The logic of Karma

[Assunta Napoleone]

Many spiritual believes, accept the concept of karma. My question is:
If I am an instrument of someone's karma, do I have to come back to earth and pay for being used for such endeavor? So for example, say I kill someone, then I come back to get killed and pay off that debt, does the person who does the killing this time has to come back and pay off that action? and if so, when does it stop?
Like the christian Judah; if it werent for him there would be no christianity, so is he a bad guy?

[Wyndra]

I did not make that comment below i deleted it right now. My daughter said that people can get access to your password sometimes and make comments that way. Wondering about it all....

[Wyndra]

Yes and i love that!

[Lilly DelValle]

Getting back to "The logic of Karma". There is an online text titled, "No Time for Karma." Step off the Wheel of Pain and struggle by Paxton Robey with Lone Jensen You can download the PDF version of it from Robey's website. http://www.notimeforkarma.com. It's an interesting read and helps to bring light to the concept of Karma.

Personal, I believe we play all roles through out our lives to experience things from different points of view. In addition, we will continue to experience until we are able to release the pain, or expectation and grow from the experience (referring to spiritual growth.) I do not believe it is a punishment as much as experiencing different aspects of the a situation or event. It is up to us to look deeper into our situations and acknowledge the lesson as we can release the cosmic tie.

[Alendar]

An interesting question. I picture a wheel of killing and being killed spinning forever. Or those assembly line movies they always played on PBS of the coke bottles being filled. When life repeats it looks foolish. For one to see the foolishness, they have to step back, out of the frame of any specific personal experience and look at a collection of lives.

Each of these deaths is real, my choice to kill is distinctly personal (that sounds funny), and the debt of the killing is theoretically paid in the next life. My feeling is that wrongs can't be righted by another wrong, especially if there is no connection. It's not like some movie where the connection between crime and punishment is laid out clearly.

But the movie philosophy is kind of neat. A crime is committed, a punishment is dealt: The balance is established. There is closure. Not real? Is it any more realistic to picture a wheel of constant debt creation with no resolution? If the next guy doesn't kill you, then the debt is unpaid and there is no balance, and yet the obvious better course for this guy is not to be killing anyone.