and kindness) to the spirits the nurse had harmed and convinced them to forgive her for her sins. So in this case, in order to deal with the Karma the nurse had caused, Monk Vachara chose to give Metta Pavana to the nemesis and ask for forgiveness to the nurse’s bad

As it is advancing, the general public’s attention moves from agricultural society into more like a modern technology-based society. This progression changes the way individuals used to think and believe. As in the more established era, individuals have confidence in what they cannot see, for instance, Gods, which is the reason why Theism was so popular in the past. However, numerous scientists had come up with various hypotheses that clarify what individuals cannot explain and those speculations have also influenced many religions in negative ways, leading to certain groups of people into believing that Karma is just a superstition. Thankfully, Buddhism is a religion that does not concern deity and deals with causes and reasons, which sounds reasonable to this generation of human enough to be taken into consideration. As a result, the world is not as chaos as it should be because people still have morality in their minds, knowing what kinds of actions are right and wrong. Buddhism deals with the truth of life, reasons why a series of events occur and results coming from one’s own action, just like a famous saying; as you sow, so shall you