What Do We Need to Understand About the Law of Cause and Effect?
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What Do We Need to Understand About the Law of Cause and Effect?
“Chicken Farm” a painting by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III
Karma or the law of causation is not a universal principle in the
west, but it is becoming more well known. I became a Buddhist because I
could never understand how the Christian God would allow bad things to
happen to good people and vice versa. When I first heard of
reincarnation and know that what happens to you may be karmic
retribution from what you did in a past life, things began to make
sense. Jesus did teach that “as you sow, so shall you reap” but the
Christian religion no longer includes the possibility of reaping from
past lives as well as the present. One of the most important evil views
that must not be held is any doubt in the fact of karma and karmic
retribution. In the Buddhist understanding, you are responsible for
everything that happens to you. However, you can cultivate doing good
and stopping doing bad things and change your life. Our evil karma does
not go away, but we can build a wallof good karma to have the effect of blocking us from our deserved karmic retribution until we are better able to deal with it.
It does not matter whether you believe in karma or not. It is a basic
principle of the universe like gravity that cannot be denied. In
general, karma has four characteristics:
It is fixed; karmic results are greater than the cause; it is
infallible–it never errs; and once created, karma will not disappear of
its own accord.
Some people think that the law of cause and effect does not exist.
They think that there is no need to be afraid since there is no karmic
retribution. They think it is all right to do bad things as long as
nobody finds out. In short, to them there is no such thing as karmic
retribution. Remember, regarding the law of cause and effect as
imaginary and not real is an evil view.
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