DRAWING CONCLUSIONS ON MATTERS WHICH WE DO NOT HAVE A THOROUGH UNDERSTANDING ARE CONSIDERED AS CREATING SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING AND HAS HEAVY KARMIC RAMIFICATIONS
Caller: As a Buddhist practitioner, how do we avoid drawing conclusions or stereotyping someone or some issue that we do not have a thorough understanding of? Is discussion involving another person’s past or private life considered to be an act of ‘creating something out of nothing’, and thus creating bad karma of speech?
Master Jun Hong Lu: Exactly! Karmic ramifications are equally serious for ‘creating something out of nothing’, bad karma of speech, and participating in the defamation of others.
Caller: When we are uncertain of other’s family matters and pasts, yet pass judgement that such people are good or bad, will this become…?
Master Jun Hong Lu: This is a form of attachment.
Source: Shuohua20170602 26:59, Master Jun Hong Lu’s call-in radio program
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