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What is causal retaliation?

There are people who have been bullied in the past and hate them even now. The statute of limitations has now reached the point of resentment, and I think it has reached the point of resentment.
Even though they weren't bullied or even hostile, there are people who still can't forgive them.
Where does causal retaliation start and end in the first place? If I do something wrong, will it bounce back?
Actually, nothing is being done even now. Still, it's uncomfortable.

4 Zen Responses

Causal Retribution and Resentment

You're worried about grudge and hate in the Eight Struggles (Onzou Eku).
Onzō Eku (Onzō Eku) means “even if you hate them, you must meet them.” It's about suffering. If you want to get away from that, you want to know and use the Buddhist term causal revenge. Causal retaliation refers to good cause, good effect, and bad cause and bad effect, and it is just a matter of right and wrong as seen from the Buddha's point of view. The fact that your opponent is bad in this case is subjective to you, isn't it? More than that, the objectivity that the Buddha is watching is important. Isn't there an expression that Mr. Otendo is watching? This comes from the Tendo faith, and I used to work under pressure that Buddha was watching, comparing Tendo to Dainichi Nyorai. When people around you don't say that your opponent is bad, it means that your objectivity doesn't judge that your opponent is bad. The objective that Buddha, who has transcended that, sees is, as I wrote earlier, good cause, good effect, bad cause, bad effect, so if you do good deeds, good results will come out, and if you do bad deeds, bad results will come out. It's very scientific, so to speak. Bullying is bad. As long as that person doesn't stop doing that act, the next victim may still be there. However, it is wrong to suffer from grudges and bitterness (anger) over things in the past. My founder, Honen Shonen, was burnt down by his father when he was 9 years old and said, “Don't hold a grudge against your enemies. Become a monk and pray for the Bodhisattva.” It is said that he became a monk and became a monk according to his father's will. It's a basic teaching in Buddhism that one should not hold a grudge. Therefore, even if you make mistakes in the teaching of causal retribution, please don't use it only in the direction of resentment. Commonly known as causal retaliation is “causal retaliation.” How do you use it, but it's not that easy.

There's nothing that isn't causal retaliation, but that kind of logic is also far from it.

I bought the tea I'm receiving here today, but there were people who arranged it on the shelf at that store, and the person who paid for it at the checkout was someone else. No, there are people who grew that tea and cultivated it for me. No, growing tea is a blessing from heaven and earth. The sun, air, ☂, soil... all kinds of relationships with and without... it just so happens that it goes into my mouth through infinity and infinity. That's why tea is ❝ brewed ❞ at a good temperature and at an appropriate time. Moreover, that tea doesn't taste like that in your mouth right now. If I don't eat that tea, I won't taste tea.
Causal retaliation means that if that is done, it will inevitably be done exactly as it is.
It's also strange that there are people who have felt bad about the past but have forgotten it.
I experienced something bad in the past, and when I think back on that, I am free to leave that “way of thinking back” to the person himself. I've also been bullied, but now I'm Kerorin. 🐸
If I were to give that experience to eggplant, there are an infinite number of ways to cook eggplant. If you cook it badly, it will burn. If you cook it well, it will be a delicious dish. If left alone, it becomes garbage, and if used well, it becomes fertilizer.

Therefore, since you yourself are facing that 🍆 as a problem this time, let's cook that problem well... and lead it in a direction where it doesn't hurt your heart.

Thoughts and memories are actually neither good nor bad when they are remembered by Pong.
If that can be determined, people suffering from flashbacks and trauma can immediately resolve them, and they don't need a doctor, and they don't need medicine. It becomes painful to handle. That's because you can't change it.
When Zen monks practice while looking at themselves, there is also an aspect where they look at the very effect of thought.
Every thought or memory that arises within oneself “just” appeared “just like that” at the time of occurrence.
It's like Momotaro's Dombraco and Momo flowing 🍑.
If you don't pick them up, the peaches will run away.
If you pick it up and click on it, that page opens, and there are demons, battles, monkeys, pheasants, and dogs.
Actually, isn't that what they're doing right now?
It would be nice if you could see through there.
Even though it was in the past that I had a disgusting experience, the only thing I remember about it is that now, here, and now, I am no other, and that thought simply came out of nowhere. Also, there is an aspect where it is cooked by burning it.

Why don't you think of it as a reward for your own work?

Why don't you think of your suffering now as a reward for the work you yourself inherited from you in the past (including previous lives)?
In order to be freed from this suffering, it is necessary to accumulate ascetic practices, good deeds, and merits that weaken affliction.
I think the teaching of causal retribution is not for condemning others, but for thinking about devoting oneself from today to brighten one's own future.

ignorant

Such a thing
No one knows.
Good things are rewarded.
Bad rewards for doing bad things.
I understand this somehow.
I did my best to study and get into the school of my choice.
The cause and effect are clearly visible.
What do you think?
Of course it's my own efforts,
The cooperation of people around you
It's essential, right?
I am Amida
Of course,
Because there are people around me
If you're being kept alive,
I'm thinking.
You can't change the past.
At the place where I had a grudge
The past remains the same.
What is your future
With the blessings of Shinto and Buddha,
Making a big leap forward
It can be done.
Even if you hate it,
Even if you have a grudge,
Whether it reaches the other party
Whether it has arrived or not,
Worrying and suffering
You are yourself.
Sing even a humming song
How would I live happily if this were
Why don't you think about it?

I wish you all the best.