"The lives of men, in fact the whole universe of living beings, are governed by unchanging, eternal laws, such as the laws of cause and effect, the laws of the mind and of the laws of nature. The whole universe is governed by these eternal laws, and not by any imaginary God, a God susceptible to change if one believes that God has compassion to be aroused and partiality won. To the Buddhist the laws of nature, the laws of righteousness which govern the universe, are the always the same, the same for one and all. Therefore, a man’s duty is not to break these rules, not to try to change these laws by means of any prayer or guarding against them, but to know and understand them and to live in harmony with them.The past is the background against which life goes on from moment to moment, the future is yet to be. One the present moment exists, and the responsibility of using the present moment for good or ill lies with each individual. The present being, present existence, is conditioned by how one faced circumstances in the last, and in all past existences. Our present position in character and circumstances is the result of all that one has been up to the present, but what will be in the future depends on what one does now in the present."
Posted on: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 17:38:56 +0000