Rode a cab last weekend going to Makati when the driver, about 65 years of age, starts to babble about KARMA. "... Alang karma, kasi kung meron, matagal nang patay ang mga nasa pulitika!!! At patay na din ako...
According to him, he was in the seminary for 3 years then left when he was 18, "pilyo kasi ako eh..." He got married in his mid-30's and and had two kids, but when he was 42, he stabbed a guy dead out of anger. He was sentenced for 20 years but behaved well enough to get parole. He was out after 5 years, 2 of which was in Muntinlupa while the remaining 3 were in Iwahig Penal Colony in Palawan. He's not afraid to die, and nothing really bad has ever happened to him or his family after he was released from jail.
He doesn't believe in karma...but I do.
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That's a different kind of karma, the one the taxi driver believes in. Karma affects what you will be in your next reincarnation, until you learn to be enlightened and be a bodhisatva. So the driver could be a cockroach in the next life while a good person could be reincarnated as a girl who would be a priestess. That's if you believe in reincarnation.
If he left the seminary, then he may still believe in hell, which is much worse than any cockroach body.
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