It is now every common to find celebrities pick an international charity organization become their representative, help the less fortunate solve problems they are inevitable forced into. These celebrities will bring along an entourage of people which comprises of their management staff, helpers, supporters and not forgetting the media. Their community work will be filmed and copies sold to TV stations. Eventually we get to watch their good works.
Charity begins at home. A very popular phrase copied and adopted by all. Charity can be rendered as community works, monetary contributions, human or animal adoptions, organizing campaigns to raise funds and spreading the message by just being present. The last of course, is possible if you are someone well-known to the public. If you are camera shy, you can anonymously help by donating with a charitable heart and keep mum about it.
What are the returns for being charitable? Eternal life in heaven or a lighter punishment in hell? We believe giving aids in any form may bring good and prosperity to a person. It will also help wash away our sins, repair the wrongs we did in the past and give us a peace of mind.
By going around canvassing and spreading the goodness to people and winning the hearts of people, gaining popularity for oneself is not a sincere way to retrieve piety from a bad karma done in the past. But if charity is done sincerely maybe we will not be banished to the 18th pit in the afterlife.
In the teachings of Buddhism, whatever bad you did in the past will come back to you in the future. Sharon Stone, who considers the Dalai Lama as a very good friend, concluded that it was China’s treatment of the Tibetans that had boomerang the bad karma to befall on China. China’s bad karma had brought on the most controversial earthquake to occur where over 80,000 lives were reaped.
What about those poverty stricken countries like some African states where famines are a forgoing crisis? Myanmar was severely wreaked by Cyclone Nagis, Thailand and Indonesia were not spared by the tsunamis. Even the US had their fair shares of raging forest fires, ferocious hurricanes and devastating floods. How shall we view the attacks by bird flu and mad cow diseases? Not one nation has escaped the social illness of AIDS where homosexuality is popularly practiced. What conclusion shall we narrow these to? Shall we echo Sharon Stone’s words and sighed BAD KARMA?
Charity begins at home. A very popular phrase copied and adopted by all. Charity can be rendered as community works, monetary contributions, human or animal adoptions, organizing campaigns to raise funds and spreading the message by just being present. The last of course, is possible if you are someone well-known to the public. If you are camera shy, you can anonymously help by donating with a charitable heart and keep mum about it.
What are the returns for being charitable? Eternal life in heaven or a lighter punishment in hell? We believe giving aids in any form may bring good and prosperity to a person. It will also help wash away our sins, repair the wrongs we did in the past and give us a peace of mind.
By going around canvassing and spreading the goodness to people and winning the hearts of people, gaining popularity for oneself is not a sincere way to retrieve piety from a bad karma done in the past. But if charity is done sincerely maybe we will not be banished to the 18th pit in the afterlife.
In the teachings of Buddhism, whatever bad you did in the past will come back to you in the future. Sharon Stone, who considers the Dalai Lama as a very good friend, concluded that it was China’s treatment of the Tibetans that had boomerang the bad karma to befall on China. China’s bad karma had brought on the most controversial earthquake to occur where over 80,000 lives were reaped.
What about those poverty stricken countries like some African states where famines are a forgoing crisis? Myanmar was severely wreaked by Cyclone Nagis, Thailand and Indonesia were not spared by the tsunamis. Even the US had their fair shares of raging forest fires, ferocious hurricanes and devastating floods. How shall we view the attacks by bird flu and mad cow diseases? Not one nation has escaped the social illness of AIDS where homosexuality is popularly practiced. What conclusion shall we narrow these to? Shall we echo Sharon Stone’s words and sighed BAD KARMA?
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