Re: The evil fruits of bad Karma

    EvilRot rote:

>"Riku Simonen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> If the Law of Karma truly exists than poor, handicapped, mentally ill
>> etc. people are just "enjoying" the evil fruits of his/her previous
>> evil action. What a disturbing thought what is hard to accept.
>>
>> Riku
>
>Dear Riku,
>
>That is a misunderstanding of karma.   It is one possibility, but I have
>heard of bodhisattvas who have chosen to complete their karma by taking on
>such a life, or who chose to appear as such to test people.
>
>But all of that completely aside, I have also seen a bit of buddhist
>scripture which says it is incorrect to try and figure out karma from that
>point of view.
>
>At the very least it is quite uncompassionate, and at the worst it could
>bring karma of its own to regard unfortunates in this way.
>
>Karma is simply cause and effect.   It isn't always necessarily bad deed for
>bad deed, like exactly an eye for an eye.    Perhaps someone else may
>explain this situation better, or better yet provide the bit of buddhist
>scripture in which it states it is unwise to try and figure out karmic past
>actions by the results.
>


    don't listen to EvilRot, Riku  --   if yer a rotten human
    being, like Evilyn Rut is, in this lifetime, yer gonna 
    be a rotten human being in the next



>--
> Evelyn
>