Karma - A question

So much has passed, and so much is yet to happen.Many times, I sit and think:

Is this fair?

Do I deserve this?

Does he deserve that?

Why am I not getting this… and why did she get that?

Most people give me one answer:“Oh, it’s their karma.”“Oh, it’s your karma.”

And I’m like—what is this karma? How real is it? Is it even fair?

Because honestly… I don’t see that person suffering for the things they did.

Who has seen karma?

Who lives to see who is being served what, and what price anyone truly paid?

And does it really even matter in the end?

We're all just dealing with what we get, regardless.

I’ve been reading a lot about it lately. Some things make sense. Some things still don’t.

They say karma is a science. It’s about going through what you create—In each life, one after another, until we’ve paid all our debts.

You may know it or not. You may understand it or not. But it will happen, nonetheless.

Maybe there are three kinds of karma:

One we create consciously.

One we create subconsciously.

And one that’s beyond us—maybe from past lives, or something deeper we can’t grasp.

Sometimes, I wonder…Maybe it's something we tell ourselves to feel better. To feel hope. To give someone else hope.

A full circle?

But really—who sees karma?

Is karma something you experience in the long term.

Is it something you feel in moments—Instantaneously. When your intention aligns—or misaligns—with action.

Osho once said: “Karma is not a law. It is hope.”

Religion tells us—karma is not a rule, but spiritual guidance.

Buddha said something that stays with me:

“We are the heirs of our own actions.”

Just like water finds its level, karma finds its effect. Not as punishment or reward, but as a natural sequence.

Not moral. Just movement.

In the Anguttara Nikaya, Buddha says:

“I declare, O Bhikkhus, that volition is karma.Having willed, one acts—by body, speech, and thought.”

Volition (will or cetana) is the doer. Feeling (vedana) is the reaper.

Apart from these—there is no “one” to sow, and no “one” to reap. Just cause and effect. Just energy moving. Just the storm… and each raindrop finding its path.

They say ignorance (avijja) —not knowing things as they truly are—is the root of karma.

So then I ask again: Who is the doer? Who feels the effect?

The good thing is…They say you can change your karma. That helps I guess!!

Maybe karma isn’t a system of punishment and reward.Maybe it’s not about what’s “fair.”

Maybe it’s simply an invitation to be conscious. To act with awareness. To shift—From reacting to creating.

And maybe, just maybe…That shift is the karma we’ve been waiting for.