Karma – The Double Edge Sword

I’m not much of a news guy; I don’t like filling my head with irrelevant, random stuff, but still, sometimes I stumble on a dull piece of news that is interesting from a Five Element and BaZi perspective.

The other day, I read in a local news portal about an older man who was cheated by a guy who sold him a house that wasn’t even officially his. The older guy, let’s call him a buyer, cashed out over $ 200,000 only to find out a few days later that there was a mortgage on the house, which now belongs to the bank.

I found this case very interesting from a karma point of view, and I wanted to learn how it works. Now, the guy who cheated the older man, let’s call him a seller, is no doubt here against the law. He got caught, and he will go to prison for this, and probably get a few additional minus karma points for next lifetime 🙂

The interesting part is to see how karma works for the buyer. When you read the article about this case, it’s easy to feel sympathy for the buyer; he was cheated out of a large sum of money, and most people will naturally feel sorry for him. One might even question why the universe (or God, whatever you prefer) lets such things happen to innocent people; we start to doubt the righteousness of the world itself. We might ask ourselves why innocent people have to suffer for the deeds of bad people.

But the real question here is whether the buyer is really that innocent.

The article revealed that the buyer didn’t do the obvious: check the official register to see whether the house has clear ownership. Currently, such information is available online, and it would take him only 10-15 minutes to determine that something is wrong. If you are willing to spend 200.000$, it seems like a good idea. So obviously, the buyer was very naive; most people would double-check, but he didn’t. He might be innocent in the face of Earth law, but he is guilty in the face of the universe law.

Do we incur negative karma if others cheat us?

The answer is yes, and the reason I’m so confident in making such a claim is my experience with Five Element and BaZi charts.

In the Five Elements method, several concepts can indicate a negative outcome for the person. There are so-called Punishments, Harms, and Clashes, to name a few, but there are many different combinations that can bring us unexpected troubles. The Chart itself, the combination of elements which we receive at the moment of birth, is the extension of our karma. It’s a tool used by the universe to deliver good or bad karma to people.

So, for example, the buyer from our story probably had some negative occurrences in his Chart, a Punishment or Harm combination, which triggered such an adverse event. The reason he had such a combination was to learn a particular lesson, something he didn’t know in a previous lifetime. Therefore, the universe afforded him an “opportunity” to resolve that issue. If he doesn’t learn, it will probably carry over into the next life.

As we can see, in situations where one side appears evil and the other a victim, applying the Five Element rules and looking more closely reveals that neither side is entirely innocent. When karma strikes between two people, it cuts both sides.

The only question is whether they learned anything from the lesson. If not, the double-edged sword will have to cut again.

And again.

Until we learn.

This rule applies to any conflict. The person who does the wrong thing will be punished, sooner or later, while the person on the other end, “the victim,” is the one who receives punishment for crimes committed earlier.

FINELY TUNED MECHANISM

Five Element study reveals the mechanism, showing us a much broader and deeper picture of law and morality, a system which most people don’t even know exists; therefore, their judgment of people’s actions and reactions is flawed.

To judge situations and people, we have to understand these hidden triggers. It’s hard to get angry at the person when you know that something external is triggering their emotions and actions. All you can do is help them release it so that they can find peace.

When we understand the triggers, we become more forgiving toward ourselves and others, resulting in greater tolerance in society.