【业果 The Varieties of Karma】无记业 ethically neutral karma

业果 : 无记业

你说："我好像很多情况之下没有思。"那是什么？那就是你的无记业。这个无记业怎么来的？还是前面的等流。那么为什么有无记业呢？那个就是宿生，还是宿生。有很多人就这么痴痴呆呆地，他因地当中造了这个，果上面就是这个。或者余业未了，凡是你看看那个下等动物来的，螺蛳、蚌蛤这样，那个乌龟牠那个一合，摆在那个地方的话，三天、五天、十年、八年就在那个地方，那就是平常。那么因地当中什么呢？就是平常我们，因为我们有很多啊你说他不修行吗？他修行。说他修行吗？他又这样。他又满欢喜坐着乃至于，然后坐在那里痴痴呆呆地就打了瞌睡，自己还觉得："啊，刚才坐一下，坐得很好！"睡一觉嘛，当然好啦！在这种情况之下，错了！我这地方千千万万不是说笑话喔！我这地方特别点醒喔！

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日常师父法语📡59A 05'19" ~ 06'20" 手抄稿第八册P78 LL5

59A 05'19" ~ 06'20"  Vol 8 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P78 LL5
English Lamrim Vol 1 P240

【The Varieties of Karma】 - ethically neutral karma 

You might say, "It would seem that there are many instances when I am not thinking (composing with the mind)." What would that be?  That is  your ethically neutral karma.  Where does this  ethically neutral karma come from?  It is still the causally concordant effect from before. So why are there ethically neutral karmas?  This is from the past lives, still from the past lives.  There are many people who are foolish and dull.  This is because one created this in the causal period and now this is the effect.  Or perhaps it could be a residual retribution that has not been exhausted. If you just look at the animals with lower intelligence, river snails, mussels and clams, and also turtles, when they decide to fold [or withdraw], they could sit there for three days, five days, eight years or ten years, and it would be pretty normal.  So, what are [being planted] in the causal period?  In general, there are many people whom you can't claim that they are not cultivating. They are cultivating.  But if you say that they are cultivating, they act in this way.  He is quite happy to just sit there and perhaps to sit there dumbly, becoming drowsy.  And he would still feel that, "Ah, I have just done a sitting meditation and it was a good session!"  He slept.  So of course it was good!  This type of situation is wrong!  I am absolutely not making a joke out of this!  I am particularly  pointing this out!