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Have a run down on karma
"The theory of karma is of signal importance in buddhist thought but is easily misrepresented. Literally, karma means 'action' and refers to the intentional acts of sentient beings. Such acts may be physical, verbal or mental - even just thoughts or feelings - all of which have impacts upon the psyche of an individual, no matter how minute. Intentions results in acts, which result in effects that condition the mind towards certain traits of propensities, all of which may give rise to further intentions and actions. The entire process is seen as an endless self-perpetuating dynamic. The chain reaction of interlocking causes and effects operates not only in individuals but also for groups and societies, not just in one lifetime but across many lifetimes. When we use the term 'karma' we may refer both to specific and individual acts and to the whole principle of such causation. In buddhism, ***this karmic causality is seen as a fundamental natural process and not as any kind of divine mechanism or working out of a preordained design. Apart from the karma of individual sentient beings, whether it is collective of personal, it is entirely erroneous to think of karma as some transcendental unitary entity that acts like a god in a theistic system or a determinist law by which a person's life is fated.*** From the scientific view, the theory of karma may be a metaphysical assumption - but is no more so than the assumption that all of life is material and originated out of pure chance." The Dalai Lama.