Which Intentional
Actions (Kamma) influence Name & Fame?
A student once asked the Buddha:
Master Gotama, what is the cause and condition why some
human beings are influential and prominent,
while others are neglected, and disrespected?
The Blessed Buddha then explained:
Here, friend, some man or woman is envious,
is one who is jealous, resents, and begrudges the gains,
honour,
respect, reverence, salutations, fame, name or
veneration that is 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 and disrespected #! These are therefore the actions, friend, leading to future disrespect:
Being envious,
being one who is jealous, resents, and
begrudges the gains, honour, respect, reverence,
salutations, fame, name or veneration
that is 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 and veneration rightly received by others,
because
of intending and undertaking such advantageous 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, well respected, with a fine reputation, one
of great name and fame!
This is the way, friend, leading to prominence
and influence, namely neither being envious, jealous,
resenting, nor begrudging the gains, honour, respect,
reverence, salutations, fame, name or veneration
that is rightly received by others...
#: Such one escapes hell, because the evil
present kamma is modified by
past good!
%: Such one miss heaven, because the good present kamma is modified by past evil!
For details on the mechanics
of Kamma = Intentional Action see:
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_is_intention.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Buddha_on_Kamma.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Good_Action_dilutes_Evil_Kamma.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_short_and_long_life.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Health_and_Sickness.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Low_or_High_Birth.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Wealth_or_Poverty.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Beauty_and_Ugliness.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Effect_of_kammic_Action_is_Delayed.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Power_or_Disrespect.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Evil_Kamma_enhances_other_Evil_Kamma.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Good_Action_enhances_other_Good_Kamma.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Stupidity_or_Intelligence.htm
Source:
The Moderate speeches of the
Buddha: The short speech on Action. MN 135
http://store.pariyatti.org/Middle-Length-Discourses-of-the-Buddha_p_1543.html Full Text:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.135.nymo.html
