[gmku]

Well, yes and no. I was lay-ordained in Zen Budhism which holds a much more pragmatic outlook on karma--it looks at how what you do now affects your life now and in the rest of your earthly existence as well as how it affects the rest of the "real" world and other people. I know the afterlife is a deeper concern in other forms of Budhism and in Hinuism but not in Zen.