Friends:
Which Intentional
Actions (Kamma) influence Social Position?
A student once asked the Buddha:
Master Gotama, what is the cause and condition why some
human beings
are influential & prominent, while others are neglected & disrespected?
The Blessed Buddha then explained:
Here, friend, some man or woman is envious, one who is jealous, resents, and
begrudges the gains, honour, respect, reverence, salutations, fame, name and
veneration rightly received by others....
Because of intending and performing such action, at the breakup of
the
body,
right after death, such one is reborn in a state of difficulty, in a wretched
destination, in the painful purgatory, or even in the hells...
But if such one at the
breakup of the body, right after death, is not reborn
in an state of deprivation, a painful destination, the purgatory, or in the hells,
but instead comes back to the human state, then wherever such one is
reborn,
such one is not influential, unimportant, neglected & disrespected #!
These are the actions, friend, leading to future disrespect: Being envious,
being
one who is jealous, resents, &
begrudges the gains, honour, respect, reverence,
salutations, fame, name and
veneration rightly received by others....
However, friend, any man or woman, who is neither envious, jealous, resenting,
nor begrudging the gains, honour, respect, reverence, salutations, fame, name &
veneration rightly received by others,
because of intending & undertaking such
good mental action, at breakup of the body, after
death, such one reappears in
a pleasurable and happy destination,
even in one of the many divine dimensions!
But if at the breakup of the body, right after
death, such one is not reborn in
a happy destination, in the heavenly worlds,
but instead comes back to a human
state, then wherever such one reappears,
such one is influential, & respected !!!
This is the way, friend, leading to prominence & influence, namely neither being
envious, jealous, resenting, nor begrudging the gains, honour, respect,
reverence,
salutations, fame, name & veneration rightly received by others...
#: Such one escapes hell, because the evil kamma is modified by
past good!
%: Such one miss heaven, because the good kamma is modified by past evil!
Source:
The Moderate speeches of the
Buddha: The short speech on Action. MN 135
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=25072X Full Text:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sutta/majjhima/mn135a.html
For details on the mechanics
of Kamma = Intentional Action see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_is_intention.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Buddha_on_Kamma.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Good_Action_dilutes_Evil_Kamma.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_short_&_long_life.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Health_&_Sickness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Low_or_High_Birth.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Wealth_or_Poverty.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Beauty_&_Ugliness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Effect_of_kammic_Action_is_Delayed.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Power_or_Disrespect.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Evil_Kamma_enhances_other_Evil_Kamma.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Good_Action_enhances_other_Good_Kamma.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Stupidity_or_Intelligence.htm
Updated:
19 Dec 2011
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