The Cause and Effect Sutra

The Cause And Effect Sutra

Of The Myriad Dharmas… The Kindness Of Parents Is Great!

The verse of Maitreya’s advice on filiality says:

In the family there are two Buddhas

Regretfully, people in the world do not know

No need to use Gold and Colour to Adorn

Also no need to use Chandana to carve

Just look at your present Father and Mother

They are Shakyamuni and Maitreya

If you can make offerings to them

Where is the need to other Merit and Virtue..

Effect: Why are you a Govt Officer in this life?

Cause: Because you have built Buddha’s images in your previous life

Whatever you do will come back to you.

Dress up neatly and pay respect to the Buddha.

To protect the Tathagata Monastery is to protect yourself.

For building Buddha’s images is molding yourself.

Effect: Why in this life you have cars and various transportation facilities?

Cause: Because you have repaired broken bridges and paved roads for the benefit of others in your previous life.

Effect: Why in this life you have clothing in great variety?

Cause: Because you have donated warm clothing to monks.

Effect: Why in this life you have splendid food?

Cause: Because you have donated food to the poor in your previous life.

Effect: Why in this life you are starving and clotheless?

Cause: Because you were sthingy to donate to charity in your previous life.

Effect: Why in this life you have houses and buildings?

Cause: Because you have donated food to monasteries in your previous life.

Effect: Why in this life you are so prosperous and happy?

Cause: Because you have donated money to build temples and public shelters in your previous life.

Effect: Why in this life you are pretty or handsome?

Cause: Because you respectfully offered flowers to the Buddha’s altar in your previous life.

Effect: Why in this life you are so intelligent and wise?

Cause: Because you were a devout Buddhist and a sober vegetarian in your previous life.

Effect: Why in this life you are liked by others?

Cause: Because you have created good relationship with people in your previous life.

Effect: Why in this life husband and wife are faithfull to each other?

Cause: Because you have decorated the temple with scrolls and tapestries to Buddha in your previous life.

Effect: Why in this life you have both parents?

Cause: Because you have respected and helped the lonely people in your previous life.

Effect: Why in this life you are an orphan?

Cause: Because you were bird-shooter in your previous life.

Effect: Why in this life you have many children?

Cause: Because you have printed and distributed sutras in your previous life.

Effect: Why in this life a son dies young?

Cause: Because you have committed killing by drowning a baby girl in your previous life.

Effect: Why in this life you are heirless?

Cause: Because you have destroyed flowers habitually in your previous life.

Effect: Why in this life you enjoy longevity and good health?

Cause: Because you set free sentient being in your previous life.

Effect: Why in this life you are shot-lived?

Cause: Because you have committed many killings in your previous life.

Effect: Why in this life you have no spouse?

Cause: Because you have committed adultery in your previous life.

Effect: Why in this life you are a widow?

Cause: Because you have ill-treated your husband in your previous life.

Effect: Why in this life you are a serf?

Cause: Because you were disloyal and ungrateful in your previous life.

Effect: Why in this life you have clear and good eye-sighted eyes?

Cause: Because you have donated oil to light up the Buddha’s altar in your previous life.

Effect: Why in this life you suffer from blindness?

Cause: Because you have distorted truths and misled others in your previous life.

Effect: Why in this life you have wry mouth?

Cause: Because you have intentionally blown out candles before the Buddha’s altar in your previous life.

Effect: Why in this life you are dumb and deaf?

Cause: Because you have vituperated your parents in your previous life.

Effect: Why in this life you are a hunch back?

Cause: Because you jeered at Buddha’s followers in your previous life.

Effect: Why in this life you have disabled hands?

Cause: Because you have committed evils with your hands in your previous life.

Effect: Why in this life you have lame legs?

Cause: Because you weer a robber in your previous life.

Effect: Why in this life you were born as a horse or an ox?

Cause: Because you have never pay your debts in your previous life.

Effect: Why in this life you are born as a pig or dog?

Cause: Because you have deceived and harmed others in your previous life.

Effect: Why in this life you suffer from constant illness?

Cause: Because you have offered flesh to monks in your previous life.

Effect: Why in this life you are healthy?

Cause: Because you have offered medicine to cure sick people in your previous life.

Effect: Why in this life you are imprisoned?

Cause: Because you have relentlessly committed evils in your previous life.

Effect: Why in this life you are starved to death?

Cause: Because you have plugged snake pits and mouse holes in your previous life.

Effect: Why in this life you die of poison?

Cause: Because you intentionally poisoned a river or water source in your previous life.

Effect: Why in this life you are forlorn and friendless?

Cause: Because you were unfaithful and deceitful to others in your previous life.

Effect: Why in this life you are born as a dwarf?

Cause: Because you have read and written sutra on the floor in your previous life.

Effect: Why in this life you spew blood?

Cause: Because you have eaten meat while praying in your previous life.

Effect: Why in this life you are deaf?

Cause: Because you have attended Buddhist instructions with levity in your previous life.

Effect: Why in this life you are afflicted with ulcers?

Cause: Because you have offered flesh before the Buddha’s altar in your previous life.

Effect: Why in this life you have bad bodily odour?

Cause: Because you have sold incense with dishonesty in your previous life.

Effect: Why in this life you die by hanging yourself?

Cause: Because you hunted animals by using ropes and nets in your previous life.

Effect: Why in this life you are bereft of a spouse?

Cause: Because you have been unduly envious and jealous in your previous life.

Effect: Why in this life your are struck by lightning or burnt by fire?

Cause: Because you have committed dishonest trading with customers in your previous life.

Effect: Why in this life you are wounded by by beasts or snakes?

Cause: Because you have created enemies in yours previous life.

If you suffer in hell, blame yourself for what you did in your previous life.

Cause: If you in this life recite the Cause and Effect Sutra

Effect: You will be respected by many people in your next life.

Cause: If you in this life, print and distribute the Cause and Effect Sutra free to all..

Effect: You will become a leader to the humanity in your next life

Cause: If you doubt tht eating vegetarian is cultivating charity

Effect: Witness the happy and prosperous people around you.

Cause: It is good to cultivate giving to the Triple Gems

Effect: You will be rewarded in return..

Cause: If you carry the Cause and Effect Sutra..

Effect: You will be free from disaster and calamity.

Cause: Do not think tht Cause and Effect is fallacious.

Effect: It will manifest either immediately or later in your life

Cause: If you spread the truth of the Cause and Effect Sutra

Effect: You will be wise and intelligent life after life.

Effect: You are a Minister or an Officer in this life

Cause: You gain the fruits because you cultivated with pains in your previous life

Cause: In this life if u insult the Cause and Effect Sutra

Effect: You are no longer a human being in your next life

Cause: If in this life you transcribe the Cause and Effect Sutra

Effect: The generations will be smart scholars and live happily

Cause: If you recite and act according to the Cause and Effect Sutra

Effect: Whatever you do will be witnessed by the Buddhas and Bodhisattva.

Cause: It is impossible to exhaust the speaking of the Law of Cause and Effect

Effect: The fruit of a good deed will come in due course…

Cause and Effect: The good cause you have accomplished in your previous life will be the foundation of your good fortune.

Cause and Effect: The good seeds you have planted in this life will give you good fruits in next life.

Cause: If you doubt the efficacy of Cause and Effect..

Effect: See how Maugalyayana could save his mother from suffering

The Cause and Effect must not be treated as a small matter

The Buddha’s words are truth, you must not slight

Cause: If people deeply believe in the Cause and Effect Sutra

Effect: This will bring them together to the land of the Ultimate Bliss

The Buddha says: to understand your previous life

                         look at what you have in your present life

                          to have a preview of your next life

                          examine your daily act in this life

past karmas determined your present destiny,

present karmas will mould your next lfie…