Evolution of Love 2

Karma

A major Buddhist principle is that something cannot become nothing. So after death, not only does the spirit transform, the body does also in the endless cycle of transformation.

Take a candle for example. Once you light it, it begins to melt and eventually disappear.
But the elements of the candle have scattered into other forms and are absorbed into other things in their endless journey of transformation.
In other words, not a single element has disappeared.

So the problem for us becomes one of the spirit. If the spirit, too, follows the principle of cause, effect, and transformation, how are we supposed to conduct ourselves?

Today's world is filled with misdeeds. But those who are conscious of the principle of cause-and-effect would not commit any of them. Karma is what we do and what we get for it in return. So it becomes radically clear that we should lead noble lives.