Would you sell your soul?

Originally posted by juggerman
Hey Shaky, would you sell Karma? Idk if there is any legend or story about anything like that but say someone offered you money or service in exchange for some of your good Karma? Or bad Karma if you don't want to give up the good.

And if selling it is unethical, how about just giving it up? I would think you'd want as little bad Karma as possible right?

That's of course if you believe in two different types and not just one that builds and declines depending on your actions. Just throwing it out there.

I don't know, let me think about it.

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Originally posted by juggerman
Hey Shaky, would you sell Karma? Idk if there is any legend or story about anything like that but say someone offered you money or service in exchange for some of your good Karma? Or bad Karma if you don't want to give up the good.

And if selling it is unethical, how about just giving it up? I would think you'd want as little bad Karma as possible right?

That's of course if you believe in two different types and not just one that builds and declines depending on your actions. Just throwing it out there.

Okay, this is very complicated, so I will try to make it as simple as I can.

Bad Karma:

I would sell as much bad Karma as I can. However, I would not sell it for much, but I also wouldn’t give it away.

Good Karma:

If there was someone who was sick or hurt, I would give them some of my good Karma, but I would never sell it. I give my good Karma to my family and loved one all the time. Once a month I give some of my good Karma to the world for world peace. I am joined by all the other member of SGI around the world, and we give good Karma for world peace. It is called World Peace Prayer.

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
Okay, this is very complicated, so I will try to make it as simple as I can.

Bad Karma:

I would sell as much bad Karma as I can. However, I would not sell it for much, but I also wouldn’t give it away.

Good Karma:

If there was someone who was sick or hurt, I would give them some of my good Karma, but I would never sell it. I give my good Karma to my family and loved one all the time. Once a month I give some of my good Karma to the world for world peace. I am joined by all the other member of SGI around the world, and we give good Karma for world peace. It is called World Peace Prayer.

Thank you. Why wouldn't you give away your bad Karma? Would that invite more bad Karma?

To give away your good Karma you actually pray or is that just the name while you do something else entirely?

Originally posted by juggerman
Thank you. Why wouldn't you give away your bad Karma? Would that invite more bad Karma?

Yes.

Originally posted by juggerman
To give away your good Karma you actually pray or is that just the name while you do something else entirely?

We chant, recite two chapters of the Lotus Sutra and prey. This is called Gongyo.

http://www.sgilibrary.org/search_dict.php?id=899

Karma's a little be-yotch.

Originally posted by Bentley
It's not necessarily more accurate. The reason for me to care about rules is that unlike many other folktales, selling your soul obviously spans from a very mundane concept that is obviously human. Promises, pacts, I think it's understood that there is a lot of stupid ruling about them. Similar tales such as djinns granting wishes are also pretty picky when it comes to technicalities, because at least in the tale (and in our human legal world), these pacts have to be technical.

Depends how you define meaningless.
All supernatural supposition is based on these beings, from god to the devil, everything in between, thinking like we do.
Its sort of like attributing malevolent intent on a bear or wolf, big cat, thats stalking your village eating your animals and other people.
Its us trying to feel better by making sense if something that to us, doesnt.

If some...entity wanted something ethereal from us, there's really no way for us to know ANYthing for sure.