é™æ€è¯ Readings For Silent Reflection
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Cause and Effect
A truly charitable person will perform charitable deeds without the thought of getting name or rewards. To expect name and rewards in doing charity is selfish. Such motives, in the name of charity, will only lead to demerits and creating future karmic afflictions.
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Cause and Effect
Do not simply pour hot water onto the ground. This is because many small insects (cause) live in the ground. This reckless action will harm their lives and moreover it will result in our having a short life (results).
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Cause and Effect
If in this life one practises Compassion and Equanimity and avoid killing, and is always happy to hep others..........one will have a long life-span.
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Cause and Effect
Although you may provide food to animals you keep in cages, but you are depriving them of their freedom. Your next life may be long, but you will live with limited freedom. As such, keeping animals in captivity is not worth doing, rather let them be free.
The reason why one is mistakenly thrown into prison is because in one's past life, one often put animals into cages.
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Cause and Effect
Although when I am in need, let me wish that others will have plenty. Although when I am sick and weak, may I wish that others are healthy. When suffering comes to me, let me accept it with peace.
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Cause and Effect
When a person is thinking of doing evil, but has not started to do it, we can persuade or hinder him from doing so. Such a timely intervention already produces good.
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Cause and Effect
In "Contemplating the Great Stillness" it states : Attachment to forms, sound, smells, tastes and touch, is the cause of sicknesses. Because these 5 senses taint our Bodhicitta and Mind, they are referred to as "the 5 Dusts".
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Cause and Effect
When a person is thinking of doing evil, but has not started to do it, we can persuade or hinder him from doing so. Such a timely intervention already produces good.
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"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest." ~ Confucius
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Cause and Effect
Not all retributive actions will have their reactions appearing in this life. Sometimes their reactions appear in the next life. If the conditions are not right, the reactions will appear in the next few life-times or in other future life-times
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Originally posted by waterful:
Nicely done Dawnsfirstlight ;) Thanks for the encouraging words of wisdom!
Thanks. These posters are not done by me. I just copy and paste :) Gald that you like them.
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