Words Posted on the Internet will Cause the Unimaginable Effects. Be prudent!

【Virtue or evil is just in a twist of thought. The infinite network on the Internet has amplified its effects on countless people; thus, the fruit of karma is unimaginable. Consequently, be benevelent online.】／Master Hai Tao

When it comes to practicing Buddhism or talking about spiritual cultivation,
a practitioner is expected to refrain from harming others,
and to abstain from seeking revenge against others.
These two disciplines must be well practiced in advance.

Hence, while visiting Buddhist temples,
we prostrate reverentially before the Buddha and kneel piously to worship.
What’s the meaning behind the practice?
It’s all about subduing ourselves.
You’ve got to have your short temper, such as scolding and criticizing,
banished and eliminated.
In response to the Internet grown so popular nowadays,
here’s my advice to young people: Be very prudent, my friends.
Through the convenient Internet, scolding others with words
and making the whole world know one’s reproaching another
is such a dreadful thing.

If I badmouth you, it lasts only a few minute, and then it’s gone.
However, if I put my inveighing in black and white
to harm a sentient being and to let others recognize my hatred toward him
the negative karma will be extended from one life to another.

Buddha once explained the cause and effect
by using the help of an example.
Why do people suffer melancholic depression,
bipolar disorder, and frantic?
It’s the result of having attacked others in public,
and having provoked others to bash ideologically and physically.
The worst karma has been made by the words
causing a huge amount of public anger
and motivating people to slash, to kill, and to condemn.

#【善惡一念，在網路無限連結放大之下，一定會影響到無數人，其業果是無法想像的。因此，上網時保持善心顯得格外重要！】／海濤法師