Reading the above description of karma seems to reflect that the man must be resigned and accept the circumstances of his life. On the one hand it reflects that reality, but in an optimistic viewpoint, it should not be so. As a worldly man [prthagjana / puthujjana], it is very difficult for us to be completely free from good or bad deeds.
Do We Have to Resign To Karma?
Subha's youth confronts the Buddha to ask for real differences among mankind, " What is the reason and why, o Master, we meet among the humans there are short-lived and long-lived, diseased and healthy, ugly and beautiful, unaffected and influential, poor and rich, despicable and noble, witless and wise. "
The Buddha said: " All living things have karma as their own, their inheritance, for their beginning, their relatives, their protectors, it is Karma that distinguishes living beings in a state of low or high." (Majjhima Nikaya, Cullakammavibhanga Sutta, 135)
Reading the above description of karma seems to reflect that the man must be resigned and accept the circumstances of his life. On the one hand it reflects that reality, but in an optimistic viewpoint, it should not be so. As a worldly man [prthagjana / puthujjana], it is very difficult for us to be completely free from good or bad deeds. Although we are the masters of our own karma but it is evident that …
