Hi,
I believe in these three principles:
Impermenance
Selflessness
interdepencency
The first is the fact that nothing stays still, the entire universe is in constant flux it is a rithing sea of particles of which we are part, they may seem to stand still as we view them but they are moving through time and so are moving and changing.
The second is the fact that we are not ourselves, independent of the rest of the universe, those thoughts, memories and opinions we have that shape our minds, bodies and the world around us are just our responses to our experiences of the universe around us, so we are a product of all of the events that have happened in the universe before this present moment.
The third is the fact that every thought and then action we make contributes to the production of the rest of the universe after this present moment.
So my take on Karma is that the universe creates us and we then help create it and this process is never ending and never rests.
So I try to stay mindful of my responses to events around me and try to give out what I percieve to be positive actions even to a negative event.
This will send out a wave of positivity from me and I hope it will bounce off things and come back to me as positive events.
I can only try to show others by my example and hope they learn to respond in the same way because some choose to respond negative to positive and negative events and this makes my job harder because I am having to absorb their negative event and respond to it in a positive way.
The other problem is the perception of positive and negative.
I might think catching bacterial disease is negative so I will take antibiotics to kill the bacteria and because I am cured I see this as a positive response but the bacteria doesnt see this as positive to it it is a negative event in its road to survival and so it mutates to become immune to that antibiotic.
And so it goes on !
So I can only work this process in a selfish way and allow others to do the same.
We are all stuck in this bubble together and when one person farts we can all smell it, but when one person laughs we can all laugh.
Trouble is some dont want to laugh and some like the smell of fart !
I am not a Buddhist and I dont believe in rebirth so I cant comment on their traditional Karma beliefs.