The Cause and Effect Sutra

Why you are a Government Officer in this-life ?

Because you have built Buddha's images in your previous life .

Whatever you do will come back to you .

Dress-up neatly and pay respect to the Buddha .

To protect the Tathagata Monastery is to protect yourself .

For building Buddha's image is moulding yourself .

Why in this-life you have cars and various transportation facilities ?

Because you have repaired broken bridges and paved roads for the benefit of others in your previous life .

Why in this-life you have clothing in great variety ?

Because you have donated warm clothing to monks .

Why in this-life you have splendid food ?

Because you have donated food to the poor in your previous life .

Why in this-life you are starving and clothesless ?

Because you were too stingy to donate to charity in your previous life .

Why in this-life you have houses and buildings ?

Because you have donated food to monasteries in your previous life .

Why in this-life you are so properous and happy ?

Because you have donated money to build temples and public shelters in your previous life .

Why in this-life you are pretty and handsome ?

Because you respectfully offered flowers to the Buddha's altar in your previous life .

Why in this-life you are so intelligent and wise ?

Because you were a devout Buddhist and a sober vegetarian in ypur previous life .

Why in this-life you are liked by others ?

Because you have created good relationship with people in your previous life .

Why in this-life husband and wife are faithful to each other?

Because you have decorated the temple with scrolls and tapestries to Buddha in your previous life .

Why in this-life you have both parents ?

Because you have respected and helped the lonely people in your previous life .

Why in this-life you are an orphan ?

Because you were a bird-shooter in your previous life .

Why in this-life you have many children ?

Because you have printed and distributed sutras in your previous life .

Why in this-life a son dies young ?

Because you have committed killing by drowing a baby-girl in your previous life .

Why in this-life you are heirless ?

Because you have destroyed flowers habitually in your previous life .

Why in this-life you enjoy longevity and good health ?

Because you set free sentient-being in your previous life .

Why in this-life you are short-lived ?

Because you have committed too many killing in your previous life .

Why in this-life you have no spouse ?

Because you have committed adultery in your previous life .

Why in this-life yoy are a widow ?

Because you have ill-treated your husband in your previous life .

Why in this-life you are a serf ?

Because you were disloyal and ungrateful in your previous life .

Why in this-life you have clear and good sighted eyes ?

Because you have donated oil to light up the Buddha's altar in your previous life .

Why in this-life you suffer from blindness ?

Because you have distorted-truths and misled others in your previous life .

Why in this-life you have wry mouth ?

Because you have intentionally blown out candles before the Buddha's altar in your previous life .

Why in this-life you are dumb and deaf ?

Because you have vituperated your parents in your previous life .

Why in this-life you are hunch back ?

Because you jeered at Buddha's followers in your previous life .

Why in this-life you have disabled hands ?

Because you have committed evils with your hands in your previous life .

Why in this-life you have lame-legs ?

Because you were a robber in your previous life .

Why in this-life you are born as a horse or an ox ?

Because you have never paid your debts in your previous life .

Why in this-life you are born as a pig or dog ?

Because you have deceived and harmed others in your previous life .

Why in this-life you suffer from constant illness ?

Because you have offered flesh meat to monks in your previous life .

Why in this-life you are healthy ?

Because you have offered medicine to cure the sick people in your previous life .

Why in this-life you are imprisoned ?

Because you have relentlessly committed evils in your previous life .

Why in this-life you are starved tp death ?

Because you have plugged snake-pit and mouse holes in your previous life .

Why in this-life you die of poison ?

Because you intentionally poisoned a river or water source in your previous life .

Why un this-life you are forlorn and friendless ?

Because you were unfaithful and deceitful to others in your previous life .

Why in this-life you are born as a dwarf ?

Because you have read and written sutra on the floor in your previous life .

Why in this-life you spew blood ?

Because you have eaten meat while praying in your previous life .

Why in this-life you are deaf ?

Because you have attended Buddhist instructions with levity in your previous life .

Why in this-life you are afflicted with ulcers ?

Because you have offered meat before the Buddha's altar in your previous life .

Why in this-life you have bodily odor ?

Because you have sold incense with dishonesty in your previous life .

Why in this-life you die by hanging yourself ?

Because you hunted animals by using ropes and nets in your previous life .

Why in this-life you are bereft of a spouse ?

Because you have been unduly envious and jealous in your previous life .

Why in this-life you are struck by lightning or burnt by fire ?

Because you have committed dishonest trading with customer in your previous life .

Why in this-life you are wounded by beasts or snakes ?

Because you have created enemies in your previous life .

Whether you reaped or you sowed .

If you suffer in hell ,blame yourself for what you did in your previous life.

If you in this-life recite the Cause and Effect Sutra .

You will be respected by many people in your next life .

If you in this-life print and distribute the Cause and Effect Sutra free to all...

You will become a leader to humanity in your next life .

If you douth that eating vegetarian is cultivating charity .

Witness the happy and prosperous people around you .

It is good to cultivate giving to the Triple Gems .

You will be rewarded in return...

If you carry the Cause and Effect Sutra...

You will free from disaster and calamity .

Do not think that the Cause and Effect is fallacious .

It will manifest either immediately of later in your life .

If you spread the truth of the Cause and Effect Sutra..

You will be wise and intelligent in life-after-life .

You are a Minister or an Officer in this-life .

You gain the fruits because you cultivated with pain in your previous life .

If you in this-life insult the Cause and Effect Sutra .

You are no longer a human being in your next life .

If in this-life you transcribe the Cause and Effect Sutra .

The generations will be smart scholar and lived happily .

If you recite and act according to the Cause and Effect Sutra .

Whatever you do will be withnessed by the Buddhas and Bodhisattva .

It is impossible to exhaust the speaking of the Law of Cause and Effect .

The fruit of a good deed will come in due course .

The good cause you have accomplished in your previous life will be the foundation of your good fortune .

The good seeds you have planted in this-life will give you good fruiths in your next-life .

If you doubt the efficacy of Cause and Effect .

See how Maugalyayana could save his mother from suffering .

The Cause and Effect must not be traeted as a small matter .

The Buddha's words are truth, you must not slight .

If people deeply believe in the Cause and Effect Sutra .

This will bring them together to the land of Utimate Bliss.