Some people have been committing evil deeds. yet their lives are not short nor do they meet with unexpected deaths. This is because the seeds of their evil actions planted in this life have not ripened; while the seeds of their good actions planted in their past lives have ripened.
In the past, there was a man who reincarnated 7 times as a butcher. He slaughtered ans sold mutton as his livelihood. And yet this man did not fall into the 3 lower realms. It was not until his 8th reincarnation that he finally succumbed to be reborn into the lower realms. This is due to fruition of the accumulated Karmic debts of his past 7 reincarnations.
When a child is born to us we need not be too happy yet; because his coming into the world could be to repay or to collect Karmic debts."As you sow so shall you reap, It is all written in your name; Good or Bad, your Karmic debts, In the end you must claim."
To live a long life but is poor, this is because in the past one loved animal but was stingy and sinisterly.
Practice compassion- No killing is one of the 3 types of pure blessings which result from pure actions:
1) World Blessings (Filial- Piety)
2) Precepts Blessings (Taking refuge in the Triple Jewels)
3) cultivation Blessings (Practicing the bringing forth of the Bodhicitta ) If in this life we can avoid killing, save, and set lives free, and together with chanting of sutras and mantras, we can transfer the merits that accrue from such virtuous acts to the deceased, with the hope that they will someday be reborn in the pure land. Devotion such as these will result in our securing a place in one of 9 categories of Lotus.
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