Karma, my foot !

LeDuKhanh wrote:

Anh Hẹ và các anh chị thân mến,
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Thảm họa Nhật Bản thật là bi thảm, điều này không cần phải nói nữa. Nhưng có lúc tôi chạnh nghĩ không biết có phải là do  Thượng đế đã trừng phạt dân tộc Phù Tang vì những tội ác tày trời của họ trong quá khứ hay không ?

Các anh chị còn nhớ là khi Nhật đảo chánh Pháp ngày 9 tháng 3 năm 1945 hay không ? Sau đó bọn Nhật đã đổ gạo xuống sông Hồng khiến 2 triệu người miền Bắc phải chết đói (để tránh bạo động) . Và khi Nhật tiến chiếm Trung Hoa trong Đệ nhị  thế chiến thì họ đã giết không biết bao nhiêu triệu người Hoa vô tội. Người ta nói ''cha ăn mặn con khát nước'' theo luật nhân quả, thật là đáng buồn mặc dù nước Nhật ngày nay đã hoàn toàn đổi khác .
 
Thế giới vô thường, không ai đoán được ngày mai. Mong là chúng ta tìm được bình an trong tâm hồn...
Một lần nữa, xin chúc các anh chị cuối tuần vui vẻ .

Khánh

Before & after the sunami - Xem cảnh biến đổi trước & sau  khi động đất trên cùng 1 ảnh
chỉ việc dùng mouse để di chuyển qua lại tùy ý "đường phân chia thẳng đứng" trong mỗi ảnh qua link dưới đây:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/japan-quake-2011/beforeafter.htm
 

I don't know who LeDuKhanh is and what kind of formal education he has obtained, but his thoughts about "karma" and  the tragedy involving the earthquake and the resulting tsunami in Japan would be best to remain private and not aired in cyberspace as they would do harm to Vietnamese-Japanese relations. In addition, his views were simply wrong for the following reasons:

1. Karma should involve human actions only, and have nothing to do with acts of nature. 
2. It's getting more common and indeed correct and scientifically sound to call incidents involving earthquakes, floods, volcanic eruptions, and the like as natural disasters or acts of nature, and no longer as "Acts of God". We live in 21st Century now and anybody who has a high school education should know why and how those acts of nature take place. They absolutely have nothing to do with the will of God. Just like God, if there is indeed such an entity, didn't use AIDS as a punishment tool for homosexuals, as the American evangelical preacher Robertson alleged. 
3. To attribute the current plight and suffering of the Japanese people from the earthquake and the tsunami as a result of the past sins and horrible misdeeds of the previous Japanese generation who took part in WW II misadventures is disingenuous and patently false and ignorant. The destruction occurred because it so happened that Japan is situated in an earthquake-prone area. 
4. What the Japanese military did to the Chinese and Vietnamese during WW II were indeed horrible and inexcusable. However, that should not give LeDuKhanh any right to resort to Schadenfreude and the slippery concept of karma (which does not involve acts of nature anyway) to explain the reason for the current suffering of the Japanese people. LeDuKhanh has a right to nurture undying hatred of the Japanese for what their military personnel did to the Vietnamese. He also has a right to be unmoved, unconcerned, and indifferent to the earthquake and tsunami tragedy. And he also has a right to free speech and air his wacko, infantile mode of thinking in cyberspace, but we, part of the more enlightened and rigorous-thinking group of Vietnamese, have a duty to let the public know the views of LeDuKhanh don't reflect the mainstream thinking of the Viet people. In fact, the Viet people prefer letting bygones be bygones (note our current friendly, not toxic, relations with both France the U.S., the two countries which also wreaked havoc on our land and the people). We should let the world, especially Japan, know that we are the people who practice compassion and forgiveness, and thus view the current suffering of the Japanese people with much sympathy, and not with indifference or smug satisfaction.