There are three aspects of human beings that have effects on our karma account which are as followed: 1. Activities of the mind. Most of the time we live our life in our thoughts, feelings and emotions. This causes us to be unaware that greed, anger, delusion, and desire play major roles in our mind. Once our mind begins with greed, anger, desire, and delusion, our speech and actions are likely to follow with wrong view in life which will cause us to commit bad karma that will come around to us unavoidably. 2. Discourse. Human are social animals that use languages to communicate with one another. With wrong view in life, our speech is likely to be used to benefit us. This will cause us to lie or be careless with incessant talk, thinking it’s the right way to survive in today’s world. 3. Action. Certainly when our mind has been corrupted by greed, anger, delusion, and desire -followed by misconduct in speech- to create opportunities to trick or take advantage of others this is indeed wrong action. It will surely make us commit bad karma automatically without knowing the result of doing so. To stop this evil cycle, one must have the right view on life. In practice we must take out the root of the problem by following these principles: 1. Never let thoughts and emotions effect us. Be wise by knowing that thoughts and emotions randomly appear in our mind without us being able to choose or control them. What we can do is tell ourselves that those thoughts and emotions are our true enemy. They don’t really exist anywhere but in our mind. We don’t own them. It’s the nature of our mind to have thoughts and emotions comes and go just like the wind blows. 2. As for our speech, we must keep in mind that language is to be used for communication. We don’t say what we don’t mean or allow ourselves to engage in any incessant conversation. We only say things for peace, harmony and for the best of human kind. 3. Once we realize what is the right view, the right path will follow. Right speech, right intention, right livelihood, right concentration will become our way of life. Any action we may make will be for the best of everyone instead of actions that only serve our own desire. All this is a matter of practice in order to become wiser in both spiritual and worldly life.
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