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Why is there a saying that "a good person will live for thousands of years without a long life"?

My sister-in-law's negative emotions have reached its peak recently, and her sad expression has made her face full of wrinkles.Her daughter, my niece, was 33 years old, unable to jump off the building due to leukemia.The child who is as beautiful as a flower, just gave up his relatives cruelly.

My sister-in-law came to the hospital to visit her brother (my husband), and when she entered the door, she started to complain about the world: "Why are good people suffering many hardships, bad people being free and carefree? You often talk about cause and effect, where is the cause and effect?Look at the traitors and bad people around you, plotting against others everywhere, fanning the flames, but living happily and moist, having a happy and moisturized life, eating well and drinking well, and having a great health. Why are they not retribution?It’s really 'A good person doesn’t live long, but it will last for thousands of years'!

My daughter is such a good girl, a person who is afraid of killing a chicken, passed away early.My brother is such an upright person. He has grown up to be upright in the hall, hates evil and is in an orderly manner. He is a recognized good person in everyone's eyes. How come he gets cancer?I really don’t understand why good people are not rewarded?You have also learned Buddhism, chanting scriptures, worshiping Buddha, releasing animals, and offering sacrifices. The Buddhas and Bodhisattvas have not helped you avoid disasters and difficulties.How can this be reasonable!”

My sister-in-law's words indeed represent the thoughts of many people in society. Once she discovers that "good and evil people" have not presented the corresponding consequences immediately, she begins to doubt cause and effect, and even believes that there is no cause and effect in the world at all.After the idea of "good people don't live long, and they will be left with disaster for thousands of years", they began to complain about God's unfairness, and they did not believe in the truth that cause and effect were not ignorant. Not only did they not believe in themselves, they also bewitch others from not believing in cause and effect. This knowledge and view are not only wrong but also evil.

Turning around, analyze a question: Is the statement that "a good person does not live long, and the disaster will last for thousands of years" correct?Is there any retribution for good and evil?

To understand these issues, we must understand the principle of cause and effect in the three lives: the causes of the past, the results of the present;The cause of the present is the result of the future.There is an inevitable causal relationship between the past, present and future lives."Good will be rewarded with good, and evil will be rewarded with evil" is an ironclad rule, but the reward of good and evil does not necessarily appear immediately after people do good or do evil, but will go through a process, which is called the ripening of causes and conditions.

This also explains why the cause of the present does not present the consequences immediately.You can imagine that if a thorn in the ground is planted, watered and irrigated, and bathed in the sun, rain and dew, it will take a certain amount of time and certain causes and conditions to bear fruit.Of course, there are also great traitors who do all the bad things and quickly mature the cause and condition, and will be punished by law in this life, ending their sinful life.

Everything and everything are inseparable from cause and effect. All things in the world are formed by the combination of causes and conditions. Every person you encounter in your life and everything you encounter have its corresponding cause and effect.

Some bad people are still enjoying happiness now, which is also a relationship of cause and effect. It is precisely the good cause he planted in his past lives and the good result he enjoys now. However, this kind of enjoyment is just a dream, changing impermanently anytime and anywhere.And the evil causes he sowed in this life will definitely bear bad consequences at some point in the future.Cause and effect are like shadows, and there will be no mistake at all!

The so-called good people in the eyes of people in this life may have eaten and killed indiscriminately in the past, causing countless sentient beings to suffer endless pain. Even if they become good people in this life, shouldn’t the cause and effect of the past be repaid?In this life alone, I don’t know how many living lives have been harmed!

When we feel unfair, do we know that those sentient beings who are hurt by us are also crying out grievances. Some say: This person is too cruel, and he peels me torn apart, heartbreaking, and I want to take revenge;Some say: He is simply a devil, he shaves me and eats thousands of children in my stomach, and I want to take revenge;Some others said: He killed my whole family with a pack of rat poison, and I also want to take revenge... When will the revenge be revenge?

This is the sin that the so-called "good people" once committed intentionally or unintentionally. Should those sentient beings who are hurt by "good people" die?Will these causes and effects not mature?

If you have no worries about cause and effect, can you avoid these sins by reciting some scriptures and doing some good deeds?Practice is merit, and mistakes are faults. These will not be eliminated in one stroke and will be offset by merits and demerits.In front of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, all sentient beings are equal.Buddhas and Bodhisattvas will think of all their strength to save the sentient beings and achieve liberation, so that the sentient beings will be saints before they can easily repay the consequences.The key is, have we learned devoutly from Buddhas and Bodhisattvas?

“All evil karmas committed in the past are caused by greed, anger and ignorance.I repent of everything from the body, speech and mind."Since we know the principle of cause and effect in the three lives, we repent of our past evil karma, and start planting good causes and bringing good results from the present, "Don't do any evil, and do all good."

In "The Great Seal of Liberation", Namo Qiang Buddha said: "...The reason is that I am greedy, anger, ignorance, and harming life. Therefore, I must escape from this terrible horror. Now the only way out is to diligently practice the mind and practice, strictly observe the precepts, develop the true bodhicitta, practice the true Dharma, practice all good deeds, body, speech and mind, and do all good deeds, and do all good deeds, and do not do all evil deeds, big evil or small evil, and never get involved. I know that cause and effect is not ignorant, and believe in cause and effect..."

Cause and effect are fair and unbiased, and will not protect anyone.Good will be rewarded, and evil will be rewarded. It is not that you will not be rewarded. The time has not arrived and the time has come, you will definitely be rewarded.Don’t be confused by the fact that “good people don’t live long, and they will be harmed for thousands of years”. That is because people who do not understand cause and effect spread rumors, and do not know how many sentient beings they have harmed.Believe in cause and effect clearly and practice well, and change the cause and effect in practice, which is the weather vane of right view.

2024-02-05 18:02
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