Can we help others who suffer due to their negative Karma?
We know what is like to feel miserable and that is exactly how others can feel when they are experiencing the results of their own destructive actions.
Out of empathy and compassion, we should definitely help. Though others created the causes to experience their difficulties, maybe they also created the causes to receive help from us. We are all alike in wanting happiness and trying to avoid pain.
It does not matter whose pain or problem it is, we should try to relieve it. For example, to think "the poor are poor because of their own past lives' miserliness. I would be interfering with their karma if I tried to help", is a cruel misconception.
We should never rationalize our own laziness, apathy or smugness by misinterpreting cause and effect. Compassion and universal responsibility are important for our own spiritual development and world peace.
Out of empathy and compassion, we should definitely help. Though others created the causes to experience their difficulties, maybe they also created the causes to receive help from us. We are all alike in wanting happiness and trying to avoid pain.
It does not matter whose pain or problem it is, we should try to relieve it. For example, to think "the poor are poor because of their own past lives' miserliness. I would be interfering with their karma if I tried to help", is a cruel misconception.
We should never rationalize our own laziness, apathy or smugness by misinterpreting cause and effect. Compassion and universal responsibility are important for our own spiritual development and world peace.
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