不懂因果，行为颠倒

Also stated in the Abhidharma-kosha-shastra is that some children may suffer the effect of seriously negative karma that their parents accumulated. If children can suffer the consequences of their parents’ negative karma, is it not contradictory to the Buddhist teaching that one reaps what one sows and that no one can assume other’s karma? The Abhidharma-kosha-shastra explains that these children themselves already have certain negative karma. Due to the close relationship between the parents and their children，the ripening of the children’s negative karma may be expedited when the parents committed extremely evil karma. There are many such documented cases both in the East and the West. Generally speaking, it is very difficult to directly prove the existence of causality because our eyes cannot look beyond this life for causes from the past lives and effects in the future lives. Nonetheless, through indirect means, as shown by the example above, it is possible to prove the link between cause and effect. Not only is samsara conditioned by causality, but also nirvana and liberation. Therefore, if it is liberation that we seek, we must plant the seed of liberation, which will then yield the fruit. Such is the view of Buddhism.

《俱舍论》里也讲，有些父母造了很严重的罪业，他们的子女会感受到这个报应。如果父母造业、子女受报，岂不是与佛经所讲的自作自受、不能被他人代受的说法相矛盾了吗？《俱舍论》解释说，这些子女本身就有那种恶因的存在，当父母造了大恶业后，由于他们与子女的密切关系，就促使子女的恶因提前成熟而感受果报。对此，古今中外有很多公案可以证明。通常来说，想要直接证明因果的存在是很难的，因为我们的肉眼无法看见前世的因和后世的果，但是用间接的方法，如上述的例子，就完全可以证明因果的相续存在。不要说轮回是受因果的制约，就是涅槃和解脱也被它控制。所以，如果我们想解脱，就要种解脱的因，有了因就一定有果，这就是佛教的见解。

The cardinal doctrine of Buddhism is dependent arising of all phenomena, which encompasses a broad range of subjects. From the perspective of Relative Truth, it means that when there is cause, there is effect. Life’s sorrows and joys，separations and reunions, in fact, all phenomena come with their own respective causes. Some we can see, some cannot. Only very special kind of persons can grasp the whole picture. But cause and effect always go hand in hand, never alone. No cause, no effect, and vice versa. If one is in pursuit of happiness, one must sow happiness to reap happiness. The seed of happiness is virtuous action. To avoid suffering and misfortune, one must not give rise to their causes. The cause of suffering is doing evil. Being foolish and ignorant，ordinary people try to reap happiness by sowing suffering. For example, nowadays many people try to prolong their own lives by killing and eating all sorts of animals. Aren’t the means and the purpose completely contradictory to one another? Sadly, this contradiction has been evident in many other aspects of our life today.

佛教的见解是缘起，缘起包含了许多内容，从名言谛来讲，就是有因必有果。现今一切悲欢离合等形形色色的事物，都有各自的因，其中有一些因是我们可以看见的，有一些则是肉眼无法看见的，唯有特殊的人才可以全面知晓。有因必然有果，无因就不会有果。若渴求人天福报或快乐，就要去种快乐的因，快乐的因就是行善；若想避免痛苦和灾难，就不要种痛苦的因，痛苦的因就是造恶。凡夫由于愚痴和无明，欲求快乐果却反种痛苦因，比如时下许多人杀害各种动物，用它们的血肉和生命换取自己的延年益寿，这岂不是完全的颠倒吗？其余的事情也都是这样。

Hence, without the correct understanding and the discernment of cause and effect, ordinary people may end up doing wrong most of the time and be forced to taste the unexpected, bitter fruit afterwards.

所以，如果凡夫对因果没有一个正确的观点和取舍，则所做的多半是错误的，由此而感受的，也将是他们意想不到也不愿接受的苦果。