Karma

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Sorrow may hide behind laughter, and happiness may end in sorrow.

You harvest what you plant, whether good or bad.

Proverbs 14:13-14

Source: Life Changing Words

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Previously, in February, Singapore had provided assistance to China in the form of seed funding, as well as medicine, medical supplies, and diagnostic test kits.



China donates 500,000 surgical masks to S'pore's national stockpile
https://mothership.sg/2020/05/china-donate-mask-to-sg/

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Be Conscious of Your Intentions

When we understand that karma is based on volition, we can see the enormous responsibility we have to become conscious of the intentions, that precede our actions.

—Joseph Goldstein,“Cause and Effect”

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One of the most sadistic Chinese emperor
罗辑思维 134 恶之花
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d4eOFTk3E9U

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Why should we always have good thoughts, words and deeds and choose to do good actions only?

The Divine has given you an unbroken garland of all the good and bad you accumulated from previous lives.

Since birth, this invisible garland is worn by everyone around their neck, even though one cannot physically see this.

The fruits of whatever good or bad you may have done in your past, has come with you when you are born.

By doing a good act, you will not get an evil result and by doing a bad act, you will not accumulate good.

Whatever kind of work you do, the result will correspond to that kind of work. Therefore, from today, make up your mind to do only good things and thus you will reap, in your future lives, the benefit of good things only!

To imagine and to deceive ourselves into thinking that there is no one seeing us do a bad thing, is incorrect.

The Divine is present within your own heart and is always functioning as a witness!

- Ch 3, Summer Showers 1974.

Good Character is built through the constant practice of good actions.

Source: radiosai.org

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Planting Seeds for a Good Future

When we focus less on dodging imaginary punishments and more on planting seeds for the future with our beneficial thoughts and actions, we are on the right track.

—Mindy Newman and Kaia Fischer, “One Hundred Karmas”

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Creating Your World

According to Buddhism, there is no one in charge of the universe who distributes rewards and punishments.

We create the causes by our actions and we experience their results.

— Thubten Chodron, “What Is Karma?”

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What is the point of any spiritual exercise if karma is inevitable?

Why should one pray, meditate, contemplate on the Divine or engage in good actions, when one is anyway bound to face the consequences of one’s actions?

You may not be able to see the transformation that comes within you by your good actions and prayer. You may not even be able to visualise it with your mind. Yet, this transformation in you is sure to attract His grace.

Take the example of a bottle of pills. You may note the date of expiration mentioned on the bottle as the year 1994. You may also find the bottle and its contents intact even in the year 1999. But this does not mean that the pills will be effective if used today.

The pills may be there but they lose their power after the date of expiry. Likewise, the consequences of one’s actions are inevitable, be they good or bad, but divine grace will let their effects lapse!

- Divine Discourse, Sep 3, 1999.

Source: radiosai.org

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How Shiva Destroys Your Karma in 40 Seconds

Sadhguru describes how Shiva established the process of Bhairavi Yatana, a process which destroys lifetimes of karma in a few moments.

Source: Sadhguru

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LfJlzZgUro

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What Karma Teaches Us

Karma teaches us that every action that we take has a very pow­erful impact.

It also reminds us that the state of consciousness in which we live has a long-term impact on our own life as well as on the lives of the people around us.

—Anam Thubten, “Karma: Not Just Action”