Oct 14, 2019
Master Huijing’s Short Dharma Teachings about Deep Belief in Cause and Effect
深信因果
A Buddhist should understand all worldly joy and sadness, fortune and misfortune, success and failure, gain and loss, are the results of our karma from past lives, in conjunction with present ripened conditions. If we had no karma, we would be a sacred being or a Buddha, who do not reincarnate in the Six Realms. Reincarnation is the retribution of karma from past lives. Unfortunately, we forget this. However, the Law of Cause and Effect is still valid, retribution will come into effect when the proper time comes.
So, the Buddha says, “If one wishes to know his past life, one’s retribution in the present life is his biggest clue. If one wishes to know his future life, one’s karma in the present life is creating it. Those with more wholesome karma will be reborn as a human, and those with more unwholesome karma will fall into hells. If they recite Amitabha Buddha’s Name, they will be reborn in the Land of Bliss with reliance on the Buddha’s power.
學佛的人要了解,世上的苦樂禍福、成敗得失都是我們過去所造的業逢緣而呈現的,如果我們沒有造業,今天我們就成仙、成佛了,不會在這凡間輪迴。會在凡間輪迴,都是過去世造了種種的業,只是我們忘記了,但是因果不昧,時間一到自然受報。
所以佛陀說「欲知前世因,今生受者是;欲知未來果,今生做者是」。善業多者轉生為人, 惡業多者墮落地獄,若念阿彌陀佛則靠佛力往生極樂世界。
Namo Amituofo!
