Good & Bad Are Two Faces of One Coin

Karma in Hinduism and Buddhism really just means “causality.” If you put your hand on a hot stove, you’ll get burned. You only “earned” the burn in the sense that you caused it. It happened. The key is to open your eyes and wake up to the fact that hot stoves burn, and adjust your behavior to keep your hands off them. If you accidentally do it again, it’s not divine punishment — it was just karma, cause and effect. It just happened, and now you can forgive yourself.