nhes17 wrote:

Let us not think too far.
Strive for SELFLESSNESS first.
Before that a person needs to;
1.Be CONTENTED including abstains from taking things which does not belong to us.
2.Do NOT have any ATTACHMENT of any kind or person.
3.FORGIVE others, yourself and seek forgiveness from others including those who hurts you and must also be able to FORGET the past.
4.Constantly giving UNCONDITIONAL LOVE to people including those you don’t know.
5.APPRECIATIVE and offering GRAITUDE.

Selflessness is now called in the reality as MARTYRDOM.. this is something that supposed to be learned by people around us but through my experience, only some could do such.. they would just like to gain for themselves and never think about other people.. I would love to think that i'm not selfish however, i know i'm not perfect but is striving to do good to others..

The truth is, it's not easy to do these things however, like in my case, i'm open to such conditions that could give me the INNER PEACE that i wanted.

Thank you so much!

i believe in Karma too.
my dad went out to the society to work when he was very young (no education). he sent monies to his step-siblings who were abandoned by the parents due to war, leaving very little for himself. he spent a lot of time working and married only in his late 30s. when he passed away last year, my uncle told me that the one major good thing that came out of my dad's selfless contribution, is that he married a wonderful wife (through a chance meeting and matchmaking when he went overseas in search of work) ie my mum , who although has no education, was not borned in SG, but she ensured all of us (ie 4) are brought up properly and with proper education.
Is that Karma?

on a separate note, does one's profession affects Karma? ie, if one is in a life-saving profession or a profit-driven profession, will it affect one's karma?

I believe that you can relate Karma to what happened to your dad that you and your siblings are brought up by a responsible mother.. I think that's a good Karma..
About the profession, i think one should consider GOOD AND BAD INTENTIONS when it comes of choosing his/her profession because Karma goes everywhere.. It's better to choose a profession that can help you being selfless.. otherwise, your good and bad deeds in a profession also affects Karma

jiedema wrote:
I think Karma cannot be transferred but I cannot remember where I read that from.
The former maybe you can get indirect good Karma and the latter maybe indirect bad Karma.
Just my opinion.

in our bioethics subject, my professor said that a Karma can be passed to generation although he didn't use the word Karma since he's a catholic professor.
For example, he said, when you're a corrupt official, and you give the money to your children, the children can also suffer bad karma and can be reflected to the next generation.
Actually, what he said is maybe from the catholic side.. i'm not sure if it's also the same with Karma..

nhes17 wrote:
SELFLESSNESS means putting other people interests ahead of you. Also represents UNCONDITIONAL LOVE, love requiring nothing in return.
For examples;
1. When there is an argument, you CHOOSE to LOSE the argument to prevent the incident turning ugly. During heated argument; people frustrated, anger comes in, irrational, losing control, don’t accept they are wrong even though they are, some might even resort to physical harm.
2. When there is a conflict, you CHOOSE to WITHDRAW from the situation to make it more tenable. If you can forgo your ego you may PURPOSELY make yourself foolish just to make the other party feel more superior.
3. Giving something away to people who need the thing more than you.

IF you can practice doing the above, you may find yourself happier, less worry, less headache (you don’t keep grudges in your brain), you may even keep your friendship and at least you don’t have a new foe.
Everyone will be at PEACE. The world will be a better place to live.
Difficult to practice but NOT impossible to do!
If you practice selflessness, you have to GUARD against those UNREASONABLE people who are trying to take advantage of your weaknesses. You need to use your judgments to DIFFERENTIATE them. You will know about their intentions with TIME.

BUT people wonder why some people put up or participate in contentious arguments and some of the statements are quite unreasonable.
One should NOT look at matters unilaterally or on the surface only; certain actions need to be DIRECT or maybe UNREASONABLE to draw the attention of CONTRARIANS to participate in a debate for people to think and evaluate. The main INTENTION is to create AWARENESS on the subject concerned.
Certain people sarcastically pose questions on subject BUT if the INTENTION is to create AWARENESS sarcastically or correcting the INACCURATE then we should FORGIVE them for bringing up those questions so people can evaluate and understand better.
People always judge matters singularly or unilaterally; by using contrasting background or comparatively methods then the ANSWER will be much CLEARER. You can see light better when the background is dark, you don’t know your inferiority when there is an absence of superiority.
SKEPTICAL MIND WILL MAKE YOU A SKEPTIC. HAVING AN OPEN MIND WILL MAKE YOU WISER.

Just sharing my thoughts!

Everyone has the potential to be a Buddha. Whether or not they choose to take that path is another story.

NOT everyone can become BUDDHA, even Sages failed in that respect. Before reaching the level of a BUDDHA, people need to become a Sage first unless people have achieved PROLONG STAGE OF SELFLESSNESS then maybe people can bypass the level of Sage. IT IS EASY TO SAY THAN DONE.
Let us not talk about the level of Sage; people should ask themselves questions below;

Have you experience the energy rising from the base to the crown and subsequent settled at the top of your crown aka Aura, some people referred as your own spirit. What is the prominent color and size of your Aura?

Assuming you have not reached this level then ask yourself the following;
1.Do you offer APPRECIATION and GRATITUDE for those who have helped you?
2.Do you offer UNCONDITIONAL LOVE to strangers?
3.Can you FORGO your EGO when you are in the wrong?
4.Have you FORGIVE people who had hurt you before and if you do, have you FORGET those matters.
5.Can you drop your ATTACHMENT to matters or subjects?
6.Are you a CONTENTED person?
7.Have you return anything which does NOT BELONGS to you?
8.Can you be more CONSIDERATE and STOP COMPROMISING on peoples’ emotions and ignorance?
9.Have you create any AWARENESS or GOOD INTENTIONS for masses by compromising on yourself?

If majority of the above questions are NO; then it is time for you to embrace changes in your life otherwise your contrite actions may not be sufficient to avoid disaster or calamity.

Hi to All,

We are born for a reason. What we are today is for us to change our destiny. Karma is the energy of Cause and Effect. Every living beings are governed by this energy from the time of birth till death. The good or bad energy accumulated thru "intentional actions" will affect the persons current life or the next.

A good example is a child being born handicap. Why? he need to suffer in this current life. What about the parents of this handicap child? they need to suffer to look after this child in this current life. This is the extreme case. Generally when a child is born normal, he has to go thru life with the guidance and influence of his parents. During this time, whatever obstacles he encounter is the manifestation of his karma. As he grows older, able to think and control his actions he need to start repaying his karmic debts. The more a person do good deeds, the more the good star energy he will accumulate and weaken the bad star energies.

This is the reason why each of us are born differently even in twins (This stars and energy shows up in the Bazi analysis). We can change the effects of our destiny. Please read "Liao Fan's Four Lessons" and you will understand better.

There's a Buddhist saying that what you are in this life is what you have done in the previous life. And what you will be in the next life is what you do in this life.

Best Regards Always,
astroace

Gary Tan wrote:


I was told by noble monks and priests that the person will be affected in current life and not next life.
Sometimes, it happened within months as time has changed.
Have something to do with the arrival of a new era.

Gary Tan wrote:


The same noble monk said the same thing.

Hi GDuke,

Yes anything can happen. The best way for us to reduce our Karmic debts is to try to get rid of Aversion, Craving and Clinging. This is the root of all sufferings. We can try to minimise these in our daily lives by adopting the middle path. Whatever we do we must do it with a pure heart and a clear mind.

Aversion or Hatred is the effect of Anger. When we get angry, it's an acidic feeling that is burning inside us. The more we get angry the more we suffer this sensation. When we cannot control this surge of bad energy, we may do things that we may regret later.

Craving or Greed is the effect of Selfishness. We want everything from Material to Sensation well being. If we get what we want, the feeling is temporary and after the effect subside, we crave for more. If we don't get what we want, we feel disappointed or sad. These feelings are suffering too.

Clinging or Losses is suffering too. When we have what we want, Material, Status or Power, we intend not to share with others except with our loved ones. This is natural but we must think of people who are not so fortunate than us. We should practice charity and help those who needed help. When we cling on too much, we intend to get worried of the losses. Clinging to feeling or sensation is also suffering.

Karma is like the clear water in a personal container. We must try our very best to make it stay clean. When we do something bad, we are adding dirty water to it and we are inside this container. This is the reason why some people are easily affected by the bad stars or energies. The more good we do, the more we purify the water and this pure energy is our immune system.

As we do not want to get hurt, we must not harm or hurt others. Its a two way situation.

Best Regards Always,
astroace

@firehorselord

Karma is much more complex than this.It is not only about this life.
The seeds you have planted in the Alayavijnana(Eighth Consciouness) will sprout given that all the right conditions come together,regardless of whether the karma is material or not.Visit Wikipedia,search "alaya consciousness".
Why are some children born highly intelligent(and go on to excel in schools) and others mentally retarded(and go to schools for the educationally-subnormal)?Genetics?
Granted that it could be due to genetic factors,it then begs the question:Why is destiny unfair to same brand-new human beings(newborns) who have yet to start life?
Why are some babies born into multibillionaire households and others into poverty-stricken slums?
Why are many born into peace,and others into war-torn places such as Iraq and Afganistan?
The cases of "mermaid babies"and child prodigies(visit Youtube to watch the clips) have baffled intellectuals.Watch the clips carefully and see how you can explain these phenomena without believing that past lives exist.
I used to make the same mistakes,thinking that my opinions are always right and anything contrarian must be wrong.It is like the man who carefully notes the different positions of the Sun throughout a day,and then declares:
"I strongly believe the Sun goes round the Earth!"

There are many different kinds of Karma. There is good Karma, which must result in happiness, and a bad karma, which result in suffering. Everything appear through Karma, and disappears through Karma.

In my understanding on Karma, firstly we must understand what is Dependent Origin(things/event exist relationally), then only we will get some clue what is Karma about. I give one bright example, ok we know we are here because of our parents, because everything exist is exist relationally (Dependent Origin). So things just don't come/happen from nothingness. When we born, we come here to repay our debts or collect our debts from our parents. I call this as Past Karma.

After we are born, our behavior & thought(Decision) on how we treat our parents will plant a seed into ourself(Karma) and soon influence our shape of outcome(Destiny). People always ask me during Bazi consultation, why his/her parents treat him/her like this, like that. He/She so unhappy and do not understand why this happen to him/her.

There must be a reason why our relationship with our parents in happiness or sorrow condition. If you feel yourself treat them good but they treat you bad, accept it if you believe with your Past Karma. Settle the debts first.

But how if you not owe them Past Karma on past life? Then in this life, you are earning a good Merit by treating them good even they are not good to you. So now you are building your good seed. I call this Current Karma. Good Current Karma(seed) will result in good Destiny(fruit). One of the good Destiny example is your son/daughter may be beside your bed when you past away later.

We have the power and the free choice of either changing our lives for good or bad. Karma is not something "static". That was very wrong view when we trust we have no capacity/ability to change for our Destiny because of Karma. People born same year/month/day/time/place may have different result in life. Even at this moment, when you are reading this article you are doing some Karma. Now, as you go on reading you will find that your character and personality have gain some better. Thus you will start to change, and it will affect your lifestyle and how your behavior toward the world, sooner it may indirectly shape your Destiny.

If a person meets with an accident we tend to say "that is his Karma", because we believe everything is due to past. It is not correct to say everything is due to one's Karma. Yes it might be from his Past Karma. That is why every teacher who teach Destiny in astrology doesn't believe astrology is vital.

Many people always mention 一命二运三风水 (First Destiny, Second Luck, Third Feng Shui) but they always forget 四积德五读书 (Karma and Knowledge) is one of main player in our Destiny too.

There was a woman who was jealous of another's happiness. This woman plotted and lied to break up the marriage of the couple and then married the husband. The woman thought she would be as happy as the man's first wife now that she had the man as her husband and there was nothing for her to do but enjoy her life.
This happiness did not last. The woman did not know that happiness and love take much work to grow. The man became unhappy as this woman had nothing to offer - her work ended after breaking up his marriage. He realized she was a selfish and mean person and left her. The woman works and struggles to live day to day. She hates him and now blames him for ruining her life.
The man is married to his 4th wife.
The first wife found a new love and who gave her a lovely home, cars and a comfortable life.

Jackie,
You said,


nhes17,
You said,

As for the Catholic professor, that is referred to as "the sins of the father shall be visited upon the son a thousand times." This is from
Exodus 20:6, and from Deuteronomy 5:9-10 "visiting the unequities of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generations of them that hate me." (Bible)

I view Karma as what a person puts into the world, is what comes back to them

Consider these words spoken by the Lord Buddha himself:

"The karma of the sentient mind never just fades away, even in hundreds of millions of years. When the causes convene and the time is come, the consequences can do nothing but flower."

Hello Lady moon. My intention in posting is part of grounding myself. Lilian Too's Feng Shui guidance (by her book) has been an every day part of my life for several years. As one who is constantly ascending, I find it important to return to my roots with gratitude and light.

Not an intention to spam, I offer my website as an illustration of my growth over the years, of which Feng Shui has been an important part.

Please don't post links to or advertise other web sites Thank you.

Many blessings, and my thanks to all.
Roy