Here are the translations and an elaboration on each one:
The Four Laws of Karma
1. 思惟因果的总原则
Translation: The general principle of contemplating cause and effect.
Elaboration: This is the overarching concept. It stresses the importance of mindfulness about all of our actions (thoughts, words, and deeds) because they are the causes (因) that will inevitably lead to future results or effects (果). It's a reminder to live consciously.
Elaboration: This is the overarching concept. It stresses the importance of mindfulness about all of our actions (thoughts, words, and deeds) because they are the causes (因) that will inevitably lead to future results or effects (果). It's a reminder to live consciously.
2. 业决定一切的道理
Translation: The truth that karma (action/deed) determines everything.
Elaboration: This is a powerful statement about causality. It means that every experience we have—whether pleasant or painful, successful or failed—stems from a past action we performed. It emphasizes that nothing is random; our present circumstances are the fruition of our own past actions, and our future is being shaped by our present actions.
3. 业会增长广大
Translation: Karma will grow and expand greatly (or: a small cause leads to a large result).
Elaboration: This principle highlights the disproportionate growth of karmic seeds. A small virtuous or non-virtuous act can grow over time into a significant result, much like a tiny seed can grow into a massive tree. This encourages people to be meticulous even about seemingly minor actions, as their impact is never small.
4. 没有种的因绝对不会有果报
4. 没有种的因绝对不会有果报
Translation: Without planting a seed, there will absolutely be no fruit/result.
Elaboration: This is a principle of non-randomness and accountability. It guarantees that an effect cannot arise from an unrelated or non-existent cause. If you have not performed a particular action (planted the "seed"), you will not experience its resulting consequence (the "fruit"). This provides reassurance that you won't suffer a consequence you didn't create.
Elaboration: This is a principle of non-randomness and accountability. It guarantees that an effect cannot arise from an unrelated or non-existent cause. If you have not performed a particular action (planted the "seed"), you will not experience its resulting consequence (the "fruit"). This provides reassurance that you won't suffer a consequence you didn't create.
5. 已种的因一定不会不感果报
5. 已种的因一定不会不感果报
Translation: The seed that has been planted will definitely not fail to bring forth its result.
Elaboration: This emphasizes the inevitability of results. Once an action has been completed, its potential to ripen into an experience is not lost or wasted; it will eventually manifest.
This encourages people to take responsibility for their past actions while also motivating them to engage in positive actions, knowing that the good results are guaranteed.
Elaboration: This emphasizes the inevitability of results. Once an action has been completed, its potential to ripen into an experience is not lost or wasted; it will eventually manifest.
This encourages people to take responsibility for their past actions while also motivating them to engage in positive actions, knowing that the good results are guaranteed.
The image also contains some English text in the background, which is a partial quote: "If equal affection cannot be let the more loving be me." This is a famous line from the poem "The More Loving One" by W. H. Auden.
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