Read, reflect, pray
Taishang Ganying Pian 01: Actions and their consequences
English rendering of the Japanese reader’s section 01. The 24 divisions are this site’s editorial divisions, not original chapters.
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English rendering
The Most High says: “Misfortune and good fortune have no fixed gateway; people summon them themselves. The consequences of good and evil follow a person as a shadow follows a body.”
Reading note from this site
This states the book’s religious worldview. It is not grounds for blaming a person for illness, disaster or abuse.
Chinese source passage
太上曰：「禍福無門，惟人自召；善惡之報，如影隨形。」
Based on the classical text and this site’s independently prepared Japanese rendering. Classical source edition