【 Cultivating Ethical Behaviour 业果】The negative karma is not given to you by others 恶业不是别人给的

【Cultivating Ethical Behaviour】-The negative karma is not given to you by others

Therefore , we should thoroughly contemplate on it. It was said earlier that, "this is a very obscure subject". It is not something readily seen. What manifests in our minds presently? They are all afflictions. So we must strive to practise, to purify and confess these afflictions. Only then will you be okay. Hence we need to understand this is much like the iron getting rusty. The rust does not surface by external sources. The rust emerges from the iron itself. After producing the rust, the iron rots itself. We are just like the iron. The negative karma is not given to you by others. Others do not have the ability to harm you. These are still [the results of] what we have created. So we should by look to see if we have done them or not. These are issuance from the karma that we have created. The

scripture tells us this in many ways The scriptures have clearly and plainly stated this.

SOURCE 来源 :

62B 07’32” Vol 8 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P203 L4
English Lamrim Vol 1 P251

日常师父法语📡62B 07’32” 手抄稿第8册P203 L4

业果 : 恶业不是别人给的

所以在这里我们一定要好好地思惟，因为这个绝对不是—前面说是“极不现事”，它不是那么眼前很明白让你看得见的。我们眼前心理现行的是什么？都是烦恼。所以我们一定要努力地修行，把这个烦恼把它净除、忏悔，那个时候才可以。所以我们现在要了解，这件事情像铁生锈一样，对不起，铁生锈不是外来的，它还是铁自己生的，生完了以后呢，自己把那个铁烂掉了。喏，就是我们这样，这个恶业不是别人给你的，别人没办法害你，还是我们自己造的。所以我们自己看看做了没有做，唉呀，这个都是我们自己造的业所感得的啊，经上面处处地方这样告诉我们。