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To all or none,

Here is an url by Thubten Dhondrub on Karma.
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odlZDiez0xU[url]

This monk has a softness in his speach that makes you easily understand what for some would be complicated if explained by another.
Other texts will follow on the subject.

loong
learning

To one and all,

I open my e-mails and there is one by Banthe on Karma:

Friends:

Which Intentional Actions (Kamma) influence Social Position?



A student once asked the Buddha:
Master Gotama, what is the cause and condition why some human beings
are influential and prominent, while others are neglected and disrespected?

The Blessed Buddha then explained:
Here, friend, some man or woman is envious, is one who is jealous, resents, and
begrudges the gains, honour, respect, reverence, salutations, fame, name or
veneration that is rightly received by others...
Because of intending and performing such action, at the breakup of the body,
right after death, such one is reborn in a state of difficulty, in a wretched
destination, in the painful purgatory, or even in the hells...
But if such one at the breakup of the body, right after death, is not reborn
in an state of deprivation, a painful destination, the purgatory, or in the hells,
but instead comes back to the human state, then wherever such one is reborn,
such one is not influential, unimportant, neglected and disrespected #!
These are the actions, friend, leading to future disrespect: Being envious, being
one who is jealous, resents, and begrudges the gains, honour, respect, reverence,
salutations, fame, name or veneration that is rightly received by others...
However, friend, any man or woman, who is neither envious, jealous, resenting,
nor begrudging the gains, honour, respect, reverence, salutations, fame, name and
veneration rightly received by others, because of intending and undertaking such
good mental action, at breakup of the body, after death, such one reappears in
a pleasurable and happy destination, even in one of the many divine dimensions!
But if at the breakup of the body, right after death, such one is not reborn in
a happy destination, in the heavenly worlds, but instead comes back to a human
state, then wherever such one reappears, such one is influential, and respected !!!
This is the way, friend, leading to prominence and influence, namely neither being
envious, jealous, resenting, nor begrudging the gains, honour, respect, reverence,
salutations, fame, name or veneration that is rightly received by others...

#: Such one escapes hell, because the evil present kamma is modified by past good!
%: Such one miss heaven, because the good present kamma is modified by past evil!

loong the messenger

To all or none,
Just finished listening for 20 odd minutes the video on Kamma/Karma,that I had written 2 posts ago,giving you an url.
To my surprise,everything said concorded with my view on Karma.
The cleansing ,the repetitions,the searching.
Every thing.

Please make yourself a gift ,and listen to the video.It is only twenty odd minutes of your life.
This video may totally change your present and future life.

A happy
Loong
Mahayana

To all or none,
Just finished listening for 20 odd minutes the video on Kamma/Karma,that I had written 2 posts ago,giving you an url.
To my surprise,everything said concorded with my view on Karma.
The cleansing ,the repetitions,the searching.
Every thing.

Please make yourself a gift ,and listen to the video.It is only twenty odd minutes of your life.
This video may totally change your present and future life.

A happy
Loong
Mahayana

To all or none,
The word Karma is getting more and more spoken off.Today I was in a Van Houtte coffee shop where they had little advertisement,saying:Buying this coffe will bring yyou good Karma
because it comes from a co-op in a third world country.

Alteady lost the advertisement,man what a damaged brain.

loong
the damaged human.

To all or none,

For the last 2 days,afriend has reintered my world.I was surprised to hear speak of buddhism.This man used to be a big drug traffiquer.He has been kind of hiding for about 8 tears now,
having a $ 25,000. contract on him.
His father died recently.All the things his father promised him were stolen from him ,by his sister.I can't tell him it's his karma,for doing bad things in the past.Today was our second afternoon together,and he said that he had not felt this good,since his sister,took everything away from him.

All I do is listen to his rage and try to direct him to the white side,He made an offer 2 days ago th his sister,if she refuses,a lot of bad things will happen to his sister and family.

I tryed to tell him to go to a layer first.She, for stealing everything will have to live the according Karma,and he is living his the Karma from the past.

There is no way to escape Karma.

loong

To all or none,

This afternoon ,I was with a friend that ,spirituality,is not his forte.He is a ,hard to define, used to be a big dope dealer and has been hiding with the our Feds,sort of protection.

We were speaking about the sentences ,the 2 persons that stabbed me.He said they may get only 6 months even if the criminal code
says they can get up to 14 years for stabbing me.I said ,if they only get 6 months for all the suffering ,physical specially mental,I don't know how I will react.

He says: Norm ,your karma that you always talk about may be in
the future.These kids if they get out with a small sentence,will
first be mistreated inside.6 months is long when you get raped every nite.If it does not happen this way,outside ,one day they will meet people crazyer than them.

Imagine ,a guy like that straightening my line.Buddha uses all
the tools needed so that his Dharma ,be understood.

I thanked my friend.

Everything,everyone in the Universe is intertwined,got another proof today.

Read ,today, Buddha saying don't push anger away,use it's energy to strenghten your Mindfulness.

loong

Yes, and bottom line, do you think these beings (who stabbed you) are happy? Of course not. So they are already reaping their karma. Have you done metta practice towards them yet?

Dear Teacher,

I was stabbed on April 17th at 7.12 at nite.The first thing that sprung in my mind when I woke up was to pardon them and I sent them Compassion thoughts.

Still as I write this, there is no anger,resentment towards them.
You have no Idea of the suffering I have gone through in the last 3 months,Mentally,and specially Physicly.It seems that I have suffered some sort of after stabbing side effect.Where they put the drain to empty my lungs,a hose of about 3/4 of an inch,
as I write to you hurts .It might last a year or two.

So maintaining metta and karuna thoughts for these two kids ,makes me a better buddhist,my suffering being nothing compared to the sufferings of the Tibetans.

Thank you my Teacher

loong
Mahayana

To all or none,

I wonder what is the Karma.for killing an innocent woman of 74?

loong,just wondering