Illness and Harm Inside Us

Today, many people are seriously ill. Why do people become ill? Where do illness come from? The root cause is our anger. If we can calm ourselves down and stop being angry, there will be no more illness and when we learn that we will be healthy all the time.

Although there are still many people and reasons out there that can make us angry, we Buddhist call them, our karmic creditors, we do not have to be so obedient and get angry when they irritate us. If we become angry once they irritate us, then we are being fooled.

We have to know the truth. They are here to make me angry. I know that and I will not follow their will. On the contrary, I will smile at them. In this way, no one can harm me.

Who can actually harm us? Actually, we can only be harmed by ourselves, due to our own actions. If we can learn these, no matter how hard others try to irritate us, we will be impervious. If we can impervious, we will truly see through to the truth and let go of everything.

When bad causes created in the past encounter present adverse conditions, the retributions for these wrongdoings mature. However, if we refrain from committing further misdeeds, we can suppress these adverse conditions.

The bad causes still exist, but without the right conditions, they will not mature. The principles in changing destiny is based on these conditional aspects of the law of causality. Cause is what has created in the past and is unchangeable, but condition is changeable and controllable.

We reap what we sow. We can plant melon and bean seeds - these are the causes. When we do so, we will grow melons and beans - these are the fruits, the results we created. But we cannot grow beans from melon seeds or melons from bean seeds. Cause is a constant here. What we will harvest depends on the conditions.

If we would like to harvest beans, we plant the seeds for them and put away the melon seeds. For causes to come into effect, appropriate conditions are required, which are good soil, fertilizer, sun and water to grow well. Even after the seeds are planted and a cause is therefore created, we can prevent them from maturing.

We will simply withhold the water and sunlight only then the seeds will not grow, they will not mature into fruits because they did not have the right conditions.