Karma

I prefer to work on this one - the opposite of schadenfreude - mudita. Mudita is word from Sanskrit and Pali that has no counterpart in English. It means sympathetic or unselfish joy, or joy in the good fortune of others.

corncob certain circumstances mean you can't "walk away and get on with your life" There are ratbags that you need to keep contact with sadly.
I agree with. roses karma is abstract it's just satisfying to think it will happen to some.

Karma (as such) doesn't exist, just good things/bad things that happen all the time to everybody (good or bad people and even those somewhere in the middle.)

I have experienced so much grief and trauma that I feel I must have been a really unpleasant person in a past life. I have known some horrible people who have nothing but good fortune and continue to do so. Funnily enough, yesterday a friend told me that karma will get my ex eventually (he left me because I have chronic health) and I would like to believe it

Karma is more a Buddhist concept than a Hindu one (many Hindus don't accept the concept at all and those who do feel it is of secondary importance) and Buddhism is more of a philosophy than a religion, being more akin to humanism - our duty in life is to do as we would have done to us and try to become as close to the "ideal" person as we can. As a Wiccan I blieve whole-heartedly in the law of 3-fold return - it may not happen in this life, but sooner or later our thoughts, words and deeds, whether for good or evil, will rebound on us.

Oops should have said I would.

Oh how I hope and pray, a would certainly enjoy Karma happening to a particular woman!!!

Absolutely...

Me too phoenix I am always saying to DH 'am I a bad person or do you think I did something bad in a past life?' He just says 'luck of the draw dear'.

Revenge is a dish that is BEST eaten cold. If you do good, do someone a favour etc my Mum used to say "bread cast upon the water".

I always tell my family not to get angry as every dog has it's day I even have a pillow with this embroidered on. Some days are a long time coming but provide unexpected joy as you never know when it will happen just move on in the belief it will happen

Cant say I have.Yes some people have been nasty to me in my life,I have just walked away and lost all contact,so have no idea what happened to them.I say do not let revenge eat you up,move on.

But what of good people who have bad events happen?

Revenge is a dish that is eaten cold!

"what goes around, comes around" is something I can always remember being said in our family (Yorkshire born & bred).

Yes it gives me great pleasure when it happens - my DD, after her Dad died was meant to receive some of his collection of Beswick Cattle & Sheep (which I started for him as presents) as were her three half-sisters & half-brother. Instead eldest half-sister took all of them. Some years later she lost her home in a fire & all their possessions (she was likely to blame by drying clothes too close to a fire). I'm afraid we couldn't feel sorry for her although we did feel sorry for her husband & children

Yes I do.

I think Karma also means good things happening to people who do good things. I'd like to think so anyway.

I am waiting for karma to visit someone at the moment. Someone who wasn't very nice to my DH when he was going through gruelling treatment for cancer. Yes, possibly karma is revenge but I can't help how I feel.

And Annieshere, when good things happen to bad people?

So karma just means we want revenge

I wonder what revenge we could wish on dog owners who leave a neat plastic bag of poo in the middle of the pavement - maybe that they help someone else's to biodegrade by moving it round on the bottom of their own shoe

Don't like myself for it but find myself wishing revenge on people who are unkind to me or my family and not feeling too sorry when something happens to them!!

Yes! If someone has been horrible to me or mine, I am guilty of wishing them pay back. I agree that sometimes it takes to long to happen and also I don't like myself for my unkind thoughts towards these people.

Anneishere and Anniebach - yes, you are so right, thank you.

What goes around comes around. Karma by any other name. I always hope it will happen