..續本文上一頁s not an excuse to justify or avoid the karmic results if they were committed intentionally. A small child or an ignorant man may commit many evil deeds. Since they commit such deeds with intention to harm or injure, it is difficult to say that they are free from the karmic results. If that child touches a burning iron-rod the heat element does not spare the child without burning his fingers. The karmic energy also works exactly in the same manner. Karmic energy is unbiased, it is like energy of gravity.
The radical transformations in the characters of Angulimala and Asoka illustrate man”s potential to gain control over his kammic force.
安古裏瑪拉(Angulimala)和阿首咖(Asoka)的徹底轉變，說明了人類的潛力足以控製業力。安古裏瑪拉是一位攔路大盜，殺害過999人，我們能以他的惡行來爲他下定論嗎？
Angulimala was a highway robber who murdered more than a thousand of his fellow men. Can we judge him by his external actions
他在有生之年，證得阿拉漢果。就這樣，他跨越了他過去所造的種種惡業。阿首咖是印度中興的帝皇，他爲了擴張版圖，在戰爭中殺害了成千萬的百姓。然而，當戰爭結束後，他完全改過自新，也因此轉變了他一生。著名的曆史學家 H.G.衛爾斯，給他下了這麼的評論：「曆史無數的帝皇，有不少人締造了文治武功，但其中只有阿首咖的名字，如星星一樣照耀千古。」
For within his lifetime, he became an Arahanta and thus redeemed his past misdeeds. Asoka, the Indian Emperor, killed thousands and thousands to fight his wars and to expand his empire. Yet after winning the battle, he completely reformed himself and changed his career to such an extent that today, ”Amidst the tens of thousands of names of monarchs that crowd the columns of history, their majesties and royal highnesses and the like, the name of Asoka shines and shines almost alone, as a star,” says a well-known world historian H. G. Well.
其它與業力有關的因素：
Other Factors Which Support Kamma
Although Buddhism says that man can eventually control his karmic force, it does not state that everything is due to kamma. Buddhism does not ignore the role played by other forces of nature. According to Buddhism there are five orders or processes of natural laws(niyama) which operate in the physical and mental worlds:
seasonal laws (utu niyama) - physical inorganic order e. g., seasonal phenomena of winds and rains, etc. the biological laws (bija niyama) - relating to seasonal changes etc., the kammic law (kamma niyama) - relating to moral causation or the order of act and result, natural phenomena (Dhamma niyama) - relating to electrical forces, movement of tides etc., and psychological laws (citta niyama) - which govern the processes of consciousness. Thus kamma is considered only as one of the five natural laws that account for the persity in this world.
佛教相信人類能控製業力，但不相信一切事物都是業力所導致的，但是佛教並不忽視自然界其它的力量。根據佛法，有五種過程或自然規律，運行于我們的身心世界。
一、有關季節性轉變的自然規律。
二、有關胚胎或種子順序生長的自然生物學規律。
叁、有關道德行爲和因果的業力法則。
四、有關電力和潮汐的物理現象。
五、有關潛在意識過程的心理規律。
業力被認爲是五種自然規律中的一種，用以解釋世間的種種變化。
Can Kamma Be Changed
業力能被轉化嗎？
Kamma is often influenced by circumstances: beneficent and malevolent forces act to counter and to support this self-operating law. These other forces that either aid or hinder this kamma are birth, time or conditions, appearances, and effort.
業力經常被環境所影響，善業或不善業的形成力量支持或反對這種自我運行的業力規則。其它促成或妨礙業力的是：出生背景、時間或環境條件、外表、個人的才智和努力。
Kamma is often influenced by circumstances: beneficent and malevolent forces act to counter and to support this self-operating law. These other forces that
A favorable birth (gati sampatti) or an unfavorable birth (vipatti) can develop or hinder the fruition of kamma. For instance, if a person is born to a noble family or in a state of happiness, his fortunate birth will provide an easy opportunity for his good kamma to operate. An unintelligent person who, by some good kamma, is born in a royal family, will, on account of his noble parentage be honored by the people. If the same person were to have a less fortunate birth, he would not be similarly treated.
一個有利的出生背景或不利的出生背景能發展或阻礙業力的實現。舉個例子來說明：當一個人出生在高貴和幸福的…
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