The Living Journal - Karma Will Be Knocking Our Door

As it's said in Guru Puja, living beings and their environments are filled with unbelievable problems and sufferings, coming one after another like rainfall, sufferings that are the results of negative karma. Many questions raised and asked for a thousand times when one has met adverse or hostile conditions and :-

I have practiced with my devotion faithfully, Why ?
I had prayed every day, Why ?
I have chanted thousand and thousand of mantra daily,Why ?
I am on vegetarian diet and practicing compassion and loving kindness, Why ?
I do charity works and being a charitable person, Why ?
I am suffering a serious illness, Why ?
Is my practise gone wild, Why ?
Buddha or Bodhisattva are not responding to my prayers, Why?

Give up hope and lose my faith and religion completely and negative thoughts are powerful to destroy our faith and will always remind you to give up your faiths . Your fears of practice, the more you practice ,and more hostile obstacles will chase after you.

It's just like the weathers, the four seasons of Spring, summer, fall and winter will arrive naturally whether you like it or not. So whether you are practising Dharma or not , our good and negative karma will be knocking our door naturally.

For example, when you wash a dirty piece of cloth, the water becomes black with dirt. You don't see the black dirt as a negative thing since it means the cloth is getting clean. Rejoice! You should feel great joy about finishing the karma instead of seeing the negative and obstacles are something bad.

"Please grant me blessings to see my obstacles as exhausting the results of my negative karmic imprints, and bless me always transform bad conditions into the path to enlightenment."

So you may think to stay away from the spiritual path or Dharma activities, because you are afraid of your negative karma will be ripen and causing you to have many adverse obstacles, bad luck, sufferings or deadly illnesses. It means, we do not understand what Dharma is, you can think, "I'm exhausted so much of my negative karma now that I've accumulated throughout countless of my past lives.".

In the same way, when we practise Dharma, our negative karmas can be ripen causing you to get sick or unwell or obstacles, because you're purifying so much negative karma by practising Dharma. So you should rejoice when you are having difficulties in life. 

Thank you for reading, may you find peace and great bliss. With your support it helps to spread the Buddha’s precious teachings and turning the Dharma wheels in the world.

Aspiration For Bodhichitta

For those in whom the precious Bodhichitta has not arisen

May it arise and not decrease

But increase further and further.

Dedication of Merit

By this merit may we obtain omniscience then.

Having defeated the enemies wrong-doings.

May we liberate migrators from the ocean of existence.

With its stormy waves of birth, old age, sickness and death.

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