Karma, or the law of cause and effect, is perhaps one of the best-known concepts from the Buddhist repertoire, but it’s also one of the most misunderstood. The general take on Karma is of self-created retribution—reaping all the things we have sown in life. There’s also the idea that as individuals and as a group, we have something of a ‘karmic cache’, whereby we are bound to a cycle of life and death, living in suffering until we have reaped all that we have collectively sown.

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