Karma Lab: Plant happy seeds for flowers

Kazushi Okamoto; Bita Enayati, Yuichi Asakura; Ananda, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

How to Grow Vegetables Directly From Seeds in Your Garden (gardentech.com)

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If You Plant Seeds of Happiness (K. Okamoto)

We're going to start a new series of classes on Japanese Mahayana Buddhism that focuses on each concept taught in Buddhism:

Wednesdays will be about learning the basics of karma (intentional actions capable of producing subsequent resultants and ripening as fruit/circumstances).

The following are excerpts from the book If You Plant Seeds of Happiness, Flowers of Happiness Will Bloom by Kazushi Okamoto:

“The first step on the road to happiness is not blaming things on your destiny, even when you feel that 'Things just don’t work out well for me...'”

Who's the author. Why did he write this book?

“How do we feel when unexpected things happen? When it’s something good, we think, 'Gee, I’m lucky!' When, on the other hand, it’s something bad, we ask, 'Why me?' Or we think, 'It’s not my fault — [because] it was just a piece of bad luck.'”

“So when something unexpected happens, which is to say, when something [the] cause [of which] we cannot determine happens, we use expressions like 'luck,' 'coincidence,' or 'chance.'”

Choices, choices. What is KARMA?

“But let’s stop and think about the matter. If [we] look up 'chance' or 'coincidence' in the dictionary, the definition is, 'Something that occurs without a cause.' But are there in fact things that happen without causes?”

Let's learn the wisdom teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha. More

• Karma Lab: You Can Change Your Destiny As Much As You Want, Right Now (Long Beach, CA Meetup)
• Support the cause by PayPal or Venmo to Bita Enayati at bitae22@hotmail.com. More than funds, this will provide encouragement to help continue bringing the teachings to the public. It's not the amount that matters, but the desire of contributors to be part of a cause greater than ourselves.