Karma - Immoral life Leads to Mishap 傷風敗俗的生活導致不幸

(English subtitles) Lectured by Daoist teacher Rui-Lie Lee (李瑞烈, 1921-2015) originally, and narrated by his disciple Ah-Ze Huang Zong.
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Good evening, I will talk about karma. Let's see Treatise on Response and Retribution. Laozi is the greatest patriarch of Daoism, and he said: There is no door originally for acquiring misfortune or blessings. Why saying that? This is due to people’s own induction. It's the karma of good and evil. Doing good will be rewarded, doing evil will be punished. Good and evil karma are like shadow follows your figure.
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That is to say, everyone respects good people, heaven also blesses them. Blessing and prosperity come with good people.
If people violate virtue and do misdeeds, regard doing evil as a skill, many people are like this, do evils and regard themselves as very talented. Those who do evil and think they are talented will be deprived of their life span according to the degree of sin they have created. Someone is meant to live long, but if he commits sin and is proud of his skill, his lifespan will be deprived. Therefore, his blessings and misfortunes will be passed on to his descendants.
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Therefore, the Book of Changes says: "The family that accumulates virtues will be blessed; the family that accumulates evils will suffer. “
To get into this topic, I want to tell a story about a person who originally lived a long life but did bad things but his life was short. His lifespan got deprived.
This is a real story. We are to reform worldly people, so I won't mention his name. This is a real story that happened in 1973. it has been 50 years. At that time, our teacher read the newspaper. There was a rich man, who lived in Penghu. He was somewhat famous in Penghu,
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sort of a wealthy entrepreneur nowadays. He had someone else read his fortune. Many fortune tellers predicted that he would have wealth, offspring, longevity. What are those? Wealth is to be rich; offspring means to have many children; longevity is long lived. With all these, he was destined to have good fortune. However, this man was mean. Not only was he mean, but he was vicious and evil. He got rich by making money in an unethical way. The people who work for him are pathetic.
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He is too dissatisfied with his subordinates. Not only was he mean and vicious, but he was also lustful. His family was very rich and had many descendants. Why were there many descendants? Because he married a wife and concubines, he had 8 sons. In addition, he messed around with many women outside, and that were immeasurable. How hateful was he? He was not happy with a group of wives at home.
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When he saw beautiful woman, he wanted them for himself. Some of them were not interested in him, for he had been 60 years old. But he desired to achieve his goals at all costs. No matter what, if he saw a woman he liked, he craved for her. A relative advised him, "So-and-so, you should restrain yourself and must not fool around. You are already sixty, and the girl is only a teenager. She can be your granddaughter, so you dare to ask for it." You've got to have some manners. You have had a few wives at home, but you are not satisfied. His friend kept advising him.
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How did he reply? I have lots of money, and I am destined with wealth, offspring, longevity. How could I starve to death or encounter misfortune? He meant he had lots of money. All fortune-tellers said he was a man with wealth, offspring, longevity, so he was very blatant. Therefore, people should not be overly arrogant. In 1973, at the age of 62, he threw a grand birthday party. Then he told his sons, I tell you, I will divide the family property. I’ll share it with you while I’m healthy now. Everyone has a share, and I’ll keep a share for myself. While the property was divided, he had nothing to do after eating.
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When he was boss, he had to work more or less. After handing over the business to his sons, he had nothing to do. Originally, He was a womanizer, addicted to eating, drinking, whoring and gambling. Before long, he spent all the property of his own share. After spending it, he asked his sons to give him money each month. He designated a certain amount of money for him. His sons thought the money originally belonged to their father, so they all agreed.
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However, most of his money was spent on fooling around with girls. Later, his daughters-in-law, women are usually more calculative, complained to their husbands. Oh, how can dad do this? He asks for money each month. How can he take money unlimitedly? The husbands said, The money originally belonged to Dad. Since Dad has given it to us, it's ours. Why doesn't he ask others for it? Everyone's passing the buck, and their opinions diverge. At last, the brothers had to summon a meeting.