“Is there Chance? No. There is karma. Karma causes all things to happen. There is only one thing karma cannot decide, and that is how far you will evolve in this lifetime.” HappensScienceCausesChanceOne ThingBuddhismAll ThingsLifetimeKarmaEvolve Author:Frederick Lenz
“Dependent Origination is the teaching (that life) is not the mere play of blind chance, but has an existence that is dependent upon conditions. That, precisely with the removal of these conditions, those things that have arisen in dependence upon them-thus also all suffering-must perforce disappear and cease to be.” PlayLife IsSufferingChanceExistenceTeachingConditionsBlindMereDisappearKarmaCeaseDependentDependenceRemoval Author:Gautama Buddha
“I had never been able to believe that God would give us poor frail humans only one chance at making it -- that we would be assigned to some kind of hell because we failed during one experience of mortal life. ... So the concepts of karma and reincarnation made logical sense to me.” GivingBelieveHumansKindMadeWould BeAbleChancePoorHellConceptsKarmaMortalsLogicalReincarnationFrailOne Chance Author:Jane Goodall
“Debts that must be paid ... that sums up the concept of karma. But I would add that karma is not a burden that you have to carry. It is also an opportunity to learn, a chance to practice love and forgiveness, a chance to learn lessons that are valuable to us. Karma offers us the chance to wipe our dirty slate clean, to erase the wrong doings of the past.” PastOpportunityChancePracticeLessonsOffersConceptsPaidAddCleanBurdenValuableDebtKarmaDirtyWipeEraseSlateDoingsLearning LessonsOpportunities To LearnLove And ForgivenessWrong Doings Author:Dada Vaswani
“The past situation has just occurred and the future situation has not yet manifested itself so there is a gap between the two. This is basically the bardo (life between life) experience. [This is the place where your life is reviewed - where you get another chance to let life teach you and end the cycle of pain. -EM]” TwoEndsPainPastLife IsChanceSituationTeachKarmaEmsCyclesGapsLife ExperienceAnother ChanceLife Teaches Author:Chogyam Trungpa