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Understand that things don't get better, we must get better. Volitional or intentional actions generate their effects, even though you may not see them immediately.  If you don't have an action today, there won't be an effect. But natural forces like winds and tides do create effects that have nothing to do with what you do.  They are not your intentions, so do things that you do unconsciously or without intention.   It's not what happened but what you do to what happened that makes the difference.  We can always choose to react or respond to what happened.  Know that our actions will have an effect. Like I responded to the strong winds by wearing more clothes, it definitely have effect on my health.   The above is what we called Law of Cause and Effect, commonly known as Karma.   Karma invites us to take responsibility for our own behaviour .  Our behaviour s tarts with our thoughts . So pay close attention to your thoughts, speech and action - above all,

Following my previous article on Karma and You, the following are the 7 truths to further our understanding.  One: Karma means act or deed Karma simply  means action or deed and not retribution or effect. The effect of action is called karmic effects or 'vipaka' as in the original Pali language.  Two: The law of karma is the law of cause and effect This law states that an action will always have an effect or we reap what we sow.  Every action that we perform in life, every word we speak, even every thought that we think, has its reaction.   Like now you are thinking of where to go for lunch tomorrow, you will create an action the next day (looking for a restaurant) and this will definitely have an effect.  Three: Karma can be strong, weak or moderate.  A strong karma (action) will produce a strong outcome.  Notice that action includes behaviour, speech and thought, and the strength of these 3 elements will influence the effect of your karma.  Like you have a s

Mention the word 'Karma' and many would think this has to do with religion or superstition.  Some even equate karma as retribution.  Like Microsoft's CEO said 'it is bad karma for a staff to ask for a salary raise'.   The dictionary defines 'Karma' simply as 'action'.  So when we say 'bad karma', it is simply 'bad action'.  Because every action will have an effect, bad action will lead to bad outcome or effect.  Note that the effect may not be immediate, direct or even obvious .  For example, if you take in dirty food, you may get food poisoning, but it may be delayed, indirect (you get headache instead of stomach ache) or non-obvious (you may think your stomach upset is caused by water and not the food you take). Also other factors are at play, like how strong your body is.  Nevertheless, karma affects everything in life, whether you know it or not is irrelevant.  The 7 elements of karma are: Size : the bigger the action, t

As we know, nothing happens by itself and everything has a cause and an effect.  This causality is also explained as Dependent Origination, which means that something is always depending on something else, and without the origin of something, something will not happen .   The reason is nothing is absolute or permanent.  Everything is relative and impermanent.  Nothing exists on its own, but arises from something else.  Things continue to exist and transform owing to the coming together and dissolution of factors .  This natural law can be simply stated as:  When A arises, B comes to be.   When A does not arise, B does does not come to be. Similarly, when A ceases to arise, B ceases to come to be. In short,  without A, there is no  B.  With A, there is B.  For example, this blog arises because I attended a talk by Justin Fong in April 2013 and was advised by him to start writing regularly.    As you can see, there is constant dynamism in things .  Understand that there are mul

Among all natural laws (i.e. not man-made laws but laws governing all nature), the Law of Action and Reaction is the most prevalent. This is also called the law of Cause and Effect, or Karma to some people. Simply put, for every action, there will be a reaction. That's why good beget good and bad beget bad.  But the point to note that there is no direct relationship between cause and effect , i.e. you cannot pinpoint a particular action and say for sure that it will precisely lead to another action.  Also, results do not arise in the order in which their causative actions have taken place . What this means is that other causative factors also come into play and often it is their combined effect that determines the result . A single cause cannot produce a result, much less many results, nor can many causes produce just one result. How does it apply to training then?  From my over 17 year of training (including part-time 1996-2001 before becoming full time since May 2001 till