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**gluckmeea** · 06-07-2010, 11:31 PM

I think that karma can apply within one lifetime and still turn into victim-blaming. There are lots and lots of people who find comfort in the notion that people, on some level, brought their suffering on themselves through their own actions.

The Buddhist doctrine that suffering is from attachment is something I can handle, because it's harder to turn that into victim-blaming. However, saying that hardship is always a result of some specific action or attitude on the part of the person (for instance, saying that what's gone around is coming around) seems to negate the very idea of injustice.

You know what I mean?

06-07-2010, 11:31 PM	#5
gluckmeea Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 498 Senior Member	I think that karma can apply within one lifetime and still turn into victim-blaming. There are lots and lots of people who find comfort in the notion that people, on some level, brought their suffering on themselves through their own actions. The Buddhist doctrine that suffering is from attachment is something I can handle, because it's harder to turn that into victim-blaming. However, saying that hardship is always a result of some specific action or attitude on the part of the person (for instance, saying that what's gone around is coming around) seems to negate the very idea of injustice. You know what I mean?
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