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You don’t get to live a bad life and have good things happen to you.

If you’re a bad person and something that most would consider good happens to you. Let’s say you won the lottery. Here’s what will happen. You won’t appreciate it, or even if you do, now you’ll be afraid of losing that money. If you’re not afraid of losing the money, then you’ll spend it all on things that make your life worse. If you don’t spend it irresponsibly then you’ll think you’re better than others and start to mistreat other people. If you don’t mistreat them, then you’ll be too generous and they’ll take advantage of you making you hate them, if you don’t… I could go on and on covering every possible negative scenario there is. Here’s the point:

If you’re living a bad life, then no matter what happens to you, you’ll find some way to add a negative aspect to it because whatever you are as a person is whatever the world around you will become. It is the impossible to posses bad traits without directing those at life in one way or another. Same goes for the opposite. Positivity. If you’re living a good life, then no matter what happens to you, you’ll add a positive aspect to it. The world is whatever you are. So if you’re living a bad life where bad things happen, you may want to examine yourself first because you don’t get to live a good life and have bad things happen to you. You’ll see the bright side, if you don’t, then your dark one will also explain everything. Either way, rest assured. Neither you nor anyone else will ever get away with anything.
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Dhammapada, Chapter 1, verses 1 and 2:-



[i]Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-wrought. If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.

Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-wrought. If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts happiness follows him like his never-departing shadow[/i]