Karma Story of Buddhist Ethics

Author(s): Paul Carus
Publisher: Chicago Open Court Publishing Company

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- AMONG THE ROBBERS.
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In my younger years I was very hard on other people; because I now reap the harvest of my evil deeds I have no reason for complaint."
As he had grown in kindness toward all beings, his misfortunes only served to purify his heart; and his chief regret, when thinking of his reduced means, was that he had be
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come unable to do good and to help his friends in the vihâra to spread the truths of religion.
Again years passed on and it happened that