Does Karma exist at the level of analysis of the ego?

[lmfao]

You could say that that karma states that you get what you yourself do. We could say that from the non-dual view of things karma is true since everything that happens to you is what you do, since you are everything/reality/god. 

But, I want to look at the use of the word karma in the more typical sense. Where the word "you" is just referencing the ego. Do you think karma then exists? Is there a mechanism in the universe called karma which is a mechanism like gravity for example? (obviously one of them is more observable and "scientific" than the other). 

And how does this mechanism called karma then work? Is it based upon simple "good" and "bad"? If I commit some heinous crime then I get punished for it by society. But societies treatment of me after I commit a crime seems irrelevant to the existence of karma as an actual law of the universe since of if I was in a different society (or even in no society) I would not be punished for the crime. So all in all, im tempted to just think Karma as a law of the universe from the perspective of the ego is false. 

 

[FoxFoxFox]

To the persona or ego Karma certainly exists, and it's a perfectly tangible thing. The mechanics of Karma cannot be understood by the ego in any realistic way because that would be the part trying to understand the whole.

[AlwaysBeNice]

7 hours ago, lmfao said:

And how does this mechanism called karma then work? Is it based upon simple "good" and "bad"? If I commit some heinous crime then I get punished for it by society. But societies treatment of me after I commit a crime seems irrelevant to the existence of karma as an actual law of the universe since of if I was in a different society (or even in no society) I would not be punished for the crime. So all in all, im tempted to just think Karma as a law of the universe from the perspective of the ego is false. 

Good question.

Well, you would still carry the memory of the crime, probably in a feeling of guilt, especially if hadn't tried to make up for it, other people can possibly see or sense that.

But acting like that in the first place, doing bad crimes, is sign you are operating out dysfunctional ego, which results in disharmony anyways, and is already a state of pain.

[Inliytened1]

Yes Karma only exists as form or imagination