Karma

Posted by iN tHe BlOg



It just came to my mind... the most common thing that we all do in our daily lives... Refilling toilet paper. Yup, you have not read wrongly at all. Is refilling toilet paper! What does it got to do with karma??



Simple explanation of karma: the result of a person's actions as well as the actions themselves. Which means is the cycle of cause and effect. According to the theory of Karma, what happens to a person, happens because they caused it with their actions. Karma is about all that a person has done, is doing and will do. Karma is not about punishment or reward. It makes a person resposible for their own life, and how they treat other people.



How often you are the last to used up the toilet paper? Do you always refill it? Or do you just hope that maybe the next person who comes it will do the refilling job for you?



Of course, sometimes I fall in the second scenario: hoping someone can do the job for me. Well, that's human nature.. And this is where I meant karma comes into the picture. When you are hoping that things will not come back to you, it will. I always 'think' someone in the family will do that simple job for me....... But it was always me who don't why ended in the toilet the next day with no toilet paper. (And that was me who just want to avoid the hassle of refilling the toilet paper).



Maybe it is just simple things happening. But it can reflect to reality..... Karma. Looking back at real life situation, a father who abused the child since the child was young. Slowly, the little child grew up, abused his own child and maybe even his father who used to abuse him when he was young. Get the picture? Sound similar like the toilet paper scenario?



Things that we often do, and yet we don't know it has been telling us 'We are what we do'. Or maybe our subconscious mind just choose not to notice it. In the end, whatever we do, remember karma does happen and it will always happen back to you despite whether is it a small little thing or ........
Translation of the above chinese verse:
As one sows, so
shall one reap. Every effect arises from a cause. Under certain conditions, a
cause will come to an effect. This is a universal principle, on which Buddhist
morality is based.
Here's a verse.
If you want to know the causes in your past life,
The way you live at present is the effect of your past life.
If you want to know what your future life will be,
What you do at present is the cause of your future life.

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