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MY PERFECT TEACHER
EXPLAINS
KARMA
The complete
virtuous action of living in the morality abstaining
from the negative karma of telling lies 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: When
you are reborn in the future as a human being, you will
not be criticized or cheated by others. Instead, other
people will be honest with you. Again, this means that
when in this life others treat you badly in these ways,
reacting in anger and retaliating by harming others is
not a solution. It only creates more negative karma,
only creates the causes of more harm and suffering both
to oneself and to others. Therefore, the ultimate answer
to these problems mentioned above is to practice
morality in this life, now, avoiding the negative karma
of lying.
(3) the possessed result: In the place in the human realm
where you are reborn in the future you will experience
happiness and success. Your work will prosper, many
clients and customers will come, and people will be very
supportive. If you are a farmer, life will not be
difficult; your success will not diminish. Similarly, if
you work in transportation, you will have many
passengers and will prosper. If you become a shopkeeper,
a hospital or hotel worker, and so on, customers will be
plenty and they will not try to cheat you. You will
reside in a place where people do not cheat you, a place
free of many causes of fear.
(4) creating the result similar to the previous
cause of living in
the morality abstaining from telling lies: In future
lives you will again be able to collect good karma by
living in the morality abstaining from lying. Thus, this
is the cause for you to be able to stop giving harm to
others and to yourself in this way.
The complete virtuous action of living in the
morality abstaining from the negative karma of
slander 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 many friends.Everyone will be very happily
united with you, in good positive friendship. People
will treat you well. You will not experience disunity
and division between your friends, your family, your
co-workers, or your acquaintances. You will not
experience having your friends and companions abandon
you or drift away. People whom you meet will not be mean
to you.
(3 )
the possessed result:
When you are reborn in the human realm in the future
your environment will be free of the following
characteristics: being unpleasantly rough, not smooth
and flat; steeply hilly; jagged, uneven, rocky terrain.
The place where you reside will not be a fearful place
with many causes of fear; it will be a place where
people do not cheat [??? slander, criticize, malign??]
you.
(4) creating the result similar to the previous
cause of living in
the morality abstaining from slander: In future lives
you will again be able to collect good karma by living
in the morality abstaining from slander. This means you
will be able to stop giving harm to others and to
yourself in this way.
The complete virtuous action of living in the
morality abstaining from the negative karma of harsh
speech 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: In
the place in the human realm where you are born in the
future you will not hear unpleasant words from others.
Words will not be the causes of anger or fighting with
others.
(3) the possessed result: The place in the human realm where
you are born in the future will be a luxuriant glorious
environment where there will be only beautiful mountains
with lovely meadows, lakes, streams, waterfalls,
flowers, plants, and trees. It will be a very happy
place. Your environment will not be dry and barren like
a salt desert, a desolate, thorny, rocky, depressing
environment where nothing grows, filled with scorched
and burned trees, rough lichen-covered rocks, scrubby
bushes, and fearful places where people have done many
negative actions. You will not have to experience an
environment like this.
(4) creating the result similar to the previous
cause of living in
the morality abstaining from harsh speech: In future
lives you will again be able to collect good karma by
living in the morality abstaining from harsh speech.
This means you will be able to stop giving harm to
others and to yourself in this way.
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