CAUSE AND EFFECT

中文原著：隆門圓通法師
英文翻譯：張惠平
Written by Master Shih Longmen Yuantong
Translated by Huei Ping Chang

因果業律是很現實的，造做如是因，感如是之果，是必然不爽的。如果用現代計算機來計算，相信人一生善業、惡業的累積，也沒有因果報應的精確。畢竟是人算不如天算，是是非非、功功過過都離不開因果的法則。

偈云：
善似青松惡似花
若看眼前不如它
有朝一日遭霜打
只見青松不見花

平時、我們看花開得很美、賞心悅目，就為之神迷，忽略了一旁，為我們遮蔭的松樹，那滿樹的翠綠。等到有一天，寒霜降臨、冰雪紛飛，所有花卉都凋落滿地了，才發現青松昂然、不畏風寒之英姿。
人生善與惡的因果就像青松與花，大眾…是否應隨時提醒自我言行舉止，為自己語言、行為，要自己負責。（因果）…是誰也不能代替的。大眾！請守護你的身語意，精勤耕耘善福田。
阿彌陀佛 吉祥

資料來源：心靈甘露(一)，隆門圓通法師著。

CAUSE AND EFFECT
The law of karma is very realistic. Such cause as you do, so such effect shall you perceive. This is for sure. If calculated with a computer, the accumulation of both good and bad karmas will not be as precise as moral retributions. After all, man proposes but God disposes. Right and wrong, merits and faults are all under the rule of cause and effect.

Here is a verse that goes:
Good is like a green pine while bad is like a flower.
Seen at present, the pine is inferior to the flower.
But if one day both are stricken by frost,
Only the pine survives.

Ordinarily when we see the beautifully blooming flowers that warm the heart and delight the eye, we will be fascinated and ignore the green flourishing pine trees that give us shade beside us. One day, when the freezing frost strikes and the brilliant white snow floats, all flowers will fade and fall to the ground. Suddenly we find that the pine trees are upright there and are unafraid of the cold wind.

The karma of good and evil in life is like that of the pine and the flower. You should remember to behave yourself and to be responsible for what you say and do. No one can substitute your karma, so beware of your body, speech and thought and diligently cultivate the good blessing ground.

Amitabha Buddha! Auspiciousness to everybody.

Source: Sweet Dew for the Soul (Vol. I), Written by Master Shih Longmen Yuantong.