Buddhism claims everyone’s good fortune and material enjoyment have its
cause and effect, and are only partially affected by the effort of this life and largely
determined by the cause of good or evil karma in the past life. Good or evil karma in
the past life affected the richness and poverty of this life; good or evil behavior in the
present will affect the richness and poverty of the future life, hence there is cause and
effect ethical-view cycling from the past, into the present, and into the future -
continuously. Buddhism claims good and evil affect principles: “good will be rewarded
with good, and evil with evil”, so it encourages people to do more good things to affect
their good fortune, i.e.: change one’s destiny by changing one’s own deeds – to do
ethically good [wholesome] deeds. It is said that “never avoid doing good deed no
matter how trifling; and never do evil deed no matter how trifling.” The purpose of the
Buddhist cause and effect theory is to teach people to neither violate social and natural
principles, nor violate social-ethical standards in business and corporate management.
This ethics guarantees the rules of equal transactions in the market-economy, and the
Buddhist cause and effect theory guides the ethical views in people’s mind, and appeals
that one should not use immoral/unwholesome approaches to gain personal profit.
Good-cause breeds good-effect, evil-cause breeds evil-effect. There is another slogan:
“you reap what you have sown” – emphasizing the consistency between well-being and
happiness – wholesome deeds accumulate merit, evil deeds accumulate disaster