Read You Thousands of Times and Never Get Tired Chapter 127
127. Cause and Retribution
Lark: During this period, I always heard you mention the causal relationship. Brother Hai, see if this explanation is different. "Karma, the Chinese idiom means that Buddhism believes that what causes are planted in this life and what results will bear in the next life."
Horn of the Sea: Why did you ask this question too?
Lark: Just a little bit of a question.
The Corner of the Sea: After you ask this, there are really some differences. Let’s not talk about the distance for now, just watch some big and small evils on this TV. There are no need to be retribution in the next life, and this life will be retribution. It can be called the retribution in this life, and it comes very timely.
Lark: TV is mostly fictional, do you believe this?
The Horn of the Sea: As long as it is not fantasy, it is somewhat real. Then let’s not mention TV, just look at the history of nearly a hundred years. Which of the initiators of the war is not a retribution in the world?
Lark: That's true.
The Horn of the Sea: Some were hanged, some were imprisoned, some were exiled, and some were beheaded. If you think this has become history, please look closer. Some people finally climbed to a high position and failed to stick to their original intentions to engage in corruption, and ended up falling very coldly to the hearts of the people. Is there still less retribution in this life?
Lark: Is the above explanation wrong?
The Horn of the Sea: You can’t be wrong. Some have escaped this life and retribution is left to their descendants.
Lark: That's not how I understand it?
The Horn of the Sea: Yes, not all. Some are left to the descendants, and some are their own next life. So, you need a variety of good causes to bear good results, which not only benefit yourself, but also benefit the descendants, and at the same time benefit mankind.
Lark: In this case, it’s really not OK to believe it.
The Horn of the Sea: That is of course, the Buddha does not commit falsehood. Good will be rewarded, and evil will be rewarded; it is not that the time has not come, and when the time comes, everything will be rewarded.
Lark: What does "cause and effect" mean?
The Corner of the Sea: "Cause and effect" is more broad, including the causes and consequences, which means that there will be any result. There will be any cause and effect, and no one can escape it.
Lark: Why do you want to hide? Is it all derogatory?
Horn of the Sea: Of course not. My language is wrong, so no one can avoid it.
Lark: Is it evidenceable?
The Horn of the Sea: Use your brain.
Lark: Let me think about it. Oh, remember it. "You get what you sow, you get what you gain," should be a causal relationship.
Horn of the Sea: Is there any fake? "If you don't work, you won't get anything", unless you are exploiting it.
Lark: How do you understand that you have no effort?
The Horn of the Sea: It may be that it has encountered some natural disaster, or that it has encountered a certain "evil" person, or that the method is not very right. But even so, it is not gaining nothing. The process of giving is mostly fulfilling. At the same time, it has exercised its muscles, activated its thinking, and strengthened its body.
Lark: "Disease comes from the mouth, and disaster comes from the mouth," right?
The Horn of the Sea: It cannot be not, it must be connected.
Lark: I seem to understand that speaking and eating must be controlled, otherwise it will cause big mistakes.
The Corner of the Sea: Be careful of words and actions, eat balancedly, be responsible for each other, be beneficial to others and win-win, benefit others and be self-interested, and be blessed. On the contrary, it will be misleading others and harming oneself and suffering.
Lark: No need to spread it out anymore, leave it as a brick to attract jade. Otherwise, it will never end, and it will inevitably lead to mistakes if you say too much.
Horn of the Sea: Listen to you. It’s time to go to the forest to kick and bending over and breathe the fresh air.