once said that anger leads to being reborn ugly.
Is it okay that I use that as motivation not to be angry?
I want to be beautiful.
I get the dilemma.
I mean, is this kind of thing that helps you on a very coarse level understand karma, understand
the way things are, that the mental realm also has a play in reality, that there are causal relationships, that there are consequences to your actions.
I mean, one thing I've said before about karma is even if it were totally false, that this life has any bearing on the next life, or that there is a next life,
even if that were the case, it has an incredible effect on humanity to believe it and to follow according to it.
Because if you follow that, you wouldn't be angry.
So that alone should strike a chord in people and help to see that maybe, just maybe, there's a hope that the universe makes sense.
I mean, that's really the wonderful thing about Buddhism is that it
It takes away depression.
It takes away the feeling of meaninglessness, the feeling of hopelessness.
And it shows you that the universe does make complete sense.
And a human being can understand the universe.
We have the power to understand and to see the truth of reality.
And it makes very good sense.
So people who are born ugly, there's a reason why they're born ugly.
better that's a better reason to look at this this this teaching in terms of not getting upset and depressed and angry at God or or just totally depressed thinking that that there's no meaning to the universe when you see good people suffering and bad people
prospering or when you see certain people suffering a lot and certain people suffering only a little bit some people ugly some people beautiful and so on that if you are meticulous about it if you look in detail at reality you come to see that actually it's perfectly rational and miraculous in fact that people who are beautiful do deserve it there's something that they did to get there
and it ain't lasting.
Yeah, I mean, then there's the other side of it.
Yeah, right.
Beautiful at 18, but beauty queens that are beautiful when they're young and then become, you know,
Yes, they start looking in the mirror and they don't feel so beautiful.
They've lost a lot of power socially too.
To be beautiful is also a curse because it's temporary.
Yeah, I think it's sad how fixated people become on that aspect of it.
Oh, you mean I can become beautiful if I'm just nice?
Right.
I'm doing these good deeds.
And then, of course, they're born beautiful and nice and rich and so on, even born in heaven.
And then they're like, yeah, I got what I wanted.
And they totally forget about all the good deeds they did and become miserable people.
so unless you're looking beyond the problem is unless you're looking beyond that you're going to be satisfied but then once you're satisfied by it you'll stop and you'll become a miserable person mean person and there really is the truth you can see it you gotta realize that almost any of these very old bitter people that you see that are you know bitter angry
At one time they were very happy, beautiful young people.
Something happened along the way.