[nukkad] REBIRTH

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CHAIN OF KARMAS

A man spat on Buddha. Buddha quietly wiped his face 
with his cloak.  The man was very angry, and so were 
Buddha's disciples when it happened. After he left, 
Ananda could not console himself. "This is a sacrilege," 
he exclaimed. "Moderation doesn't mean that anyone can 
get away with doing whatever he wants to you. 
That way would inspire others to do likewise. Our 
hearts are burning, we cannot bear the insult." Buddha 
answered, "Don't be unnecessarily excited, lest that 
will become a link in your chain of karmas.
 
I must have hurt him sometime and now he has cleared 
the debt. I may have insulted him somehow now we are 
quits. I came to this village expressly for him. Had 
he not spat on me, I would have been in a quandary. 
He has solved my dilemma. Now my account is closed. 
This man has freed me from some past action of mine. 
I am grateful to him."

"And why are you all so excited? It had nothing to 
do with you. If your wrath is stirred up and you 
do something to this man in your excitement, you 
will have created a new link in your chain of 
karmas. My chain is broken your will be made a 
new and for no reason. Why are you intervening? 
I have to reap the result from the one I have 
troubled. Before my total, highest annihilation, 
before I merge completely with the infinite, 
I must settle my account with all people, all 
things, all relationships formed in anger, 
insolence, hatred, attachment, greed, etc.

For only he whose actions have been equalized 
is a completely liberated being."



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