..续本文上一页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.
安古里玛拉(Angulimala)和阿首咖(Asoka)的彻底转变，说明了人类的潜力足以控制业力。安古里玛拉是一位拦路大盗，杀害过999人，我们能以他的恶行来为他下定论吗？
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，证得阿拉汉果。就这样，他跨越了他过去所造的种种恶业。阿首咖是印度中兴的帝皇，他为了扩张版图，在战争中杀害了成千万的百姓。然而，当战争结束后，他完全改过自新，也因此转变了他一生。著名的历史学家 H.G.卫尔斯，给他下了这么的评论：「历史无数的帝皇，有不少人缔造了文治武功，但其中只有阿首咖的名字，如星星一样照耀千古。」
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.
其它与业力有关的因素：
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.
佛教相信人类能控制业力，但不相信一切事物都是业力所导致的，但是佛教并不忽视自然界其它的力量。根据佛法，有五种过程或自然规律，运行于我们的身心世界。
一、有关季节性转变的自然规律。
二、有关胚胎或种子顺序生长的自然生物学规律。
三、有关道德行为和因果的业力法则。
四、有关电力和潮汐的物理现象。
五、有关潜在意识过程的心理规律。
业力被认为是五种自然规律中的一种，用以解释世间的种种变化。
Can Kamma Be Changed
业力能被转化吗？
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.
业力经常被环境所影响，善业或不善业的形成力量支持或反对这种自我运行的业力规则。其它促成或妨碍业力的是：出生背景、时间或环境条件、外表、个人的才智和努力。
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.
一个有利的出生背景或不利的出生背景能发展或阻碍业力的实现。举个例子来说明：当一个人出生在高贵和幸福的…
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