KARMA OR ETHICS?
KARMA OR ETHICS? Since I started reading books on Buddhism, I was attracted to the concept of karma because of the mystery it emanates. As per the Merriam Webster dictionary, karma has the following meaning: “The force generated by a person's actions held in Hinduism and Buddhism to perpetuate transmigration and in its ethical consequences to determine the nature of the person's next existence”. In other words, the way we behave in our current life will determine what kind of life we will live in our next life, as well the number of lives we will need to live to attain Nirvana, Nirvana being the end of our spiritual journey. What happens after Nirvana, we don’t know. The idea of karma as a vehicle to deserve a life of peace and serenity always called my attention; it seemed a perfectly natural reward for good behavior. After all, since childhood I was told that being good means getting a reward. However, as years went by and I became savvier about the meaning of existence, I r...