Buddha crossing a predestined person: Dharma and wisdom in life

Chapter 35 Cultivate the mind of cause and effect with the Buddha's mind - the karma of the past life, the retribution of the present life (1)
All karma must have karma
What Buddhism usually talks about when there is a cause, there must be an effect, and what is good will be rewarded with good, etc. In fact, it does not mean that a certain cause must have an effect, and there is no more and no less, but that the energy between cause and effect is eternal. Invariable, that is, the total cause of your life will not disappear in the universe, and it will not increase or decrease. Although there is a phenomenon that material causes result in spiritual results, although there is a decline in entropy, there is always Because energy will never decrease.Because of this, the Buddha said with certainty that all karmic causes must have karmic results.If you plant a cause, there must be retribution.

A father who did all kinds of bad things lived to be 90 years old before he died.He has done a lot of evil in his life, and he has done countless evil causes to society and his family. Then these evil causes he sowed hardly repay himself, so where did they go?

Maybe it's the next generation, maybe it's the next generation, maybe it's transformed into other forms of existence in the universe, but this kind of evil hasn't really completely disappeared.For example, Engels said that every time human beings conquer nature, it seems that human beings have won, but in fact, for any behavior that goes against the sky, God punishes human beings in another form, such as space junk, ozone hole, acid rain, and climate change. Deterioration, soil desertification, loss of sufficient nutrients for crops, toxic air, etc., there is no such thing as a perverse application that has not received due rewards and retribution.

The word cause and effect is something that all saints and mortals cannot escape from the world.Cause and effect are divided into two categories.All the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas cultivate the cause to prove the fruit, cultivate the pure cause, cultivate the Bodhisattva behavior, and arouse the bodhicitta, so what they prove is the fruit of the Buddha and Bodhisattva, and what they get is a pure fruit; but what we all create is the cause of pollution, which results in What is the fruit of pollution.

Buddhism believes that the root cause of human suffering and social chaos lies in ignorance.And the most fundamental problem in ignorance is ignorance of cause and effect, disbelief in cause and effect, not following the law of cause and effect to do good deeds and accumulate virtue, and to act in accordance with the law.

Let's think about it carefully, the various problems we are facing now, such as the destruction of the ecological environment, the desertification of the land, the abnormal climate, the social turmoil, the poor people's hearts, the surge of mental patients, the frequent occurrence of suicides, the horror The rampant activities, the continuous regional conflicts, the terror of nuclear war, etc., which one has nothing to do with the ignorance of cause and effect?It's all about cause and effect, and we haven't fully experienced it, which has resulted in our current extremely passive and helpless reality.

For example, when a sandstorm comes, what can we do?Just hide in the house and not come out.It’s okay to hide in the house and not come out. There are cracks in the windows and doors, and it will still attack.How did it come about?We look for the reason, it is easy to find.Another example is environmental pollution. When people walk on the street, they always feel that this place is not clean, there is garbage, this is uncivilized, and that is immoral. How did these come about?The reason can also be found.There are not only other people's reasons, but also your own reasons.We ourselves feel that this environment is extremely dirty, and we are also one of the makers of this dirty environment.

Therefore, cause and effect is not only a common phenomenon in the existence of all things, but also the root cause of whether our body and mind are clean and the environment is purified.

Here, Buddhism talks about two things, one is called positive report, and the other is called according to report.In our current words, positive results seem to be the small environment of each of us, which is our physical and mental world; dependent results are the external material world on which we depend.These two worlds, two environments, and two retributions are all inspired by our own karma.To transform these two environments, only from the heart, this is the key.Therefore, according to Buddhism, we should be dignified according to righteousness, the small environment should be dignified, and the big environment should also be dignified.

Therefore, if we want to fundamentally transform life and society, we must firmly believe in cause and effect, to prove cause and effect, to analyze problems with the laws of cause and effect, and to find reasonable solutions. This is the only way for us to get out of the predicament.

The so-called dilemma includes not only the dilemma of our individual life, but also the dilemma of the whole society.Our individual lives have difficulties, that is our survival troubles.Our society has difficulties, that is, many social problems.To solve these two problems must start from the cause and effect.The world is made dirty by human beings, and it is up to us to clean it up.

To purify the world, first of all, each of us must first purify our minds, and use cause and effect to regulate our minds and behaviors.Man can be the master of nature and fate only on the premise of knowing and deeply believing in cause and effect.If you don't believe in cause and effect, you can only be a slave of nature and fate forever.

After all, what is fate?It is the cause we planted in the past, the cause we planted in the past, and now we must receive this retribution.

The purpose of understanding the law of cause and effect is to improve the cultivation of life.Life cultivation is mainly composed of virtue and wisdom, with virtue first and wisdom second.The key to self-cultivation in life is to be moral and live a perfect moral life.

If one can abide by these norms of self-cultivation, as far as individuals are concerned, he can get rid of pain and troubles and obtain a happy and complete life; as far as society is concerned, he can generally improve people's moral standards, purify social atmosphere, and promote human peace. The significance and value of protecting the ecological environment and building a pure land on earth are enormous.Therefore, the choice of kindness is a very important thing for all people.

In addition, many people asked me, can looking at Feng Shui change your destiny?Many people, when they see relatives or friends with various obstacles in their fortunes, will persuade him (her): Why not look at Feng Shui!Change your luck!

Can looking at Feng Shui really improve your fortune?Yes, looking at feng shui can make poor people rich, sick people become healthy, employees with poor luck get a raise or promotion, and companies that have been losing money for many years can become prosperous. It can even make the opposing couple change their minds...

On the surface, Feng Shui can improve fate, but most people will ignore one of the famous sayings that contains profound philosophy-blessing the land and blessing the people.

The meaning of this sentence is: Any blessed land with good geomantic omen in the world can only be lived in by blessed people.A blessed place is also a residence with good Fengshui.In other words, it is absolutely impossible for people without good luck to live in a blessed land with good Feng Shui.

How did this blessing come about?One is innate (that is, brought about by external causes); the other is obtained by accumulating good deeds in this life.The former is congenital luck, and the latter is obtained from acquired remedies.In fact, Feng Shui's change of destiny is only a superficial phenomenon, and it has certain roots.

Feng Shui can improve the fate, the two biggest root causes are: one is to change the fate due to the luck of innate and external factors.The second is to improve one's fate (obtain good fruit) by accumulating goodness (good cause) retribution within the day after tomorrow.

In the final analysis, what can really improve one's destiny is not Feng Shui, but cause and effect.Because, whether it is innate luck or acquired virtues, they are all good fruits obtained from planting good causes.

Therefore, Feng Shui is the branches and leaves on the surface, and cause and effect are the inner roots.

Therefore, we should realize the following causal mind from the law of causality:
Whether it is for one's own happiness or for the happiness of future generations, one should have many good causes and few evil causes in one's life.

The selfishness and ignorance of human beings have caused a series of dislocations in the current society and the universe, so that there are fewer and fewer good causes, but more and more evil causes, and the sense of crisis in life is getting heavier. In order to change this macroscopic cause, a variety of macroscopic good causes are required.

Everyone contributes their own share of goodness. When the goodness reaches a certain level, the total energy of human happiness will be greatly improved. Although it cannot guarantee that everyone is happy, it can guarantee that the total level of happiness will be greatly improved compared to before.

cause has cause, effect has effect

There are countless forms of the law of cause and effect, but they all start from the four most basic laws.That is, the four laws of cause and effect, cause and effect, cause and effect, and cause and effect.

Here, we begin to talk about the law of cause and effect.

First, we need to understand what a causal link is.Any phenomenon will cause other phenomena, and any phenomenon is caused by other phenomena. This relationship between causing and being caused is called causality.

Between cause and effect, it is self-evident that cause always precedes effect. I have never seen the phenomenon that cause follows effect.

Of course, the cause and effect mentioned here refers to a pair of directly related causes and effects with a logical succession relationship, not false causes and effects.The reason why we think that "the evil will be rewarded with good, and the good will be rewarded with evil" is because we confuse the positive correspondence between cause and effect, and put Zhang Sansan's cause on Li Si, thus creating a misunderstanding!All those who think that the law of cause and effect does not work, the problem lies in this, and it all lies in the issue of Zhang Guan Li Dai.The reason why they have problems is because they don't have a deep understanding of what real cause and effect is, and they don't understand the original relationship between cause and effect!

When a drop of ink is dropped into water, it will spread immediately, but the spread ink cannot gather automatically.There is only "a bright mirror in the high hall with sad and white hair, and the morning is like blue silk and the evening is frost", but it is impossible to have "the evening is like frost and snow, and the morning turns green", "a thousand gold can't buy a young man", "it is impossible for people to step into the same river"!
This irreversible movement of all things in the world is a normal state. Time is irreversible, life is irreversible, and the development of things is irreversible. The reversible pendulum movement is just a special case in motion. Most movements are irreversible. The universe is irreversible, and animals are irreversible. , Plants are also irreversible. It is impossible for a big tree to grow up and grow down again.

All this shows that everything in the world has a direction of movement. Based on this, when we reveal the two elements of material cause and effect, there is also a direction from cause to effect, and it is also irreversible.There must be a cause before there will be an effect.

All dharmas do not have cause and effect, and the reason why an effect becomes an effect must have its cause, but the cause has the appearance of the cause, and the effect has the appearance of the effect, and the effect is not the same as the cause; but the effect is the effect of the cause, and it is not an absolute difference. Is the same cause.Not one is not different, that is, cause and effect each have their own characteristics, but there is no cause without effect, and there is no cause without effect.The non-uniformity of causality is the reality of all dharmas.

A problem can be explained here, that is, this is an inevitable world, not an accidental world.

Precisely because of necessity, just because the cause is planted, the result will be inevitable, so everything in this world can run normally, people will work hard, and only then will they take positive actions for the pursuit of beauty, only the world is fair!
If all movements in this world are accidental, then the result will also become accidental, so who will work hard?How can animals, plants, humans, cultures, etc. have inheritance and logic?How can we know and grasp it?If so, everything becomes unknowable, unimaginable!
If in this world, instead of cause and effect, but effect first and cause later, then everything will become illogical and everything will be agnostic.

Xiaoqin cheated within two years of her marriage. Something that shouldn't have happened to her during a business trip with an excellent male colleague in her work unit. She planted a new evil cause in her family.This reason was later discovered by her husband. His husband was very traditional and couldn't accept his wife's cheating. There was no room for negotiation, so he resolutely proposed a divorce to his wife.The result of this divorce is naturally because she planted the evil cause first, without the evil cause, naturally there would be no evil result of today's divorce.

If you plant a cause in the front, you will inevitably reap the fruit later.Today, we ordinary people don't pay much attention to karma, and we don't understand its inner power. Sometimes, we seem to understand a little, but it passes by in a flash.Therefore, we fall into the world, inflicting all kinds of evil causes and suffering all kinds of evil effects out of ignorance.

What is love, it is hard to give up, the love, feelings, obstacles, and sins that are hard to let go no matter what.And the beginning of the precepts is giving up?Give up all the roots that bind our hearts.Those who have not given up on themselves, no matter how strict the precepts are and how inappropriate things are, one day, breaking the precepts is inevitable.This is the cause and effect that has long been buried.

If you want to be more chic in the future, you will have to suffer more today. There is a saying: The sharp edge of a sword comes from sharpening, and the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from bitter cold.Now we should sow the seeds of hope and water the flowers of success with hard work.Fierce and brutal competition has already begun. Although this is not a battlefield filled with gunpowder, it still requires courageous struggle. Although this is not an Olympic stadium, there are also successful gold medals shining.At the critical moment of life, you should grasp the direction of life, stick to it, never give up, until you succeed!
We must remember that cause and effect are one of the most basic characteristics of the law of causality.

All dharmas arise due to conditions, all dharmas perish due to conditions

In the law of causality, in addition to cause and effect, it is the law of cause and effect.Obviously, if there is a cause, there must be an effect, which means that as long as the cause is planted, it will inevitably bear fruit, no matter what kind of fruit it is, it will definitely bear fruit.In this pair of direct causal logic chains, if there is a cause, there must be an effect, and if there is an effect, the cause of the previous action must be found. The two are indispensable, and the absence of the one does not exist and cannot be established.Please see this story:
My father has a primary school education and has worked in other places for many years. My mother is illiterate and a rural person.In such an environment, without hard work, my academic performance in the first to fifth grades of elementary school was naturally always among the best, and there were many awards in my family.It should be said that my talent is not bad.At that time, the teacher liked me, the folks praised me, and my parents were proud of me.

After entering junior high school (14-16 years old), I learned to masturbate because of my curiosity and the instigation of older boys.Fantasies about the opposite sex, and even revealing to neighbor's children.It was the fastest time for obscenity. At that time, I already felt uncomfortable in sleep, shy when meeting people, and introverted. In fact, my karma had already appeared and I didn’t know it.

After entering high school, she masturbated frequently, even twice a day, peeking at pornographic manuscripts and indulging in pornographic fantasies for a long time. She was introverted and didn't like sports (actually from lust to mental weakness, of course she didn't like sports).When studying, it takes more time to memorize the textbook content than ordinary students.After more efforts than ordinary people, I was finally admitted to a foreign college.There is a classmate at the next table, whose academic performance is not as good as mine, but was admitted to a key university.It's really the fastest retribution for lust, and lust reduces Fulu. (I didn't know that at the time)
During my college study, I already felt that masturbation was harmful, so I restrained myself from it.However, the neurasthenia became worse, the mood was depressed, the sleep was not good, and the study efficiency was very poor.

After work, the habit of lingering lustfully has not been relieved.As long as he sees a virtuous and beautiful woman, he becomes greedy, and when he sees a woman's beauty, he becomes selfish.The spirit is not good, and the quality of sleep is poor. I want to use qigong to improve my sleep, but the effect is not satisfactory.Colleagues in the work unit reported that I was young, honest and inactive. No matter how hard I worked, I would not be promoted and reused.I just want to find a good girlfriend, but I don't like what others introduce, but I can't see what I want.Later, hepatitis A became popular, and I was also infected due to poor resistance.

Because I was not reused in my unit (actually it was not that my unit didn’t reuse me, but that I was rewarded for my own karma), I jumped into the sea alone. After I got out, I was still lingering from time to time, and I didn’t know how to change my habits.Although after ten years of hard work and hard work, the income is not as good as that of the state-owned units.I wanted to improve my academic qualifications and took self-study exams. I studied very hard, and it took me more than ten years to get a bachelor's degree. At the age of 36, my body began to weaken. Depression, fatigue, insomnia, headache, low back pain, tinnitus, poor memory, and lumbar disc herniation followed one after another. I took a lot of traditional Chinese medicine, but it didn't work.

Sexual desire will reduce fortune, life expectancy, wisdom, unsatisfactory family members, and unfavorable official career.Lustful intentions harm oneself, relatives, and the country.Loyalty and filial piety are incomplete.I am truly a sinner.I hope that latecomers will read this article and take it as a warning to avoid repeating the same mistakes.The world should learn from me.This matter is related to the future of children, the future of parents, and the future of the country.Parents should clarify the benefits and risks of this matter when children learn knowledge, and teachers also have an unshirkable responsibility to remind students to pay special attention here.

I wish to use this merit to dedicate myself to people like me; to cut off lustful behaviors, to restore physical and mental well-being;Don't do evil because it is small, and don't do good because it is small!
Xiao Wang suffered from stomach problems. There are many reasons for stomach problems, but according to modern Western theory, 80% of the reasons are because of bad emotions.In other words, if a person's negative emotions control someone for a long time, then he will definitely get sick.Of course, there are many levels of illness, such as mild illness, minor illness, moderate illness, serious illness, terminal illness, etc. If a person is depressed for a long time, does not exercise, and does not pay attention to the rules of eating and drinking, he will naturally become ill for a long time.

From these two stories, we can conclude that if there is a cause, there must be an effect, and if there is an effect, there must be an antecedent.

It is precisely because we know that there will be results before planting the cause, so we will be full of hope in life, live in waiting, live in expectation, we will give love to our relatives, do our best to help our friends, Be loyal to the leadership, because we will all be convinced that there will be an outcome waiting for us in the near future.All our efforts are actually directed at the result that will appear in the future.If there is only cause but no effect, who will pay?I don't think there will be a single person.We must fully understand and grasp causal linkages.

The law of cause and effect has two further features:
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