tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1012277645322483593.post1594247160746001866..comments2024-03-27T23:37:20.556-07:00Comments on dhamma musings: Kamma and Natural Disasters IShravasti Dhammikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06246408068143301108noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1012277645322483593.post-22017629351154588152010-01-14T10:26:25.702-08:002010-01-14T10:26:25.702-08:00Thank you very much for what you wrote here. I am...Thank you very much for what you wrote here. I am grateful for the things you said, and will take them to heart. This is wisdom: I cannot stop an earthquake, I cannot stop a snowstorm, but I can choose how I react to what is happening in the world as a whole, and in my own little world.A Glass Rosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12468652215512772048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1012277645322483593.post-75926655389845379232008-07-19T12:47:00.000-07:002008-07-19T12:47:00.000-07:00Dear Venerable,just today I read your posting on k...Dear Venerable,<BR/><BR/>just today I read your posting on kamma and natural disaster and was quite glad to clarify something I was not able to explain myself. Since I believe there are lot of people like me, I translated your text and posted at my Buddhist website<BR/>http://www.yu-budizam.com/lib/cunami.html<BR/><BR/>I hope you don't mind :)Brankohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13229092332643242333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1012277645322483593.post-53234040266366625212008-06-02T13:25:00.000-07:002008-06-02T13:25:00.000-07:00I really like what you have written and I totally ...I really like what you have written and I totally agree with about how we react to certain situation is the key to determine our karma. However, I still believe that as a law of cause and effect. Every action we have done (unless we have done it by no intention or a neutral state) would give fruit at present or in the future. I think the reason that a group of people are suffering together is because they all have collective karmas that they have committed. Some are born in the war-torn country or some live in the same disastrous area. It’s hard to believe for me that some natural disasters happen in some area but not another, and why they are all born in those hard hit by natural disasters like Africa, Bangladesh or those countries that were affected by Tsunami but not Europe or America? Or why, if we observe, natural disasters often happen in the already poor countries. Are their own karma? From what you explained “the suffering we sometimes experience can be due to kamma but it could also be due to sickness, to weather, to carelessness or to external agents (opakkamikani)” for carelessness cause, we can explain it as a present karma that when you are careless about something, the bad thing might happen like our health or accident. <BR/><BR/>Just my thought.lllhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05866520828961942146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1012277645322483593.post-73997088849625140432008-05-31T23:27:00.000-07:002008-05-31T23:27:00.000-07:00Such simple truths, explored not simplistically bu...Such simple truths, explored not simplistically but with sympathy and depth. Thank you. Dbdesertboothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02961244399161878817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1012277645322483593.post-28657267293610643452008-05-31T15:38:00.000-07:002008-05-31T15:38:00.000-07:00Dear Venerable, Thanks for posting this. I have tr...Dear Venerable, <BR/>Thanks for posting this. <BR/>I have tried explaining these things to many people both in the past and recently.<BR/>There's really nothing more morally repugnant than blaming the victims for what has happened to them. <BR/>I really hope that many people will read and understand the Buddha's true teaching on this matter.Anandajotihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11976447022896538872noreply@blogger.com