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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a passage of ancient

wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom every day life.

Each one of these passages is based on the 2000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of

history's greatest men and women.

For more, you can visit us at DailyStoic.com.

This is what karma looks like.

There is a simple proposition at the heart of classical Christianity.

If you are a good person and do good works on earth, when you die, you will enter the Kingdom

of Heaven and know the full bounty of God's unending love.

But if you are a bad person on earth, and you sin without repenting, when you die, you'll

end up in hell for all eternity.

In many Eastern religions, like Hinduism and Buddhism, that duality is baked into the

singular notion of karma.

Good intentions and good deeds will be repaid in the next life with great kindness.

That intent and bad deeds will be repaid in the next life with great severity.

The Stoics take a different approach.

They don't say that cheating or lying or murdering should be avoided out of fear of future

punishments at the hands of God.

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