Why bad things happen in Buddha?
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Our brothers and sisters in the monotheistic religions often struggle with the question of "why bad things happen to good people?" As some of you know my wife, Mary has gone back to school to become a hospital chaplain. She told me recently that in her class - made up entirely of students from the monotheistic religions that they struggled with this very question. If their concept of God is all powerful, all omniscience and all compassion then why would he/she allow bad things happen to good people. Why would he allow a small baby to die a painful death?
Last week one of our member's husband was in a terrible head on car accident. The person in the other car died, and this person's husband was critically injured, but now looks like he will survive. As Buddhists we don't ask "Why did God let this happen?" Of course we may still wonder why it had to occur at all. It occurred as a result of Dependent Origination.
During his enlightenment experience, the Buddha saw that the process of 'becoming', of birth, old age and death was ultimately a circular process consisting of twelve links (nidana), each link is the condition for the one following on from it. This process is referred to as 'dependent origination' or 'conditioned arising'. Dependent origination is one of the more initially difficult concepts of Buddhism.
It refers to much more than just the cycle of life, death and rebirth. At it's basis is the foundation for karma and the idea that all mental and physical phenomena are conditioned, that is everything arises from various causes and conditions. There is nothing that you can't point to that doesn't have some cause or condition for it's existence - not only physical phenomena but also the mental states.
Let us take first an example used by the Buddha Himself. The Buddha has said the flame in an oil lamp burns dependent upon the oil and the wick. When the oil and the wick are present, when the flame is introduced the oil lamp burns. If either of these is absent, the flame will cease to burn. This example illustrates the principle of dependent origination with respect to a flame in an oil lamp.
The fact that the flame ceases in the absence of the wick and oil is important. It relates directly to the 4 Noble truths and the cause of suffering. If we remove the cause of suffering - craving, desire and attachment - then we end suffering.
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