People from birth, unless there is a Buddhist faith, few people will tell you, kill and create karma will be short-lived and sick. People like to say, what to eat to make up for what, how to do the fish is delicious, turtle is very complementary to the body, eat wild game great complement and so on. In order to satisfy their desire to eat, human beings have a rich imagination, eating dead animals is not addictive, they want to eat live, eat live animals are not satisfied, some people even want to eat the corpse of a child. Animals eat their own companions because of hunger, people? In order to the so-called beauty, prolong life and so on to do a lot of harm, inhumane things, which is very horrible.
Farmers are constantly adding pesticides, hormones, and other poisons to their vegetables and fruits in order to produce a better harvest and higher yields. Formalin, cyanide and so on, even the baby's milk powder is not spared, in order to get themselves some money, cannibalizing their own kind, can be said to be very unethical! Now short-changing is not too unethical, as long as you don't add all sorts of toxins to your food, people are thankful for it, and it doesn't matter if it's a few taels short, it's virtuous instead. What do farmers covet? Aren't they greedy for a few hundred more pounds of food and a few thousand more dollars of income? Rogue traders will teach them to wax and hormone vegetables and fruits, etc. to make them look better in character and brighter in color.
Starting from killing, human beings steal, are evil, and are greedy, angry, jealous, arrogant, etc. It may seem that in order to make themselves better, but in fact, with the continual creation of bad karma, those who suffer are not only the beings they victimize, but also themselves.
Everyone wants to have more wealth, so there is endless greed. For example, everyone thinks stocks will make money, and some people in Chengdu joked that they don't see the big moms dancing in the square anymore, they all go to speculate on stocks. Everyone wants to become a millionaire, multi-millionaire, the result of money lost, are poor, and began to dance, but no longer have the energy to dance, and even lost all the money, there is what the heart to dance? When everyone's greed is concentrated together, everyone can only "share the same sweet **** suffering".
The Buddhist scriptures tell us that the desire to be happy is often done in a way that is contrary to the way, so how can we be truly happy?
If you don't know how to give and take cause and effect in the cycle of reincarnation, even if you believe in the Buddha, what can you do? Still don't know what is right and what is wrong. Although on the surface are holding the rosary beads also in the chanting and holding mantras, but what to kill what to eat, anger, jealousy, arrogance, the same does not reduce. There is a disciple, after conversion, took the temple to give the amulet, vajra rope, the first time to run to Macau to gamble, but also told people, "I was converted back, surely not the same blessings. As a result, he lost a lot of money and then called me and said, "Master, why doesn't it work? Didn't I convert? Then why did I lose so badly?" I told him, "If I had converted, I would have lost. I told him, "If conversion can bless gambling, what's the point?"
Although there are times when we are blessed by the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, they are not used in this way, they are used on the right path. If we are full of devotion and compassion, of course the Buddha will bless us and fulfill our wishes in our normal needs and wants, that is undoubtedly true. However, when you use it for evil knowledge and evil thoughts, the temporary gain will make you lose more, it is not the Buddha and Bodhisattva punishing you, but your own karma is increasing, it is your own ignorance punishing yourself.
Cause and effect karma is real, and will not fail to mature just because you believe in the Buddha. Many people think that if they convert to Buddhism today, they will be healthy tomorrow, and their career will go well, and their family will be happy. Then it may suddenly seem that all this smoothness doesn't happen so quickly, why? Because the karma hasn't been washed away. After conversion, you have found a place for your heart to live, and your heart has a home from now on. You have a place to wash your heart when you want to, but it doesn't mean you've washed your heart. So, if you don't wash your own karma, the karma will mature just the same.
If you have a lot of bacteria around you, when you are strong, it doesn't do anything to you at all, but when you are weak, it immediately has an effect. Similarly, when you are blessed, evil karma has seemingly no effect on you; when you are weak, evil karma matures easily.
We have to understand that believing in Buddha is only the first step to begin to enter the Buddha's door, if you don't try to practice, karma will still hold you back, so you must repent your karma for a long time, cause and effect karma is real ah!