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DHARMA IN EVERYDAY LIFE
- THE KARMA OF EVIL REJOICE
By Nhat Quan
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Rejoice is
divided into two categories: Rejoice who does evil and
rejoice who does good. You rejoice in the person who does
evil, and as a result, you receive the karmic retribution
for the evil deed. You rejoice in people who do good, and as
a result, you receive good rewards. You rejoice with the
person who does good, the same blessing as the other person
who does good. Those who do evil deeds that you rejoice in,
enjoy with them, you have received an evil mind, one day you
will do evil like them, and will surely receive the same
painful retribution as the person who did evil.
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What is
considered evil? What is considered karma?
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Evil is
doing harm, dehumanizing, and harming people but also
harming you. Bad karma is created by bad deeds. Rejoice in
bad karma can also be said that you have enjoyed the bad
karma done by others. If you want to be free from karmic
suffering, you must stay away from these types of people,
and at the same time must cultivate countless merits. If
temporarily the karma cannot be eliminated, but also creates
more karma, the sin will sink deeper and deeper. So to say
rejoice in bad karma is to create more karma. Creating more
karma is the result of rejoicing in the evil karma of
others.
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Rejoice evil
karma includes all doing all evil. For all bad things, the
retribution is very dire, so you should not rejoice in all
the sins, or mistakes.
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What is
rejoicing in evil karma?
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Like someone
gives you money and offers to do something that destroys
someone else's purity of practice, or destroys someone's
happy family life. Because of ignorance or greed for money,
if you accept to do such bad deeds, then you are a dishonest
person, and will definitely receive the results of bad
karma.
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Again,
rejoicing bad karma is doing bad deeds yourself, and then
encouraging others to do the same, that's called others
rejoicing your bad karma. Other people do bad things, you
know, so you also help them with your own strength, that's
called you rejoicing other people's karma. Thus, rejoice in
karma not only for yourself but also for others, until you
rejoice in all the karmic and bad deeds that sentient beings
in the Dharma Realm have done with a joyful mind. If you
have made this mistake, then the karmic retribution will
come to you extremely dire.
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Some
examples of joy include: You spread false rumors, causing
chaos. You spread baseless rumors. You promote, instigate,
and teach people to do things that are morally
destructive...
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If there is
a time when people practice good deeds, and rejoice, then
mankind will have moments, minutes, days, and hours of
happiness and joy, and the flame of struggle is
extinguished. Then the evil deeds of rejoicing will cause
more and more flames of struggle and hatred, and life will
become more and more tragic and chaotic, without a single
second, minute, day, or hour is peaceful.
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If there is
a good time rejoice in good things, joyful things, and happy
things. That is, seeing someone who has something good,
something happy, you are happy to generate joy as you have
done yourself and try to help others to be whole. Or seeing
others do good deeds, you are ready to join in helping with
boundless joy. Enjoying people's joy, glad to see people's
goodness, and not seeing them as different objects. That joy
breaks the gap between you and others. Sincere harmony in a
happy mind. On the contrary, evil rejoicing is quite
different. It means that when you see someone doing evil,
violent things, destroying the happiness of other people's
families, and destroying pure organizations, you are happy
to do as you do and try to encourage others to participate
as well as disturbance, and vandalism. Or seeing people
doing evil, unethical things, you are ready to join in
helping with limitless joy. Rejoice in the suffering of
others, glad to see others being harmed or destroyed.
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When you
generate the mind to do evil, you yourself have aroused
anger and delusion and put an end to the good Buddha nature.
Seeing people doing bad things, you also feel joyful to help
them, then you yourself have aroused jealousy and destroyed
Buddha's compassion. The karma of a person who generates
anger has ceased to be good, if compared with the karma of a
person who encourages evil deeds, rejoices in the evil deeds
of others, or praises or encourages others to do evil also
ceases to be benevolent. In the case of these types of
people who suffer from karmic devastation, they suffer
equally.
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Evil karma
is produced according to your evil mind, and the evildoer's
karma also increases the rejoicer's karma. Therefore, the
Buddha likened the flame of a torch, even if you bring
hundreds or thousands of other torches to the light, that
flame will not be reduced. Therefore, those who generate
small evil minds will have small karma, those who do great
and serious bad karma will have great karma, and those who
rejoice will receive the same retribution as those who do
evil. That's why the Buddha used to say:
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- People who
have anger, and delusion, create many evil things, and act
as small as a mustard seed, but the karma is as large as
Mount Sumeru.
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When you see
someone doing evil, you rejoice in helping them, which will
make that person more eager to destroy. But the more they
like to do destructive things, the more suffering the people
around them will experience. As one who rejoices in evil,
you sink deeper into sin and karma in the present and in the
future. That is not to mention the overlapping part of your
personal karma. For it is when you rejoice in his evil deeds
that he certainly has good feelings for you. You have done
the same karma as them, so they love you, that is the act of
helping each other go to hell. The job does not consume much
property and energy but gives you such terrible karma, so
you should stay away.
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Friends do
bad things, and you rejoice with them is a terrible thing.
Although it is sincere, sharing joy with each other and
friendship is attached every day, the connection between you
and the bad person is getting tighter each time because you
and the other person are already in harmony in the mind of
joy in each other's joy. The boundaries between individual
and private property are erased. But life with such evil
causes more injustice and karma for you.
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Evil
actions, through which is an attitude of contempt for high
moral people, great people, business people, and good people
in society. Because of this evil attitude, your life becomes
difficult and miserable. If you don't change this mindset
and attitude, your life will hardly be successful at
anything. It should be known that sin is also caused by joy,
approval, and praise, when seeing others do bad things or
evil deeds.
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Sins are
unwholesome things, evil things that you speak, do think
yourself, cause yourself, you create by your own body,
mouth, and mind. Sin is also caused by commanding,
instigating, instructing, showing ways for others to do, and
performing unwholesome and evil deeds. So in the
Penitentiary Rite, there is a passage that says:
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-- If you do
it yourself, if you teach others to do it, or if you see
someone else doing it and you rejoice, then sin and karmic
retribution are the same.
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Why so?
Because you do it yourself, instruct others to do it, or see
others do it and enjoy it, bad things in your mind will be
disturbed and will be tarnished, and all suffer the same
retribution and reincarnation
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Buddhism
always focuses on the mind, which is the real form, which is
not born, does not die, does not stain, is impure, does not
increase, does not decrease, but does not pay attention to
the fake appearance, the external difference of each person.
That different false appearance is just the body of seven
great births and deaths, today it is there but tomorrow it
is gone, you are borrowing it temporarily, in this life
only. Therefore, when reading the Buddhist scriptures, if
you want to understand the Dharma of immeasurable meaning,
the unsurpassed, profound, and wonderful Dharma, you should
learn through the prism of one word, which is the word:
Mind.
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Whoever can
deal with the illness of the mind, the sick body has nothing
to say. This temporary body of seven greats has a lifespan
of only a hundred years or a little more. Meanwhile, the
unborn mind of all of you has an immeasurable lifespan that
the Buddha pointed out in the sutras, but few people
understand!
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You should
know whether the sin is heavy or light depending on your
mood, mind, and nature when creating. For example, a poor
person who goes fishing to eat through the day is less
guilty than a rich, full-fledged person who goes fishing for
pleasure. Because of ignorance, people feel joy in the lives
of sentient beings! In the past, powerful people considered
killing people or killing prisoners as fun for
entertainment. Nowadays, in so-called civilized countries,
people see hunting animals as a sport, and bullfighting and
killing bulls as entertainment!
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It's
pitiful! You are enjoying blessings in civilized countries,
and trying to create karma because of ignorance. You kill a
wild animal in self-defense in a fearful situation, a lesser
crime than a child holding a tree or a whip, competing with
other children, beating a chicken, shedding its feathers,
bleeding profusely apron, to death as quickly as possible,
to receive a reward, to receive a prize, in a competition
organized by adults!
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Of course,
you intentionally kill people for personal vengeance, for
self-interest, of course, it is more sinful than murder in
madness, fear, or unconsciousness. You kill large animals
such as cattle, more serious crime than killing insects,
cockroaches, and ants. Killing people, killing big animals,
of course, you have to be intentional, use your mind, and
use more effort, so the crime is more serious. Killing
insects, cockroaches, and ants is not intentional, not fun,
because humans cannot live with these creatures, according
to the general hygiene of society, so it is less sinful.
However, finding and killing cockroaches and ants for no
reason in the field or in the street is a different story.
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So is theft.
People who steal because of poverty, have to help their
families through poverty because, for the time being, there
is no other way. A lesser crime than a person who
intentionally uses tricks uses the law to appropriate
property, steals the rights of others, and sues others for
the purpose of making money because you want to make your
life happy. get rich quickly, even though others are
suffering from bankruptcy!
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Lying to
comfort and help people who are sick, who are suffering, in
crisis, and in fear, cannot be compared with lying to
deceive others for selfishness, or self-interest, because of
hatred against people.
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It is worse
because of inferiority, self-interest, vain honor, one-sided
justice, superstition, for extremes. So there are people who
put slander to harm others, praise themselves, and criticize
others, those people are certainly not immune to the law of
cause and effect. Not escaping from the net of the sky,
though sparse but not falling, although not seen, but never
missed anyone! In Buddhism, that net in the sky is the
retribution you have to receive, for the things you have
done, said, and thought before.
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A compliment
in Buddhism is called praise or rejoicing. Rejoice of evil
karma in Buddhism is called blasphemy, also known as
Obstruction of the Holy Path. Why?
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Praise and
rejoice according to the good deeds of others, you will be
blessed and increase your blessings, sow predestined with
good karma. On the other hand, if you praise other people's
evil deeds, you yourself will be harmed, linked with bad
karma, away from the Buddha Way, and obstructed in your
practice.
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Thus, in
Samantabhadra Bodhisattva's Ten Great Vows, the fifth vow is
that it is easy to practice by rejoicing in merit, taking
the merits of others as your own. This is the gentle and
leisurely Dharma practice. For the good works of people, if
you do not rejoice, on the contrary, if you criticize, you
will lose your blessing. Meanwhile, rejoice means to
rejoice, your blessings will increase... But rejoice in
evildoers, the opposite result. Therefore, rejoicing in
merit includes doing all good and all evil. All good merits,
as well as all karmic retribution.
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The Dharma
of joy is the Dharma that rejoices with your own body,
mouth, and mind, praising the good deeds of others, and
creating your own mind to do things that make others
rejoice. This is the deed of the dharma of rejoicing. This
dharma is the most difficult of all the virtues of the
dharma of rejoicing. That's why the ancient virtues once
taught:
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- People who
praise or criticize must know, what to praise and what to
criticize.
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For example,
if you have done it yourself, see others do the same but do
not do enough, do not do it right, do not fully concentrate,
and do not achieve, you should criticize. Criticize in your
mind that you care and help, criticize in your mind that you
want to help the other person accomplish what they do,
wholeheartedly just draw the other person to know where they
have not been so that they can learn from experience to make
it better. Criticizing like that is called you know how to
criticize.
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If you know
how to criticize like that, you should make a vow. In Luong
Hoang Sam teaches:
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- Disciple's
name is... from now on, I vow for eternity, and everywhere,
if there are sentient beings who hear my voice, their minds
will be at peace, their sins will be eliminated, and they
will attain mantra, liberated samadhi, full of great
patience, and infinite eloquence entered the land of clouds
and dharmas and attained Perfect Enlightenment.
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You don't
know how to criticize because you haven't done it, you don't
understand the work, and when you hear others criticize, you
criticize it. Or you can't do it, see yourself as inferior
to other people, and generate jealousy, envy, and baseless
criticism, so you blame others for being sad and resentful.
Criticize like that, you don't know how to criticize.
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Criticizing
others is the karma of the mouth, which causes many very
serious sins. In Thuy Sam teaches you to repent:
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- Again,
from beginningless time until now, because of the karma of
talking and weaving, has created countless sins. Using sweet
words, glossy literature, distorting mistakes, doing wrong
things... or out of self-hatred, writing false statements to
accuse the enemy, making future people believe that it's
true... The immeasurable and boundless sins caused by
weaving like that. Today, I sincerely ask for repentance.
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You know
that praise is because you have done good deeds yourself,
but have not accomplished them, because your predestined
conditions are not enough, your merit is not great enough,
or your education is not profound enough. Now that you see
that other people can accomplish those things, you generate
reverence and joy, learn from, respect, and praise that
person's work, making them happy and excited, and continue
to do better than what has been done. Such praise is called
you know praise.
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If you know
such praise, then Luong Hoang Sam teaches you to make a vow:
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- Disciple's
name... from now on, vowing for eternity, with the same
everywhere, for all sentient beings the mind is always equal
as space, praise, and criticism are not moved. Enemies and
relatives are all the same, develop a broad mind, learn the
wisdom of the Buddhas, get rid of the mind of attachment to
yes, let go of the mind of clinging to emptiness, and often
follow the middle path...
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You don't
know how to praise because you haven't done it, you don't
understand it yourself, complimenting others for your own
benefit, flattering others to praise, harming others to
praise, and the tendency to praise wrong views. Regardless
of whether the actions of the person you praise are right or
wrong, good or bad. Just for your own purposes should
praise, making people not know the truth of what they do is
right or wrong. Sometimes just because of your praise,
leading them to do wrong things themselves without knowing
how to do it all the time, causing endless consequences, you
praise like that is a person who does not know how to
praise.
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Praise and
criticism are the karma of the tongue, this karma causes
many very serious sins, in the Thuy Sam Sutra it is taught
you to repent:
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- Again,
from beginningless time up to now, because of the
double-tongued karma that causes many sins; Praise in front,
criticism behind, deceitful hundred ways, to another person
to talk to this person, to one person to talk to another,
only knowing my benefit, not looking at harm to others. The
detractors to separate the king and the gods slandered and
humiliated honest people so that the king and the officials
were suspicious of each other. Father and son have
disagreements, let husband and wife separate, relatives are
separated from each other, lose gratitude to teachers and
students, cut off the way back and forth to friends...
Double-tongued karma causes such immeasurable and boundless
sins. Now, I sincerely turn to the Buddhas, Dharma, and
Saints of monks in the ten directions, all of whom are
asking for forgiveness. Here, let me tell you a story.
Storytelling:
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When the
Buddha was in Savatthi, with the monks going for alms, to
the house of the bourgeois Du Ca, his dog kept barking, at
that time the Buddha said:
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- You don't
know me, but I know you!
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Hearing
this, the dog went inside and lay still without eating or
drinking. Seeing this, bourgeois Du Ca went to the Buddha,
bowed at the Buddha's feet, and in front of the
World-Honored One spoke gentle and sympathetic words,
praising the Tathagata. Saying this, then stood aside, and
said to the Buddha:
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- Dear World
Honored One! For what reason did you come to my house?
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The Buddha
told the bourgeois Du Ca:
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- When it
was time to eat, I put on my robe and took my bowl into the
city of Savat, the order of begging, and when I got to your
house, I stood at the door. At that time, the dog Shangku
was standing in front of the door, slowly eating the food
from the copper bowl. The dog, seeing me standing at the
door, barked, I said:
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- Hey, dear
dog, because you are not enlightened, why did you bark when
you saw me?
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When the dog
Shangku heard this, he immediately got angry and went to
another place.
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At that time
the bourgeois Du Ca said to the Blessed One:
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"This dog
Shangku does not know what it was like in his previous life,
so I bowed to the Buddha to speak that to me.
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Buddha said:
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- Come on,
don't ask about this. If you hear this, you will become more
and more delusional, can't stand it.
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The
bourgeois Du Ca three times invoked the Buddha thus:
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- I hope the
Buddha explains this to me, I really want to hear it.
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At that
time, the World-Honored One said to the bourgeois Du Ca:
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- Now,
listen carefully and remember to think, I will distinguish
and explain to you. That dog is the body of Dau Ne Da, your
father. In his past life, he held onto this body. No-self
persists in thinking that it is self, is greedy, jealous,
refuses to give alms, is greedy for money, and does not
believe in the Three Jewels. Not only did he himself do evil
deeds, but he also often rejoiced and praised the evil deeds
of others, so he had to fall into the realm of animals. Now,
this Shangku dog is the father of the bourgeois
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Bourgeois Du
Ca told the World-Honored One:
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- My father
is Dau Ne Da when he was alive, he often gave alms and
worshiped heaven and earth, and ghosts. So the father and
son's body must be born in Brahma heaven, and enjoy wealth
and happiness, why did he fall into the animal kingdom? This
is hard to believe!
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The Buddha
told Bourgeois Du Ca:
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father is Dau Ne Da, because of discrimination, he persists
in mistakes, does not practice joy and equanimity, and does
not believe in the Three Jewels. He does bad things and
encourages others to do unscrupulous things, because of that
cause and condition he has to fall into the dog breed.
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The Buddha
said again:
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- Now, I
said that I'm afraid you won't believe it, so you go back
home and ask Shangku dog and you will know.
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Then
Bourgeois Du Ca greeted the Buddha and returned home. At
home, Bourgeois Du Ca said to the dog:
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- Hey
Shangku! If you really are my father, whose name is Dau Ne
Da then hey dog, sit on the throne of agarwood!
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Bourgeois Du
Ca spoke again.
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- Hey
Shangku! If you are really my father named Dau Ne Da then
come to the bronze tray and eat this meat!
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After
Shangku finished eating, Bourgeois Du Ca said:
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- If you
really are my father, whose name is Dau Ne Da, then how do
you show the weirdness?
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Then Shangku
the dog, having heard this, got up from his seat, went to
his place, sniffed the ground under the throne of agarwood
with his nose, and then with his paws he pulled out a jar,
inside which was filled with a pot of gold, trays made of
gold, and others. When Bourgeois Du Ca saw these rare
jewels, he was happy and loved these hidden things. At that
time Bourgeois Du Ca went out of Savatthi, went to the
Buddha, and took refuge in the Buddha.
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Through the
above story, you see, because of this false perception of
clinging to the body, non-self grasping is the self, being
greedy, jealous, not willing to give alms, greedy for money,
and not believing in the Three Jewels. Not only do you do
evil yourself, but you also often rejoice and praise the
evil deeds of others, so you have to fall into the animal
kingdom.
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In short,
when practicing the practice of rejoicing, you must be very
careful in the matter of praise and criticism. Praise and
criticism are one of the very difficult Dharma subjects to
practice in Buddhism. Rejoice of merit is when you know how
to do good work yourself, so how to make other people also
have the heart to follow, your work is really good. If you
praise or criticize, you have to review yourself, and what
is not correct. If that's true, then reconsider whether you
know how to praise or not. If you know, you should learn,
and if you don't, you have to be happy because of what the
other person does but do not have enough conditions to
achieve. If so, then you are practicing dharma rejoicing in
merit.
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At the same
time, you must also be aware of the karma of evil, and
should not be careless in the matter of praise and criticism
to bring karma later. You must know that the karma of evil
rejoicing is very serious, so if there is rejoicing, you
should practice good rejoicing. That is, doing good things
is a way to make people praise without harming their
blessings, not receiving karmic retribution, a method of
praising the Mahayana Dharma, and a way of praising the
Three Jewels. If you know how to praise and criticize, you
will never create evil karma of body, speech, and mind. The
three karmas are always pure, you without fear of falling
into the three evil paths, on the contrary, you still have
all the blessings and conditions to cultivate the right
results.
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