Why study Buddhism? Is there really cause and effect?

Updated on culture 2024-07-29
14 answers
  1. Anonymous users2024-02-13

    Generally speaking, the purpose of studying Buddhism is to learn how to behave and do things, and to regulate one's behavior by listening to and meditating on the teachings of Buddhism.

    Further, as a Buddhist, you must first of all be gentle with yourself, not hurt others, and help others with compassion as much as possible.

    For Mahayana practitioners who have developed bodhichitta Buddhism, studying Buddhism is not a one-sided practice to achieve self-perfection, but a diligent practice based on an insight into the world and the true meaning of life, and taking it as their duty to attain the ultimate happiness and well-being of all sentient beings.

    All in all, as the Buddha said, "Do no evil, do all good, and purify one's mind, which is Buddhism."

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-12

    The purpose of studying Buddhism is to relieve the pain of life and death, and there is really cause and effect.

  3. Anonymous users2024-02-11

    The purpose of studying the Dharma is to solve all suffering and afflictions, both in this life and in the future, and there is indeed cause and effect.

  4. Anonymous users2024-02-10

    Many people start studying Buddhism because they can't find other answers.

    There are many things that can only be answered in the Dharma.

  5. Anonymous users2024-02-09

    The purpose of learning Buddhism is to get rid of life and death, to get rid of the great suffering of reincarnation, the greatest pain of people is reincarnation, which is used for liberation and rest, and the ** of Mo Yan is the fatigue of life and death. The third cycle of karma is the basic principle of the existence of all living beings in the world, and it is also the foundation of Buddhism. Without karma, who would do good?

    What is the point of doing good? Why talk about moral conscience? So, if there is no karma and reincarnation, no one will have to talk about morality and do good anymore, so what is the point of me doing good and suffering?

    Why don't you do bad things and eat, drink and have fun, and die and return to nothing, won't you make a lot of money? Are those who are conscientious, hardworking, and resentful in accumulating virtue and doing good deeds a great fool? Therefore, there must be karma, good and good will be rewarded with good and evil will be rewarded.

    Otherwise, people will not be upset when they do bad things, the so-called thief has a weak heart, if there is no karma, what is his weak heart? This is a human instinct, because there is reincarnation and cause and effect, which is known in his deep instinctive consciousness, but it cannot be clearly recognized at the intellectual level on the surface of consciousness.

  6. Anonymous users2024-02-08

    [The Buddha said] cause and effect sea, fruit cause and source, cause and effect at the same time.

    Karma is so complex that we ordinary people can't think about it, we can't think about it, even the Bodhisattvas of the Ten Lands can't fully understand it, so the Buddha said: "Karma and karma are inconceivable and unthinkable, but the Buddha and the Buddha can be the end." "Cause and effect, though intricate, should be believed.

    If you don't believe in cause and effect, you won't recite the Buddha, and if you believe in cause and effect, you will also believe in the cause of the Buddha and can achieve the results of your rebirth in the world of bliss. Believing in the cause of the Buddha can achieve the fruit of attaining Bodhi.

    The cause and effect of ordinary people is called "if it is the cause, if it is the effect." "If a person who has not practiced killed someone in a previous life, maybe he will be punished by the law of the country in that life, and he will go to hell, go to the path of hungry ghosts, the path of animals, and then come back to be a human being. Now when you encounter a complainer, you still have to suffer a knife to a life, which is called "if it is the cause and the effect".

    Because there is no attachment to cultivation, "good will be rewarded, evil will be rewarded, it is not that the time has not come." "When the hour comes, you will be rewarded.

    The Great Wisdom Treatise says, "If there are a hundred thousand eons, the karma created will not perish." That is to say, karma can be destroyed.

    No matter how much karma we have created in our past lives, when we hear about the Dharma, we start to make amends for good things and stay away from bad karma and create many good karma. Even if we have a lot of bad karma in the process of practice, we should be willing to bear it, and we should give all the merits and merits that we have cultivated to our relatives and creditors, and call on them to study the Dharma with us and move towards the path to liberation, which means that we are changing the cause and effect.

    Because of this, and with a lot of good karma, the retribution will change, so for the diligent reciting Buddha, "if it is the cause", it is not the "such effect". Because there are different causes added, the retribution changes in a variety of ways, and it is difficult to say. Therefore, chanting the Buddha should not be negative.

    Through reciting the Dharma, and then cultivating the ten good karma, the merit and merit of the Buddha will be directed towards us, and the creditors who complain will be more or less affected by us; The seeds of evil that we created in our past lives are also beginning to change. If we add a lot of good and pure karma, this fruit may become a pure and good result, not a bad one.

    To study and recite the Dharma, we must believe in cause and effect, believe that we can change the karma that the causes of evil created in the past will be formed, and believe that we will be able to be reborn in bliss as we wish, or the Pure Land of the Buddhas, or see the self-nature of the Buddha, or attain the highest quality rebirth. In addition, we must also believe that the path to liberation must not be separated from cause and effect.

    Some people may think that since the ultimate liberation does not have to be retribution, it is far from cause and effect, and the fact is not necessarily true.

    Because after liberation, sooner or later, we must go from small to large, and practice the bodhisattva line, and the practice of the bodhisattva line will have the five yin; If the cause of evil is not changed, it will be retributed after all, so it is still not separated from cause and effect. The reason why liberation is achieved today is because of the good and pure causes planted in past lives, and the various causes for studying the Dharma in this life and past lives, so the results of liberation today are still in the law of cause and effect, so we should have a deep belief in cause and effect.

  7. Anonymous users2024-02-07

    The key to your question is to make you understand the existence of past lives and future lives. You don't believe in past lives and future lives. It is believed that when a person dies, it is broken and will not continue to the next life, so when you come into this world, you do not recognize that it is a continuation of the previous life.

    However, Buddhism holds that people have a past life and an afterlife because after death the mind does not cease to exist, and your karma will lead you to the next samsara. How? We are all mortals, not saints, and we cannot take you to the heavens or hell, but from our daily observations, we can find clues.

    For example, why do some children who grew up in the same countryside have talent for learning English and some have talent for learning mathematics? Growing up in the same family, why do you love to eat turnips and your brother loves potatoes? What we take for granted but ignore are the habits that we have brought with us in our past lives.

    If, as you think, there is no past life or afterlife, then every newborn child should be the same and will not have their own preferences. However, in fact, this is not the case, some dolls love to cry, some love to laugh, some love to play with cars, and some love to play with guns. All of this is the result of pre-life karma.

    From this, you will understand that the good and evil you did in your past life will lead to suffering and happiness in your present and future lives. Therefore, even though you are suffering now, you will also strive to do good, and you who are enjoying now will also strive to cherish your blessings.

  8. Anonymous users2024-02-06

    I write too much, I can't see it, I'm not a master, I just say cause and effect, there is cause and effect before and after, plant a tree seed, you may grow a tree, fruit trees are not pruned, may not grow well, this is the cause and effect that you can see and want. You've helped a hundred people, and if you're in trouble, there may be fifty people who help you. It's not pleasing to everyone, you fight with everyone, and if you have a car accident, no one will save you.

    It's that simple. Your current situation is related to your present life, past life, and even the behavior of your parents, and in the same way that your current behavior will affect your future and even the future of your children. So what is bitterness?

    Look at the mentality, a big boss will be bitter if he loses a deal, and a beggar will be happy when he gets a steamed bun. Buddhism says to give up the ego and seek the true nature of the ego. Who in the world can avoid troubles?

    The key is what mindset to look at. Don't always think about the unhappiness of your own sesame beans, a person drops something and takes a lot of things in his hand, you help him pick it up, and it will be very happy to hear her say thank you, this is the way. Hope you get the idea.

  9. Anonymous users2024-02-05

    Amitabha! Cause and effect are true, and there must be no deviation in this one. But cause and effect are conveniently said to be connected in three lifetimes.

    Past lives, present lives, and future lives, and not being able to stand in this life, or even at a certain stage in this life, to look at cause and effect. No matter how rich and noble you are in this life, if the spring breeze is proud, it must come from the causes of the past life, and the fruits of ripening karma. How can a certain woman and a certain man make the world despised, that is from the perspective of the world, if in terms of cause and effect, they have a deep relationship between husband and wife in their past lives, and they mature and become husband and wife in this life, there is no mistake, if not, it is not their cause and effect drama.

    Someone doesn't treat the elderly well, that's the causal continuum between them. Different causes are superimposed, bearing different fruits. At a deeper level, it is a threefold cause and effect.

    Everything in this life is the cause and effect of the ripening of the cause, and at the same time, what they do in this life will plant new causes for the future, and they will be rewarded. When the karma of this life ends, it will multiply the next ripe cause and effect and move on to another carrier body. It's like this, and it's ...... constant birth and death

  10. Anonymous users2024-02-04

    It's not the same thing, the difference is that cause and effect are simultaneous and embody one cause; Karmic consequences are sequential and are the inevitable result of karmic induction. Looking at your discussion of Yang, I must have studied Buddhism not long ago, and because of the separation of the mind, the hatred is so heavy.

    The phenomenon of Yang can be explained in this way: a person is reincarnated in the six realms, and he has accumulated a lot of good fortune in his previous life, but he has not reached the level of going to heaven and humanity, and he is reincarnated as a human being in this life. If he does not know how to cherish and squanders the good fortune of the previous life, without cultivating the good fortune, or even committing sin, he will enjoy all the good fortune in this life, and he will suffer in the next life or even fall into hell, and this is karma.

    I think you get the idea. As an aside, learning and practicing Buddhism is not only to cultivate good fortune, but also to cultivate wisdom.

  11. Anonymous users2024-02-03

    You are not devoting your heart to understanding the meaning of cause and effect, and what you are understanding now does not correspond to the real concept of cause and effect. When you understand the rules of cause and effect, you don't have the doubts you have now. It is because of this that many students of Buddhism embark on the path of learning Buddhism.

    It is recommended that you first have a general understanding of what cause and effect is, there is a book on the Internet "Mirror Theory of Cause and Effect", which has a very detailed introduction to the theory of cause and effect.

  12. Anonymous users2024-02-02

    1 Cause and effect are the laws of reason, and they are coherent. What causes (what is done) and what results (corresponding responsibility). Karma is the responsibility for what has already been done.

    2 The Buddha said that cause and effect lead to three lives, the past life, the present life, and the next life. The good and bad karma of the past life will be retributed in this life: what you do in this life (now) will be retributed in the next life (later).

    Just like farming, if you harvest melons and grow bitter melons at the same time, you will definitely have to eat bitter fruits in the future. Human legal rewards and punishments are examples of karma. Each man has a karma, and every man is rewarded, and it has nothing to do with others.

    The karma is influenced by the individual's level of ethical education and personal cultivation.

    3. Under the influence of ignorance, each person has greed, hatred, ignorance, suspicion, and evil views in his mind due to the good or bad circumstances of the outside world, and his body must take responsibility for all kinds of things he has done for them. Good is rewarded with good, and evil is rewarded with evil. Repeatedly, repeatedly, reincarnation.

    The Dharma is not profound, and it takes a considerable amount of time to learn it all in order to understand it all.

    Amitabha!

  13. Anonymous users2024-02-01

    This old thing has enjoyed glory and wealth all his life, and the blessings that should be enjoyed in the world have been enjoyed, and the sins that should be suffered have been avoided.

    Hahaha, this old thing, the good fortune accumulated by the predecessor, has not been used up yet!! It's time for him to enjoy!

    A nail of a celestial man falls on the earth, and good fortune can provide for human beings all over the world; It's like if you dry and crush a steamed bun and give it to a nest of ants to feed them for three months, this old thing is a blessing, and in a blink of an eye, there will be no future suffering; What is the future cause and effect waiting for him? An 80-year-old man who found a 28-year-old secretary and passed away with a swagger lest the world know that the apples you grow today will have to wait three years to bear fruit!

    The grain you plant today will have to wait at least half a year for the harvest to be harvested!

    You can't study today and graduate tomorrow!

    Cause and effect take time!

    If you want to grow quickly, you have to have great blessings!

    Buddha; Law; For example, Medicine Buddha has 12 great vows, Amitabha Buddha has 48 vows, and Shakyamuni Buddha has 500 vows.

    Reciting these great vows and praying that the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas will stay for a long time to purify sentient beings can accumulate immeasurable merits!

    Amitabha! Buddhism is about reincarnation.

    Look at your cynical appearance Extremely unbalanced psychologically,,, it is difficult to learn knowledge, start with gratitude, in order to calm the mind and body, Amitabha.

  14. Anonymous users2024-01-31

    If you want to know the world of the three thousand dusts, you should observe that all the laws are born by cause and cause and cause is destroyed. Dependent arising voidness, sexual voidness dependent originating.

    1.The cause of this cause and effect is the dependent arising, which has the dependent origin of good or evil in terms of the worldly truth, and everything in the context of the truth manifests itself without self-nature (unclean and impure).

    2.The karma of this karmic result is the good and bad karma that has been done, and the karma that has been done will manifest itself when the karma has matured (in this life, in the next life, etc.).

    3.Cause and effect are the truth, which pervades all directions. For example, the tenth book of the Miscellaneous Ham:

    At that time, Ananda expounded: I personally heard from the Buddha and taught Mahakaljan to say: The world is upside down and depends on the two sides, if there is and if there is not, the world takes all the realms, and the mind will calculate.

    Kajayan! If you don't take it, if you don't take it, if you don't dwell on it, if you don't count it on me, then this suffering will be born and destroyed. Kajayan!

    To be able to know oneself without doubt, without confusion, without being able to rely on him, is the right view, as it has been said. So what? Kajayan!

    Those who truthfully observe the world's gathering will not be born without seeing in the world, and if they are truthfully observing the world's destruction, they will not be born with worldly insight. Kajayan! If it comes from both sides, it is said that it is in the middle way, the so-called this has a reason for the other, this life is the reason for the other life, it is said that there is ignorance and action, and even birth, old age, sickness, death, sorrow, sorrow, annoyance, and suffering; The so-called there is no reason for this, and there is no reason for this to be extinguished, and it is said that ignorance is extinguished, and even birth, old age, sickness, death, sorrow, sorrow, annoyance, and suffering are extinguished.

    4.Karma: Plant melons and get melons, plant beans and get beans. Good karma will have good results, and bad karma will have bad results.

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