Important Knowledge in the Pure Land Teaching
淨土小常識
174 - The Classification of Cause and Effect (8/11）
(5) Augmentative Results Affecting Others
The previous category concerns the environment; this one concerns other people. The most typical example is the saying: “When one person attains the Way, even the chickens and dogs ascend to heaven.”
III. Pure Land Classification of Cause and Effect
The Pure Land tradition has a distinctive system of classification: “self-cause, self-result” and “other-cause, self-result.”
“Self-cause, self-result” means that one creates a cause oneself, produces the result oneself, and personally bears the outcome. One reaps what one sows.
“Other-cause, self-result” means that one person creates the cause, and the result that should properly fall upon that person, due to special conditions, manifests in another person. This may seem contrary to common sense, yet such phenomena do exist in the world.
174 因果的分類 (續 8 /11)
（五）與他增上果
前面是講環境，與他增上果是講旁人的，最典型的就是「一人成道，雞犬升天」。
三、淨土宗因果分類
淨土宗特有的一種分類方法：一個是「自因自果」，還有一個是「他因自果」
「自因自果」，就是自己做的，產生了果報，自己承受，自作自受。
「他因自果」，就是某一個人做的，果報應該產生在他身上，但是一種特別的因緣，這種果報在另外一個人身上展現出來了。按說這有點不符合常理，但是世間就有這樣的事。
Namo Amituofo!
