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MY PERFECT TEACHER
EXPLAINS
KARMA
| To be
successful in Feng Shui, to help many people, depends on
creating good
Karma (merit) in the past. For example, in both
primitive and well-developed countries around the world,
one can find people with little education who have
become extremely wealthy and successful in life. On the
other hand, there are people who have university
degrees, who have completed many years of education, but
who cannot find jobs, who are unemployed and unable to
attain material success in life. This clearly indicates
that for success, education is not enough. The ultimate
answer is to have collected merit, to have good
karma.
Those who have achieved success, even without much
education, have collected many merits in the past. Those
who are educated but unsuccessful have not collected
many merits in the past, have not accumulated sufficient
good karma.
To understand the details of karma more clearly, let
us examine the explanations of karma given in the
teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha. The following
explanation draws specifically from Buddha’s sutra
teachings, The Chapter of One who is Truthful and Sutra
of the Ten Bhumis.
Each complete negative action, such as the
ten non-virtuous actions of killing and so
forth, has four suffering results:
(1) the fully ripened result: rebirth in one of the suffering lower
realms (the hell, hungry ghost, or animal realms) where
one experiences far greater unimaginable suffering than
in the human realm.
(2) experiencing the result similar to the
cause: when one is
reborn in the future as a human, experiencing the
suffering result of the harmful action committed in the
past.
(3) the possessed result: the result that ripens as aspects of
your environment in the future when one is reborn as a
human.
(4) creating the result similar to the previous
cause: continuing to
commit the same action in the future, and continuing to
create the same negative karma over and over
again.
Similarly, each of the ten complete virtuous actions
has four happy results.
Here, we will examine the four specific results of
each of the ten virtuous actions.
The complete virtuous action of living in the
morality abstaining from killing has four happy
results:
( 1) the
fully ripened result: You will receive a good rebirth in the body of a
happy migrator being in the human or deva realms instead
of rebirth in the suffering lower realms.
(2) experiencing the result similar to the
previous cause: You
will have a long and healthy life.
(3) the
possessed result:
When reborn in the human realm, you will live in a
glorified place where food, drink, medicines, and crops
are very nutritious. Food and drink will be easy to
digest and will be the causes to be healthy and not
causes of illness. You will not experience an untimely
death.
(4) creating the result similar to the previous
cause of living in
the morality abstaining from killing: In future lives
you will again be able to practice Dharma and will
continue to practice the morality of abstaining from
killing. This is, therefore, a cause of being able to
stop harming others in this way in future lives.
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