Karma As We See It

Throughout Marie de France's lei, we encounter an overall moral clearly stated in the last line of the second last stanza of her Equitan, "Can find here a moral for any season:He who seeks to harm his neighborWill be the victim of his own labor". By sitting and refelcting upon this, I have come to the conclusion that it means simply what we still feel today. Those who wish evil or bad things upon other people, will only receive bad things onto them in the future. Today we use the term "karma" lightly in that if someone were to say something snarky to someone and then spill their drink all over them, we would typically say "that's karma" to whomever it happened to. As we see in her lei, they belived in karma then too. Whatever you put in, is what you get out. You put in evil, it will only come back around to haunt you.