You are responsible for your own actions

You are the source
Of all purity and impurity.
No one purifies another.
~Buddha

In Buddhism, no one can take away your sin.
If you touch the fire, you will get burned.
If you study, you will do well on the exam.
If you kill someone, you will get arrested and go to jail.
Everyone is responsible for his/her own actions… ~Jendhamuni

 

Comments

  1. Ghazi Riman

    January 29, 2013

    Great +Jendhamuni Sos you remember my old lotus flower i had some correction on  now its brighter and glower as real lotus looks:)

  2. Charles van Dijk

    January 29, 2013

    The law of stimulus, response and consequence. Just noting what we have in common.These three are always interconnected and can't exist without the others. Take away a stimulus and you also take away a consequence but some people in the gun-lobby still argue against this logic.

  3. Keith Charles

    January 29, 2013

    I believe in the law of karma, yes, but also believe in the grace of an enlightened being to help us through the rough spots where we need a little help….

  4. Jendhamuni Sos

    January 29, 2013

    +Keith Charles The Enlightened One can only shows us the path to follow. They can say, "Take this path, it's safer, don't take this path, it's dangerous."

  5. Jendhamuni Sos

    January 29, 2013

    +Charles van Dijk Buddhism makes so much sense when we pay very close attention to the teaching. There is no such thing as a special reward for the wrong -doers. It works almost like in court. Well the good court.

  6. Charles van Dijk

    January 29, 2013

    +Jendhamuni Sos there are natural consequences and man made consequences. Man made consequences are found wanting lots of times. Have a nice day and I get off my soap-box. :-))

  7. Jendhamuni Sos

    January 29, 2013

    Thanks +Charles van Dijk Since my connection is back up now, I can visit you page again. I caught up with a lot of work this week, so I have a little more time to relax.

  8. Mark Moshchinsky

    January 29, 2013

    +Jendhamuni Sos Doing a good deed or opposite of the bad one could erase or diminish your bad karma. Don't you think ?
    Samadhi burns lots of Karmic debt too.

  9. Jendhamuni Sos

    January 29, 2013

    When study Buddhism (for beginners) we learn about the law of karma for so many years until we understand really well +Mark Moshchinsky Karma can be compare to a dog and a rabit. Who's faster. Can the bad karma chase a good karma?

  10. Mark Moshchinsky

    January 29, 2013

    +Jendhamuni Sos the scale can be balanced, right. ?
    Swami Sivananda said that (forgot which Samadhi) the highest one burns all the Karmas.

    May be recorded event can not go away, but the negativity of it can.  If you look at Yin Yang symbol it is balanced, so when it is upset you can balance it just like the scale.

    Karma is energy of action, sort of. So if positive and negative are equal and two dogs run with equal strength in same direction one will overlay the other.   

  11. Jendhamuni Sos

    January 29, 2013

    You don't want the scale to be balanced +Mark Moshchinsky We want the good karma to weight more. Same as the chasing. We don't want the bad karma to catch up with good one. We want them to be far away from each other.

  12. Mark Moshchinsky

    January 29, 2013

    +Jendhamuni Sos That is my intuitive knowledge. You must have studied more than I did.
    I just trust my intuition and experience.  I am sure we will agree that  doing good deed is good for your Karma, no matter how you look at it.

  13. Jendhamuni Sos

    January 29, 2013

    That way we can live a more peaceful life. If good and bad are balance, we are in trouble. I.e. one day we face happiness as the result of good karma, the next day, we face sorrow, or danger, as the result of bad karma. Hope I didn't confuse you +Mark Moshchinsky

  14. Mark Moshchinsky

    January 29, 2013

    +Jendhamuni Sos I agree completely, but that is a different topic.
    If I push on your body, you may tilt to the side, but if you push back with equal force we are stable.  So the force is contained or neutralized.

  15. Mark Moshchinsky

    January 29, 2013

    +Jendhamuni Sos  When a Hindu man killed a little Indian boy and came to Gandhi seeking advice. Gandhi told that man to adapt another Indian boy and raise him well.  (It was in a movie don't know if that what happened, must have).

  16. Mark Moshchinsky

    January 29, 2013

    +Jendhamuni Sos  Well, I guess it is not so important for what you are forgiven for in this life. But more important to do "the right thing"

  17. Jendhamuni Sos

    January 29, 2013

    Yes, forgiven plays a big role also. If you don't forgive, you are still clinging to that object, and very hard to practice peace and good deed because the revenge, hatred, etc. is still inside us. Forgiven is already a good deed. Big bonus right there +Mark Moshchinsky

  18. Randy Neufeldt

    January 29, 2013

    No one purifies another……… I was raised a Christian so this wisdom really set me to thinking. I suppose it's somewhat naive to hope that everyone would respect themselves and each other. I'm having a tough time writing my thoughts. I'm going to look for some clarity on this idea 🙂

  19. Osvaldo de Aguiar

    January 29, 2013

    Você é o(a) dono(a) do seu próprio destino e felicidade. Você é o resultado de suas próprias ações e reações. Tens o lívre arbítrio e responderá por todas as suas atitudes.

  20. Mark Moshchinsky

    January 29, 2013

    +Jendhamuni Sos "Forgiven" – here I meant by  Karmic Laws, not human.

    Yes,  to forgive is a great and powerful thing. Not easy to do for deep pains caused, though.  Only highly evolved people  can forgive serious insults and crimes, like your guru.

  21. Charles van Dijk

    January 29, 2013

    One last question +Jendhamuni Sos who must do the forgiving in the Buddhist religion, the victim or the spiritual leader. In the Catholic religion the priest can forgive somebody in the confession box but the opinion of the victim doesn't count apart from counselling. Example the victims of sexual abuse.

  22. Jendhamuni Sos

    January 29, 2013

    +Charles van Dijk For Buddhist monks: The monk  who  made some mistake will do the confessing in front of other monks or the spiritual leader. No one forgives actually, they only confess, that they did this and that, so the spiritual leader only listen and tell them not to repeat the mistake. Forgiving has no role here. Forgiving is more like a personal problem, like my holocaust story, where I forgive those who killed my relatives: This does not mean the killers will escape the jail or hell, only escape from my hatred and revenge.

  23. Mark Moshchinsky

    January 29, 2013

    +Jendhamuni Sos That makes a lot of cense.

     Forgive and bagage leaves your shoulders. (if truly forgiven) .
     It is one thing to say it because it is cool or the right thing to do, but to truly forgive in most people on attempts will cause feelings of anger and anxiety and so on. 

    It takes time and practice and some times, a bit  here and there and one day at a time.

  24. Disai Sallu

    January 29, 2013

    Good morning….my friends……

    Have a nice day to you…..

  25. Ahmed Marabeh

    January 29, 2013

    haha lol, im learning about buddhism in history right now.

  26. Dave Lavis

    January 30, 2013

    I meditated on this text this morning, Thankfully I have a lot of forgiveness in my heart….

  27. Sivakumar Rajagopalan

    January 30, 2013

    purity and impurity within us and we are responsible ok.
    but some one needed to kindle and bring it out.

  28. Reg Dawn

    January 30, 2013

    Thank you my dear Jendhamuni for beautiful words and photo.

  29. George Kamanga

    January 31, 2013

    but the bible answers questions like, what is the purpose of life? what
    happens when we die? will we ever meet our dead loved ones again?
    why can we rely on the bible-because the bible is historically and
    scientifically accurate……… i can prove that to you if you want me to.

  30. p.swarna kumar

    February 1, 2013

    yes….dearest jendhamuni..

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