Karma Chameleon

While I don't profess to be an authority on Buddhism or its teachings, I still have a few thoughts on the topic. Not a day goes by when I don't see someone professing on Facebook or on TV that if something bad has happened to someone through the intentional or unintentional actions of someone else that "karma's gonna get them." Or better yet "karma is a bitch." Well I have to disagree. In the basic principals of Karma, intent is the key as to whether or not this perceived wrongdoer will succumb to the same ill fate they have caused for the victim. According to Buddha.net  

'Generally speaking, all good and bad action constitutes Karma. In its ultimate sense Karma means all moral and immoral volition. Involuntary, unintentional or unconscious actions, though technically deeds, do not constitute Karma, because volition, the most important factor in determining Karma, is absent.'

So, to  anyone that believes that the person their partner cheated on them with will fall prey to karmic retribution. They probably won't. You should just get on with your life and feel relief that the person who hurt you is someone else's problem now. 

The basic principals of Karma are simple- you reap what you sow. If you do good things, no doubt good things will happen to you. It may take awhile, but relax and continue to live your life well and you will reap the rewards of being a good person. If you waste energy on negative thought and wishing someone else ill will because they have done something to you, then you are not living your life well. You are living it in the past with a vengeful mind. If you keep perpetuating the negative, no positive will come your way. Simple.

I believe that karma neither rewards nor punishes it just exists to keep you on the path you are on. Karma is not a threat, it is as a promise. Live well and think of others and the same will be done to you. Live poorly and be nasty to others the same will be done to you. Karma is not something to be thrown in someone Else's face, as you have no control over someone else's karma.  

The next time someone is bad to you try forgiving them and moving on. Karma's gonna get you.