A friend
thought she has extreme bad luck, and her bad luck was caused by evil spirits
that possessed her body. So, she lit some firecrackers at midnight to ‘expel’
the evil spirits inside her… Consequently her neighbour lodged a police report
and the lady was subsequently fined a substantial amount of money. Seems the
firecracker exorcism ritual not only did not expel my friend’s bad luck;
instead causing her to lost money despite now she is also having very bad relationships
with her neighbours. Perhaps the incident also doubled my lady friend’s bad luck
instead!
When this
friend of mine complained to me of her unfortunate incident, I jokingly said to
her: “Perhaps you should use a grenade or dynamite to blow yourself up and that
would certainly expel all evils from your body… in addition, your body that has
brought you such a bad luck!”
Hopefully
this lady did not take my words literally and perform some suicidal attempt to
blow herself up…
I have
mentioned about ‘theory of bad luck’ in my blog:
Again,
there are many causes for one to experience ‘bad luck’. General Buddhist and
Hindu would attribute one’s ‘bad luck’ to his/her previous bad karma. I think
it is just a lame excuse to blame all to previous lives because this would make
us living in hopelessness and that we would spend this life time to repent what
we have done in our past lives. If we spent all our time and savings on
religious matters, then we would not be able to enjoy this life…
In higher
Buddhist teachings, good luck or bad luck is only relatively speaking. It is
our mind that causes this difference. If we understand how our mind works, then
we would understand that if we can be impartial to our worldly matters; then
there is no good or bad. With this view in mind, we would always live in peace.
I sincerely
hope all other friends who have the idea of ‘blowing up’ bad luck, inspect their own mind first before doing anything stupid. Anyway, if one really needs to blow
himself/herself up (not that I encourage it); please do that on his/her own and
not to risk lives of others…
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