Hey, this is Leo, for actualized.org.

And in this video, I'm going to talk about what is karma. You harm yourself as dust thrown against the wind comes back to the thrower.

That is one of my favorite quotes from the Buddha and this quote gives us a really good hint and a clue as to what karma actually is.

Karma is a concept that comes to us from the East.

Really, it's popular in the Buddhist traditions.

It's also popular in the Indian Yogi traditions. So this dates back thousands

and thousands of years to really the dawn of civilization in the east. And Karm itself is a Sanskrit

word. I'm going to tell you what it means here in a second.

But before I do that, what I notice is that, I notice that people here in the West,

when they use this concept don't really understand the subtlety of it

and they use it in really ham-handed kind of way. So what I want to do here is I want to put

the nuance and the subtlety back in the concept of karma.

In the West, the way we use karma and the way we think about it is kind of like this.

We think of it as a universal law of justice, so that if somebody goes somebody goes for example and robs a bank

which we consider an evil act so they go rob a bank and then let's say the police

don't catch him and he gets away with it then then what we tend to think is that, well,

karma's going to get him in the end, and by that what we mean is that at some point later in

his life, eventually the laws of justice will kind of even themselves out just naturally

Because something bad will happen to that person somehow he deserves it now that he's going to get some other punishment for it. So maybe five

years later somebody will steal a car from him or maybe five years later something bad

will happen in some other aspect of his life and we'll say ha ha!

Karma got you because you did something evil in your past.

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