Robot Monk Xian'er

Be active and go easyTo work hard on the cause and go easy with the effect. The former is meant to change what can be changed while the latter is to let go what can’t be changed. If we don’t work hard on the cause,we are being inactive; if we hold too tight to the effect, we suffer. To be active but not to hold too tight is taking the middle way, wise and easy. The Buddhist doctrine of cause and effect is far from fatalism. Fatalism and the negation of cause and effect are two extremes. The former overemphasizes past karmas while the latter totally neglects them. Both are wrong views. The Buddhist law of cause and effect is the middle way. It believes that the happenings of our life “is not bound by this life but is related to this life”. What we are experiencing now is not the effect of only this life but is not unrelated to this life. We can change our destiny by seizing the present moment. Fatalism overemphasizes the effect of past karmas on this life while neglecting the effect of our effort in