Karma never chose us but we choose them instead

Question: I am new to Buddhism and a beginner to practice the Buddha-Dharma teachings and do not know much about 'Karma'. What should I do to avoid doing unwholesome or bad Karma.

Answer: As we sow, we will reap somewhere, sometime in this life or in the future birth. What we reap today is what we have sown either at the present or in the past. Karma is action and Vipaka is the fruit or result as reaction. As Karma may be good or bad, wholesome or unwholesome so is the Vipaka the fruit is good or bad. As Karma is mental so Vipaka is mental state of the mind

The Samyutta Nikaya states:

"According to the seed that’s sown,

So is the fruit you reap there from,

Doer of good will gather good,

Doer of evil, evil reaps,

Down is the seed and thou shalt taste

The fruit thereof."

"Karma" to an ordinary Buddhist serve as a deterrent to commit evil thought and action while to an intellectual being serve as an incentive to do wholesome or good deed through action and thought. Though Karma is a complex subject that binded within it, those who understood about it will becomes kind, moderate, tolerance, and considerate of others and to his /her own self.

However those who do not understand about 'Karma' but have the sincere and pure mind to perform good deeds through action and thought that bring all goodness and benefit others and to their own self are also becoming kind, moderate, tolerance, and considerate too. The Four Noble Truth and Eightfold Path of the Lord Buddha teaching is the best teacher, master and the guidelines to practice and cultivate wholesomeness to leave sufferings.

There are many Buddhists who understood and yet without any hesitation or second thought they commit all sort of bad and evil actions and thoughts and when 'Karma' retribution are seeking them, they will never stop pondering or ask 'Why me? Why not fair to me? I've been a very good person and why the Buddha and Bodhisattva have no mercy on me? and etc'. They had forgotten what they had done onto others and own self with all evil in their mind regardless whether they had committed with the intention or unintentionally thought through their actions.

The primary root cause of this happening is because of human behavior that are too ignorance and arrogance to listen to the wholesome teachings of the Buddha-Dharma and put into practice . We might have been told by those who know and understood about the Buddha-Dharma teachings to avoid evil and do goodness yet there are many who turned their blind eyes and back upon hearing that. Eventhough, we might have heard many times from others that those who create unwholesome, bad and evil karma, the consequences are unimaginable to describe however those who are not 'Mindful' enough will commit it anyway. There are times when asked to walk along the right path or Buddha path, many choose to walk along the left path, wayward path or evil path.

"Karma" is a universal law by itself, which operates on its own field without any intervention of any external influence, it is an independent ruling platform with no emotion and no mercy. The manifestation of Ignorance (avijja) within the mind, is not knowing things as they truly are and this is the primary cause of the 'Karma'. Karma never chose us but we choose them instead! Good Health and Buddha Bless! May All Sentient Beings Leave Sufferings!