recently my friend asked whether the fate of a person can be changed. this question was posted on her facebook and I responded. I told her that the experiences and happenings in our lifetime ,and our environment we grew up and lived in was pre set before we were born. Each human has a huge heap of karma to settle before one need no longeler has to be born on EARTH again. For one single lifetime, we can only manage to resolve a very small portion of our karma. Ironically ignorant human somehow create more karma to be carried forward and often our own heap of karma keeps snowballing. This is why some Buddhist scriptures reveals that heavenly beings and Bodhisattvas weep when they realise large portion of human has practically no hope of leaving the Samsara.
To counter this curse, the first step is to know our fortune for this lifetime. Whats your strength and weakness, know them. Face them and admit it as part of ourselves. Put in effort to improve weak areas. It is never easy. In the face of such diffculties to overcome these, strength and character will be developed. Good angels of heaven and God delights in such human endeavours. Heavenly beings are even more pleased when they see human do good deeds with pure intention to spread compassion. The next step shall be to pray or chant mantra on daily basis. It keeps our mind centred and prevent us from drifting away to vanity and extravagance. Soon one will realise that happiness is simple and its all about simplicity and peace if mind. Think... how much do we need to eat to prevent us from hunger, how much clothing should we need to own, how large a house do we need to stay in so that we can be adequately sheltered? Why is there so much advertisements to kindle desires, human destruction of the ecosystem and so many fightings on Earth...because our human greed has no boundary. sad isn't it. In ancient china, there is a man by the name of Yuan Liao Fan who had actually managed to change his fate for the better through proper efforts and guidance. Find out more about him through internet. The next step is to invest effort and time to learn human behaviour and psychology. Need not enroll in a degree course...just simply participate in human interaction and understand their motive. Learn that 'one kind of grain feeds a whole variety of human types'. In this way we cultivate patience and endurance towards human flaws. This is also where a compassionate mind can be cultivated. Last is to know our nature and do not let it dictate our actions. In this way, less likely that we will hurt another and accumulate bad karma.
Hmm i do not 100% agree that we can all change our karmas.
ReplyDeleteThe most likely we can do is lessen the worse type of karma which we have accumulated, that is with religionous practice and consistancy.