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Dear Sinwei:
The below is not directly in response to you, because I don't know
your views on the matter. It just made me think of something
though, so thought I would add a little.
Whether an action has result or not is independent on whether the
recipient experiences resentment or not.
There seems the misconception at times that:
"One experiences the negative result of killing, because the person
killed will come back for revenge."
This is incorrect. Why?
Example:
A person could kill an arhat. The arhat will not have any sense of
revenge at all, and secondly, they can't come back to take revenge,
even if they wanted to, which they don't.
Yet, that action of killing an arhat will have extremely, extremely
serious consequences - direct rebirth into the low hells, for a
long, long, time.
And, as Sinwei rightly states:
A person could accidently kill something, and they may seek
revenge. Now, how could one experience the negative result (of
their revenge) without committing the karma in the first place (the
karma of intentional murder)?
Now of course, their relationship may be more complex than that,
and there may be other factors, but that would be a case of result
without karmic action.
So, again, the view that it is due to revenge is incorrect.
When one commits an action, the seeds of that action - wholesome,
unwholesome or neutral - are planted.
When the circumstances (causes and conditions) are ripe, they will
experience the results - pleasure, pain or neutral sensation /
feeling - respectively.
Huifeng
