Karma, the forever energy
August 8, 2008
I have been riding bike a lot recently. I really enjoy the thrill of the breeze lashing my face and body, not to mention that I am doing a great favor for the environment and my shallow pocket. When it becomes a routine exercise, it is actually giving me a double favor-good health and saving money. Anyway, I love riding my, actually David’s, $100 mountain bike. I have been thinking of getting a used one myself from the flea market, but thinking of our crammed garage, my buying impulse usually abates.
Everybody was shocked by recent gruesome decapitation of a greyhound bus passenger by a mad Chinese man. It was a rare case in Canadian history, you know, a innocent passenger got stabbed and decapitated while sleeping on the greyhound bus on his way back to Manitoba. How could such an incident happened between two strangers without any provocation of any sort? According to Buddhist’s explanation, it is the past karma between two of them that resulted in such a brutal kill. We never know what we had done terribly wrong in the past lives, but whatever we had done in the past will stay with us forever- in a way it’s like energy- once being created, never will vanish. With this in mind, we shall never create bad energy, or at least try our best to avoid the chance to create bad energy. If we think we had created bad energy or bad deeds in the past, we should constantly repent ourselves to diminish the effect of bad karma to occur.
Anyway, this is my humble thought to the greyhound bus incident. I greatly feel sorry for the innocent young man who had died. This incident, however, has taught us to do good deeds thus create good karma, if you believe the cycle of “cause and effect” in the Buddhist doctrine. May peace be with the victim’s family.
