Karma: Retribution

Retribution is going to happen to all of the people. We are going to face what we do to others. If you do a good thing, a good thing happens to you. On the other hand, if you do a bad thing, a bad thing happens to you. That is the way of the world. There is no way to get away from the retribution especially the retribution for an evil deed.

The other day, I met a wife who abused her husband and her son. She didn't know why she hit them and she had no idea how to stop it. She asked my advice. At the time, her son was five years old and he looked like he had been waiting for help. Asking more about the wife, I found out that she had abused by her father as well. She told me that she noticed something wrong with her mind because of the fear.  After finishing the school, she married a kind man in order to get away from her father. She was thinking that she could finally find peace in her life with her husband. However things did not go as she expected. Now she became the one who abused. She hit her husband and her son when thing did not go the way as she wanted. She kicked them. She threw things toward them. Her craziness has gotten worse and she hit them by a bat at last. She asked me the reason why she wanted to torture her husband and son even she had been abused and had so much pain. She wanted to change herself. Therefore, I told her the truth. I told her that she was the one who tortured her father in the previous life. She abused her father in the past. She caused lots of pain to her father. Yes my friends. She called her the retribution by herself. In the previous life, she had strong ego and so selfish person. Sometime she made people follow herself by violence. Therefore, she was born under this fate and got abused in order to learn the pain, which she caused to her father.

 Her husband also had another kinds of karma and trial. He was a kind and mild person but at the same time he was a weak man. In the way of being awakened for him, he was supposed to stop his wife and change her. He was expected to overcome his weakness and create courage in himself to face the fear. However, he just let it go, closed his eyes and ears, and did not even protect his son from her violence because of the fear. He did not face his trial. He followed his karma not the love. If he had tired to protect his son from the violence at the risk of his life at the time, he could have finished his karma in this life. He could have gotten his love back and he could have being awakened. However, he loved himself first and he could not change his karma, which he carried from his past lives.

As you can see from this family, everything is trial for people. It is very hard, hard, and hard thing but this is the way.

After telling the truth that there was nothing to blame, they have forgave each other little by little. It took time to get there because each one of them had so much pain and fear. However they are in good relationship now since they learn the truth of karma and also how to forgive others. There is no violence in the family now. I am just so glad with it. You see my friends? We are here to being awakened. There is nothing to blame or curse in the world. This is why I love you all. I’ll be waiting for you to be awakened.

Tenkairen