IF OUR BODIES EXPERIENCE KARMIC RETRIBUTIONS, HOW CAN WE MAKE SURE THAT OUR MINDS ARE NOT MANIPULATED BY THE EVIL CONSEQUENCES
Caller: When one comes across ‘3, 6, 9 predetermined calamity’, the “little black dots” on his/her body will erupt as sudden bad luck, and negative affinities and consequences will cause a kind and happy person to suffer from intense pain and misfortunes.
Is it true that one is most vulnerable when karmic obstacles erupt, because it presents an easy access for evil thoughts to penetrate? Despite knowing the landmines ahead, one will still walk into the traps due to the lack of self-awareness, which lays the conditions for new negative karmic debts to be created unceasingly.
Under such circumstances, not only is the karmic debt uneliminated, the person’s negative karma will keep proliferating in a vicious cycle, entrapping the person in the web of karma. If our bodies receive karmic retributions, how can we steer our minds away from being manipulated by the evil karmic consequences?
Master Jun Hong Lu: This will depend on your level of cultivation. Such problems will be resolved when your cultivation reaches a certain level, such as that of a Bodhisattva. Why is it so? At a high spiritual level, your mind will be free from any unwholesome words and thoughts because you are perfectly calm and peaceful. In this regard, how is it possible for you to have any retribution? What is there to be had when the negative karma has been eliminated? It’s gone.
Caller: I see. When negative karma comes to fruition, non-Buddhist practitioners will complain and become resentful. But, Buddhist practitioners, who have cultivated for some years and studied Master’s Buddhism In Plain Terms, are more likely to get over such situations – because Master has repeatedly taught us to treat adverse situations as means of repaying retribution.
Once the karmic debts are paid off, the karma is removed. When we can view this as a way for us to eliminate negative karma and let the adversity to sail through, chances are we will not create new karma. This is covered in your Buddhism In Plain Terms. Thank you, Master.
Source: Wenda20161216 26:30, Master Jun Hong Lu’s call-in radio program
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