The basic principle of the thought of causal reincarnation is the "Causality Theory" of Buddhist ethics (Sanskrit hetuphala is causality), that is, everything is governed by the law of causality, and good causes will produce good results and evil causes will produce bad results. From the perspective of ethics, the law of cause and effect takes karma as the core, emphasizing the consistency between the subject of moral behavior and the subject of moral existence. We believe that the causal law of Buddhist ethics is different from the causal dialectics in the philosophical sense. Not that "every fruit has a cause", but that "the same cause and the same effect". This proposition is easily falsified by science or common sense, but in the sense of religious ethics, it is the iron law of faith, which has no true or false value and determines the moral choice and moral evaluation in religious life. In other words, it stipulates that
The causal law of Buddhist ethics is an inevitable ethical law and rule, which has been repeatedly stated in Buddhist classics. For example, the fifth chapter of the Meditation Sutra in China and Afghanistan says, "When I was young, the Buddha said to the monk: I did my homework, and I said that I would get what I deserved, or suffer in this world, or suffer in the future. If you don't do your homework, I said you don't have to report it. " "On the Land of Yogis" also said: "Don't lose what you have done, and don't allow what you haven't done." Wait a minute.
In On Three Reports, Hui Yuan quoted Buddhist scriptures and declared: "There are three reports of karma, one is the present report, the other is the birth report, and the third is the later report. Now, good and evil began in this body, that is, this suffering. Those who give birth to newspapers will suffer in the afterlife. Those who report later, or after the second, third, eternal and thousand generations, will receive it. " [7] Three trades, three lives. Hui Yuan's theory of the reincarnation of good and evil karma makes the karma theory more self-evident, especially the explanation of the abnormal phenomena of karma, which makes up for the deficiency of the traditional karma theory in China and its powerlessness in explaining various social inequalities.
In the process of its emergence and development, the traditional retribution theory of China and Turkey has been challenged and criticized in all aspects because of its obvious contradiction between theory and reality. Sima Qian of the Han Dynasty asked in Historical Records that two sages, Boyi and Shu Qi, starved to death for benevolence and righteousness, but what are the signs of good news?
In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Wang Chong opposed the theory of retribution between good and evil and the theory of natural life, and put forward the topic of how to make his theory more exquisite, deceptive and self-explanatory.
Buddhism's theory of retribution for good and evil has been widely affirmed and favored by middle-earth society, and has also been refuted and criticized by all parties. For example, He Chengtian (370-447), a thinker and atheist in the Southern Dynasties and the Song Dynasty, openly opposed the theory of retribution between good and evil. He used the fact that "geese eat grass and swallows eat insects to see love" in real life to explain that the Buddhist theory of retribution for good and evil is not credible. His "The Problem of Karma" holds that the karma of good and evil in Buddhism is not based on facts, but only the convenient right to persuade people to do good, and Huilin, a monk in the Southern Song Dynasty, took a fancy to the wonderful use of the karma theory in Buddhism in facilitating education, which is superior to China's ethics:
Hei said, "Both Zhou and Confucius taught each other, and there is no infinite fate in the afterlife. Jishanbu
After the celebration of children and grandchildren, I hate it, but I am in trouble. My service ends in Rong Lu, and my whole responsibility is extremely poor.
Beyond seeing and hearing, I don't know, pathetic! Sakyamuni's endless career, pulling the risk of heavy harvest,
As far as Fang Taoqi is concerned, the universe is not full of its light. If we set up a charity aid, the student group will not be able to overcome it. narrate
In hell, people are afraid of their sins, while in heaven, things are happy, which means that the mud will last for a long time.