@tcmsecretuseid wrote:Karma and causality Lotus symbolically represents karma in many Asian traditions. A blooming lotus flower is one of the few flowers that simultaneously carries seeds inside itself while it blooms. Seed is symbolically seen as cause, the flower effect. Lotus is also considered as a reminder that one can grow, share good karma and remain unstained even in muddy circumstances.[23] A common theme to theories of karma is its principle of causality.[17] One of the earliest association of karma to causality occurs in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad of Hinduism. For example, at 4.4.5-6, it states: Now as a man is like this or like that, according as he acts and according as he behaves, so will he be; a man of good acts will become good, a man of bad acts, bad; he becomes pure by pure deeds, bad by bad deeds; And here they say that a person consists of desires, and as is his desire, so is his will; and as is his will, so is his deed; and whatever deed he does, that he will reap. โBrihadaranyaka Upanishad, 7th Century BC[24][25]
Above, cause and effect are mentioned. Further reading leads to the theory that every action has a consequence. It also seems to be talking about the present, more than the future lives.
The Law of Karma.... can also be called the Law of Cause and Effect..... very Newtonian.....
Except one is a religious belief or concept , one is a concept or theory and one is a scientific Law.
