The Burden Of Karma.

 

            Or in the sky under the sea

            Or hide in mountain caves

                         Nowhere in the world

                         Evading bad karma. (first).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.

 

The four verses above mentioned clearly about the evil that karma did, it is impossible to avoid its consequences, but what about the good karma?

Certainly karmic retribution is no different, anywhere, at any time, any scene, whenever there are enough causes and conditions, the person who sows good karma will also benefit from that karma.

                         Baseball career charity has left

                         No karma has no bearing

                         There is no good deed to be wasted. (2)

Good karma or bad karma are also karma and from karma there is a retribution corresponding to that good or evil karma. So let's find out what is karma? Karma of karma like? How to get rid of the burden of karma on life that is almost exclusively repayment and repayment as well as how to escape the charisma of karma that drives people to drift in samsara?

Thus this article clearly focuses on two points, one is to understand what karma is and two is how to get rid of and release the burden of karma.

What is karma? The word karma is so familiar to anyone who is a Buddhist and also spreads everywhere, everyone, even non-Buddhists, sometimes blurt out "My karma!" When the body or the mind catches must endure a thing, a thing, a situation, a situation, a relationship, between people and people, or with animals, with things, with the whole nature of that, that thing, love That situation, that situation ... only brings suffering, pressing, attachment, pain, discomfort. Nobody speaks karma, karma, when body and mind are enjoying good, happy, and easy bear, the pleasure.

In fact, thinking that way about karma is a mistake. Whether good or bad, happiness or suffering, they are all considered karma.

One more wrong thing that our world and ordinary people often face is to blame all the faults and miseries on karma and see that karma is no different from a «fate» that is predestined, immutable. , is what I have to suffer, cannot change, do otherwise. 

 

The root of the word Karma in Pali is Kamma and Sanskrit is Karma. The meaning is simple and short, usually action and work. This word Karma became popular from Asia to Europe, from East to West, since Buddhism was spread around the world. On the tip of the tongue, no one knows, not to mention Karma. Show that the teachings of karma are really easy to be absorbed into people's hearts. For that reason karma needs to be understood thoroughly.

Talking about karma as action, behavior, and deed is simple but too complicated in the Buddhist teaching about karma.

Why ? Because not every action is to have Karma. An arm raised or stretched is also an action but not the Industry. A breath in and out is also an action but it is not karma. When the arm is stretched out with the intention of beating someone or killing someone, it is called karma. A breath in and out of the attention, attention, conditioning, body contemplation, mind contemplation with the aim of bringing the body and mind into the realm of meditation are called karma.

When a gesture, deed, action towards a clear purpose, a clear object and intentional mind, truly wants to follow the thought, can be good, good but also bad, evil for that object, such gestures, actions, actions are called karma.

Eating, sleeping and sleeping are also actions but not karma. However, you should also watch out for long-term, repetitive habits can also become karma at any time. For example, eating, sleeping is just right, right time, right time but once you don't know how to harmonize, balance, become greedy, find something strange and delicious for your mouth, kill animals, and falling asleep too much becomes lazy, will not know how to try, work, study with no good results, lead to failure, loss and anger born of anger. After anger, you will inevitably be cursed at, cursed or will have stronger actions, intentionally harming people and harms, thus becoming Karma. Habits are also practiced since childhood, pampered by parents, eat well, wear nice clothes, hang out, have fun to play with, have people serve, and know the momentum like that,

From a small habit that can become a big karma at any time. For example, every morning there must be a cup of coffee, the smell of coffee perpetually permeates into the nose, giving birth, without coffee every morning is unbearable, the urge to act, to seek coffee for okay, but unlucky, no penniless, running, begging, borrowing, no one giving, temper, anger, birth quarrel, at first just from the mouth to create a career, slowly to create a career itself , grabbing hands, kicking, beating people ... That's not to mention the addictions, addiction to more toxic things that craving, lack of balance, being very hard to bear and difficult to master. body, mind, can lead to murder.

This word karma, this action, this act, this action is not only created, created is finished but also entails the results and consequences related to the creation and creation. Call it Karma or Karma. Raising your hands to beat and kill people will result in the retribution of imprisonment or being killed again. Meditation, focusing on the breath, the body and mind are subtly brought to the result of preliminary meditation, the second meditation ... Killing animals also results in the retribution of karmic retribution, hatred, cursing and cursing. The newspaper was cursed at again.

There are no good karma, not evil but ... ungainly! Just because of passion, looking for «thrills», playing life-threatening games such as high-speed racing, climbing the top of the mountain, skiing in the snow, ice in the snow… or just because you didn't learn, didn't obey. counseling, living in moderation, unbalanced, negligent eating, unhygienic, not knowing how to abstain, relaxing, indulging in sexual immorality, adultery, addiction, smoking, resulting in Pathogenesis, shorten life span. What a pity!

In the Samyutta Sutta we read: «Every woman  , when she moves, is guilty» Crime here is also Karma. We are very easy, so easy to create karma. A gesture, a deed, an action that can only be attributed to oneself, to the Ego to be enjoyed by this, to enjoy that, to be constrained by demands, to be subjected to external pressures, to anxiety, from work, from family, dominated by personal emotions, or just because of illness, the physical lack of strength, the intellect to do as you like it is easy to become entangled with greed. , anger and delusion. Anyone else who touches their own body or Self or what is directly or indirectly related to themselves, their relatives, or just animals and objects that belong immediately takes action to defend themselves , protecting, defending, protecting, so often encountering anger, loss of wisdom leads to wrong actions, leading to creating Industry.

In the Vietnamese language, we have the words "Poor" to indicate mercy, in fact, these two words have the origin and influence of Buddhism, referring to the karma created, which must bring the sins and suffering is paying for the karma, the sins committed.

Karma or Karma is closely related to the law of Cause and effect and the theory of Reincarnation and Reincarnation. These theories have been circulated in India before Buddha was born and are also mentioned by the Buddha in his teachings:

«All beings carry their own Karma as a" legacy, as a genetic thing, as a close relative, as a refuge ". Precisely because each person's own career is different, there is «a scene of heterogeneity among sentient beings» (3)

We understand due to the difference, the difference between karma, actions and artifact acts that have differences and differences in rebirth. There are people reborn in rich and precious places, some in lowly poor, some are beautiful, respectful, and have   ugly, rough, handicapped figures, there are intelligent people, and others. foolish, there are talented people, useless people, some people have a good reputation, the anonymous people are detracted, despised, some people have the authority, positions, servants, slaves ... All are all due to the wrong or good deeds created in the previous life and even the present life.  The actions of the present will determine the retribution of the future life. Therefore, it should be understood that the retribution from actions can come from the past and may also come from actions in the present. Just as actions from the long past may not bear fruit in the present life and will bear fruit in the future. The reason is not enough conditions, not favorable conditions only. Therefore, when it comes to cause and effect, karma always thinks of the past, present and future three generations without being surprised to see that people who do evil in the present life still do not suffer a consequence, still «right» beneficiaries of wealth and wealth or not in prison, as well as those who do good again meet many circumstances of misery, injustice, misery.

 

Even though he understood that Karma was due to karma, the Buddha also taught that one should not blame it all on karma and fold his arms in battle or enjoy it. Be blessed, happy and happy, it will be easy to depend on, pride, complacency, desire to enjoy enjoyment but forget to cultivate, cultivate good dharma, blessing for the future. Blessing all, then empty handed, will return to poverty together, fall into misery, misery. On the contrary, those who suffer are easily discouraged, rotten, hindering beliefs, born jealousy, resentment and so on, and do not know how to practice good deeds, save money from their future lives, as well as not knowing that practicing good deeds in real life can also bring immediate karmic retribution in life. Call it karmic retribution.

So understanding Karma should be understood with a positive spirit because the purpose of man in general and of Buddhists in particular is to escape suffering, but also to escape from the burden of Karma on his shoulders.

Not being a Buddhist but knowing to act with morality, of course, of course, there will still be karmic retribution corresponding to that good deed, even though I don't believe it, don't want it, the retribution will come naturally. The law of cause and effect is inevitable. The same is true for the opposite, if the act is evil or wrong, then the retribution is also evil, wrong, and must be punished, paid even if not wanted.

As a Buddhist, you will pay more attention to your actions because of your firm belief in karma, reincarnation, rebirth, and faith in Buddha's teachings for self-liberation.

So what is the focus on action?   It is always contemplating and mastering your Mind. Every action obeys only the mind.  

                         The mind leads all things

                         Thoughtful mind, artifact mind  (4)

The mind recognizes the scene, the object seen, heard, tasted, tasted, touched, known through the six senses of eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind. That's it then right: I like this, hate that, I want this, lust for that, I must have this, own that, I must be like this, cannot be that ...

And this Mind urges Italy to act, Body to act, Password to act. Karma comes into being. Karma is already present, then the Fruit:

                         Has sown yet

                         Then you will reap the results

                         Good deeds will reap good results

                         Evil will reap the fruits .  (5)

So, karma can be good, good can be evil, evil as well as evil, good or evil. Depending on the evil, good and evil nature of karma, there is a corresponding result. And also depending on the degree of strength, lightness of will, of the Mind at the time of action, is intentional or unintentional. It is the motivation that drives action and the mental state, or mind, at the time of action is an important determinant of the nature of karma and the resulting retribution.

Due to the Self-centered mind, wanting to satisfy the Ego leads to good and evil deeds. And this desire is no other than craving or craving, craving. But once there is Greed, there will be anger, delusion. Greed, desire to satisfy the Ego but not like it will angry anger, the word Greed also born jealousy thus will lead to evil deeds, brain damage. Again, because Ai is rooted in ignorance, ignorance of the unreal, false of this I should lead to wrong actions, delusion, not lucidity. Worship, worship this self is just a disaster. On the contrary, relying on it to find the way to escape suffering is the right thing to do. Relying on it to create good things, to bring happiness, happiness, benefit for new people is the right thing to do. It is also out of action, but created in a good, right, ethical way, right action would bring good results, but if created in a bad way, then it will reap bad and evil results. As simple as that.

 

We recognize actions created through three "tools": Body, Speech and Italy. Evil deeds are numerous and numerous, but they are classified into a number of major ones: where the Body is murdered, robbers and adulterers, where the One is lied, speaks two tongues, talks woven, speaks cruelly, In Italy, there is greed, hatred and delusion. Good deeds also come from the body, speech, and mind and also from the main acts of evil that do the opposite, where the body does not kill but protects lives, does not rob, but gives, supplies, ensure material life, not adultery but faithfulness, full love. In Khau, honest words, kind words, kind words, righteous words, causing trust, contentment, and not arguing. In Italy, they know how to end or eliminate greed, to know the minimum of contentment, not to be aggressive, jealousy, to make a conversation more than to lose, to scramble, to understand what is right and wrong,

 

From the action that creates karma is in the mind. The mind also has only three distinct directions, one for good and two for evil, and three for not good for evil. The mind intentionally acts to harm the brain as well as the brain to harm oneself. The mind acts to bring benefits and peace to people, as well as to oneself. If it is only for the good that is lacking to oneself, then it is not necessarily good. On the contrary, just being good for oneself but not good for others is also not a true good. Focusing on yourself is right, but don't go too far to be selfish, self-sufficient, complacent, narcissistic. Evil karma creates bad karma, resulting in evil karma, while good karma leads to bad karma.

As mentioned above, there are countless numbers of bad karma. It is not only the hands of people who kill, cause injuries that shed blood for evil. Acting toward others, as well as oneself, causing suffering, despair, rot, depression, falling into misery, falling into neglect, depravity, addiction, gambling, losing Dignity, loss of conscience, loss of intellect, wisdom, no education, not just display, make fall into wrong views, until just cursing, contempt is also evil.

Also, when it comes to good karma, there is more than just giving, taking care of people as well as taking care of yourself, all the pieces of rice, clothes, medicine, shelter that just need a gesture, a comforting word, encouraging, softening, full of sympathy, full of love, warming up, creating joy, creating trust, sowing hope, or showing, educating, helping to develop intelligence and wisdom, which is also healed.

How does the mind create karma like that.

The greed, the greed, creates the greed, does everything to earn for himself, accumulating money, property, material ... Greed can also be greed, sleep, greed, nice wear, upstairs, cars, comfort, greed, pleasure ... Greed can also be greed, fame, career, status. Greed is endless, but greed is just to provide for the senses to be satisfied. Satisfying both material and spiritual ego. Infective mind is implicated because of love, love, passion, attachment, emotional relationship ... Mind of anger is like quarreling, lawsuits, fault lines, scramble, more than losing, Infatuation is hard first, don't listen to anyone, show yourself to be right, delusional, misleading.

In fact, once the mind has an attachment to something, it only causes problems, creating trouble and disturbing emotions. Good as well as evil. Speaking evil is understandable, an evil act is always damaging, hurting, obstructing, causing suffering. But sometimes doing good also causes harm, hurt, obstacles, suffering. For example, just because they want to protect their loved ones, they can slander the innocent people, want to please or win this person's heart, sometimes they have to kill them to provide delicious things and want to protect them. the country, the territory that has to punish invading enemies, wants its religion to be responded by many people and gives birth to fanaticism, which leads to wrong views and violence.

People create good or bad karma, good or evil, from the mind of good and evil choice. This mind is covered by ignorance, wrong view, without right view, right thought will think wrong, misbehave, fall into evil paths and also three evil paths, hell, hungry ghosts, animals born. The mind is only presented, molded, subdued, right understanding, right thought will act properly, being born in the heavenly realms of heaven and people.

As the Buddha says:  «The blessings and sins that man creates are all that man has mastered, which takes people away from this place ... Is what always follows man's heels like a shadow. with picture. So from here, people should store the good to take away elsewhere, in the future. Let's create a solid foundation for tomorrow's world »  (6)

We should understand the Buddha's teaching, through the saying: "the  man who owns  "  means that man, none other than himself, is the master of the acts of his own free will. all freedom to act as we wish, in this respect, in fact, being the master, this is very easy but there is one difficult thing to think about when we want to escape the karmic retribution of our actions not easy ! Easy to do but hard to escape! And this is the burden that people must bear from birth to close their eyes.

Wear a shape and have a life like in the present is due

Karma of the past life, maybe many lives and many lives, but I have no ability to remember and I also no longer own the karmic retribution, when I cannot know, cannot expect, cannot anticipate . People complain, resentment, «blame and sky near and far» when suffering, adversity, failure, but when they are happy, happy, successful, they think that they are the luckiest people in the world or God loves and favors like a baby.

Once one understands that all suffering or happiness, blessings or sins are self-created by one's own Karma, there is no complaining, not blaming anyone nor being complacent about being a darling of God, or being proud. , conceited to consider himself the most holy man. In addition, all are not outside the law of impermanence. If you already enjoy it, then it will disappear. Therefore, the Buddha taught more  : «Please accumulate the good to take away . »

And also because impermanence should not be too desperate suffering, understand that suffering, suffering, punishment will eventually have an end. After hell, there will be days! Rebirth again but once there is rebirth there is still an opportunity to create karma! Creating karma and then continuing to bear karmic retribution. Just like that continues the endless cycle of samsara.

Continuing to learn about karma, we find that karma is again closely related to the theory of dependent origination or interdependent causation.

People have had, created, sown but not meet the conditions, the result will not be achieved. Applying to karma too, karma has sown, created, but not enough karma, so karma will not be achieved either. A career created, sometimes you have to wait for a lifetime, many afterlife, predestined to meet the retribution. However, there are also cases of retribution as described above.

Important problem that we have not solved: How to get rid of the bad, heavy, painful retribution created? Of course, the good karmic retribution, no one would fool them out of their arms! But if you make a mistake, commit a crime, the mind hiding or running away from the consequences is quite ... normal!

There are people who want to be heroes in this field: «I bear it, no complains» The self's fall is very big, heroes are everywhere but hero's blood here is not very necessary. Why ? Because of conceit, refusing to consider himself a mortal, not a saint, when suffering, suffering will be hard to bear, patience is difficult, where you only have the mind of anger and desire to take revenge. !

It is better to follow the teachings of the Buddha so that, if possible, eliminate the poverty that has been created, alleviate the burden carried by future generations and make life more peaceful. Otherwise, it cannot erase nor create new negative karma.

So how to eliminate bad karma? The karma is too evil, too heavy it is hard to avoid retribution, just as the karma has matured, matured, enough karmic conditions and then it is difficult to stop! Well then, courageously look to the future and hope!

Honestly, repenting is the first step. Realizing the wrongs created, being ashamed and voluntarily not relapsing. Depending on the circumstances, depending on the circumstances, it is possible to apologize directly to the person who has committed the crime, perhaps only exposing the crime through another person. By doing so, first of all, my mind also helps to avoid fear and insecurity. Then focus on the practice of good karma to create more merit that can be treated against the bad karma created. The balance may be in favor of the good karma and the virtue created and blocking the conditions to cause the evil karmic retribution to have a chance to achieve. Use virtue to eradicate evil karma. Taking redemption.

If Buddha had given an example of pouring a spoon of salt into a small bowl of water, then the bowl of water would become saline immediately, but also one spoon of salt that would pour into the ocean would not make the ocean salty. Those who are less blessed, like small bowls of water, make a mistake when they make a big mistake, the retribution will be heavy, while a person who has many merits, like an ocean, makes a mistake compared to an ocean of merit, This person's error becomes milder.

The Patriarchs have devised methods of penance to help ordinary people relieve the burden of karma. The worship of the Buddha Names is usually practiced in the temple, bringing practical benefits to the practitioners. Peace of mind, less fear and more opportunities to create good karma, faith grows in the Dharma Sangha. The method of penance, prostration is not a plea for salvation, still knowing that Karma is created by us, then we are responsible for receiving the consequences, but Karma that has been created for many lives is not in the end, they cannot be counted, they are invisible but not lost, they are still in the form of seed

In the Bodhisattva, just waiting for the opportunity, enough causes and conditions to appear immediately, we do not have to sit still and wait for karma to fall and the human condition must not be forced to roll forever in samsara to pay only for all karma! It is pitiful for people, still floating in samsara, they will create karma if they don't practice.

Thus, practicing spiritually, modifying your mind, modifying your actions, practicing according to the Eight-Way Path that Buddha pointed out, will one day have an end to reincarnation, completely removing the burden of karma. Austerities also have many methods, particularly about karma must repent, new karma in the present as well as the old karma many lifetimes. The worship of Hong Danh is a good karma, hard-to-think merit, while worshiping, not thinking of evil, doing no evil, eliminating greed, preventing evil from arising, and not committing evil keep growing. The Buddha also declared: «Monks, whatever karma is done without greed (when he has ceased these causes), the karma is eradicated, cut off from its roots, made like a tree trunk Tala, no longer able to exist (that is, without fruition) no longer has to arise in the future »  (7).

The profound meaning of penance is also to eradicate the root of greed and delusion, three toxic things that motivate people to create karma as fast as an arrow that has just left the bow.

The Venerable Hoa Nghiem Tong taught:  Sin from the beginning, Also from the mind of repentance, The crime of destroying the mind does not, Both are gone.

As fully explored above, karma is created through body, speech and mind originating in the mind. It is this place of delusion that creates karma due to greed and delusion. Leaving out of disappointed mind, shaking off the greed and delusion, not getting caught in negativity also stops creating karma and ceasing karma. If the mind falls, then karma will fall.END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.3/8/2020.