On Thursdays we’ll be asking everyone to define a Buddhist term in 140 characters or less on Twitter. Our first, “karma,” brought in many answers, all good, but, for clarity, cleverness and concision’s sake, we chose the following:

“If what you do and who you are don’t match now, they will, for better or worse.”

It was submitted by Hokai Sobol, in Croatia, and he’s won a free subscription to Tricycle.

Visit us on Twitter next Thursday take a stab at it!

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