I was working to this post for some time, but recent media coverage of comments by Sharon Stone prompted me to put fingers to keyboard. 

Now, let me start by making a point, I’m not taking a pop at her, enough people have already done that and it’s not really served any purpose.  She made some points that I agree with:

“It was a big lesson to me that sometimes you have to learn to put your head down and be of service even to people who aren’t nice to you.”

As a servicedesk analyst I can vouch for the above from personal experience and from the experience of my colleagues past and present.  I will be going a little deeper into my insights from my POV as a headset jockey in a future post.  Also, I agree with her following sentiment:

“I’m not happy about the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans because I don’t think anyone should be unkind to anyone else.”  

So, what are my views on Karma?  I view it in a secular manner, not as a supernatural phenomenon.  It comes down to simple cause and effect and is in part psychological conditioning, or to quote Marcus Aurelius:

 ”Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as, for example: Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible.”

Essentially, you create you own Karma by your attitudes, which create your actions, the results of which colour your attitudes in a continuous feedback cycle.  You don’t really need past or future lives for Karmic Law to be valid, the above quote makes it perfectly clear to me, the consequences of your Karma will be played out in the moment with every thought and action.