Kamma: Live by it, Work with it

The future is yet to be. Only present moment exists and the responsibility of using the present moment for good or for ill lies with each individual.

There is no end to the result of action, no end to Kamma, so we should be very careful about our actions, so that their effect will be good.

According to the seeds that’s sown,
So is the fruit ye reap therefrom,
Doer of good will gather good,
Doer of evil, evil reaps,
Sown is the seed, and thou shalt taste the fruit thereof.
- Buddha -

What is the cause of inequalities that exist in the world? Buddhists cannot believe that this variation is the result of blind chance. Science itself is indeed all against the theory of Chance. In the world of the scientist all works in accordance with the laws of cause and effect. Neither can Buddhists believe that these inequalities of the world are due to a God-Creator.

Man himself is responsible for his own happiness and misery. He creates his own heaven and hell. He is master of his own destiny, child of his past and parent of his future.

Everything in the world in the world including man himself is dependent on conditions and without conditions nothing whatsoever can arise or enter into existence.

Man therefore has only a certain amount of free will. According to Buddhist philosophy, everything, mental or physical, arises in accordance with the laws and conditions. If it were not so, there would reign chaos and blind chance. Such a thing, however, is impossible, and if it would be otherwise, all laws of nature which modern science has discovered would be powerless.