é™æ€è¯ Readings For Silent Reflection
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Cause and Effect
If in the past life or in this present life one did not live virtuously, and though one's parents may be very highly-educated, one will not be blessed with virtuous children. Instead, unfortunate and sickly children will be born to one, resulting in future unease and suffering.
Note : There's no such thing as we inherit our parents' karma. This is due to the child's personal karma from his/her past lives.
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No one can escape death. When a person leaves the world he takes along nothing with him, except his karmic seeds of good and bad deeds. It is said :"At death not even one of 10,000 thing we can bring; Except only the karmic seeds of every deed we did."
万般带�去，�有业�身。
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Cause and Effect
Not to kill but to set lives free is to create blessings, a practice so easy; Not to eat meat is our human dignity. For we were born to live, to learn to love, be free. There is nothing great to shout about. Just do not kill in your deeds, speech, thoughts. Bad karma you will then not create. Only Blessings you reap and take.
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However, if one is unable to be a vegetarian due to some reasons, Buddhists should eat only 三净肉. 三净肉 means :
1) The animals were not specially killed for your consumptions.
2) You did not see the animals were being killed and how the animals died.
3) You did not hear the cries of the animals when they were being killed.
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Cause and Effect
If in this life one steals and robs without shame, and has never practised sharing and giving,..... in one's next life one will suffer from poverty.
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If in the past or present life one uses cruel and inhumane ways to torture or kill people and animals, in this life one will meet with tragic death.
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In the past, we may have caused bad karma which was supposed to result in us going into hell or into the ghost realms as karmic retribution. But due to our determination to upkeep precepts, we only suffer a little headache. After the headache has disappeared, the karma also vanished, and we are at peace and are well again.
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Cause and Effect
A person is rich but is ugly; this is because in the past one was generous but easily lost one's temper.
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A selfish miser in the past life will become as a pauper in this life.
Note : Donate wisely. Don't donate blindly.
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Cause and Effect
Those who ill-treat or kill animals in the past or in this present life will meet with many sicknesses in life.
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Cause and Effect
Common sicknesses can be treated by doctors. If it is a prolonged or recurring sickness, or one after undergoing operations and there is still no signs of recovery, it is Karmic sickness; often caused by much killing in the past lives. We can first tackle the causes by becoming a vegetarian, prevent killing, and also to free lives. More importantly is to emphasize on our personal cultivation and chanting the various names of the Buddhas.