Important Knowledge in the Pure Land Teaching
淨土小常識
174 - The Classification of Cause and Effect (6/11)
(3) Ripened Result
A ripened result refers to causes created in this life, whose results do not appear in this life; but, manifest in future lives. Likewise, what one experiences in this life is not necessarily the result of causes created in this life, nor necessarily from the immediately preceding life—it may come from two or three lives earlier.
The cause and result do not have to occur in the same life, nor even in consecutive lives. As the sutras say:
“Even after hundreds of thousands of kalpas, karma once created does not perish. When conditions converge, one must receive its result.”
This expresses the meaning of ripened results.
174 因果的分類 (續 6 /11)
（三）異熟果
異熟果，就是這一世造的因，果不在這一世展現，而是在後世展現；這一世遭受的事情，不一定就是今世造的因，也不一定是前一世，可能是前兩世、三世造的因。不是在同一世，也不一定就是連著的一世，總之是多生之後，佛經說「假使百千劫，所作業不亡。因緣會遇時，果報還自受」，有點這個意思。
Namo Amituofo!
