Karma & The Power Of Religion
Most Buddhists believe in retribution or karma. I believe there's a greater being up there who renders short-term karma to people who had misgiven or accumulated merits. This cannot be science; it can't be proven. This is what I call the Human Equation. For some incomprehensible reasons, the combination of certain actions and inactions, coupled with the person's merits, would result in certain happenings. For e.g. a man who had squandered his money, beaten up an old nanny, did not lend a help hand to a drowning kid, eventually became a bankrupt and contracted syphilis. Well, my example wouldn't make sense; karma can't be explained logically anyway.
To me, following what my heart tells me to do, and to do the right things all the time would probably prevent these bad short-term karma from happening. In the midst, I might have executed the right combination to have invoked good karma.
I'd like to emphasise a power that any religion could bestow onto its believers, i.e. the power of temperance. Think about how our nerdy, staunch & pious friends never/seldom run into problems like a run-away debtor, getting romantically involved with foreign imports, evading the law etc. They don't cuz' their strong religious beliefs had moulded them to be nice people who wouldn't step near danger zones. With this refrainment, they wouldn't get into funny troubles. So, while many pray hard for miracles, have they thought that, perhaps, there'd never be miracles; the greater deities' magic is in making its followers not do certain things at the first place?
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