Refrain from Killing and liberating lives.

Extracted from the book "The Stories of Refraining from Killing & Liberating Lives"

Upasaka Wang said, "There are bandits everywhere. People wage war all the time. May the Honoured One be kind and compassionate and help the living beings with your golden arms.: The High Sanghan laughed and said, "If people could liberate lives and refrain from killing, they would be Free from disasters and calamities." After saying that he closed his eyes and sat in meditation...

Today's world is a world of war, famine, epidemics, natural disasters and man-made calamities which occur one after another. The reason behind these happenings is the karmic effect of killing. They are not brought upon us by ghost, spirits or demon. The above incident was recorded to warn the worldly people to refrain from killing. If a man could refrain from killing, he would be free from disasters and calamities. If a family could refrain from killing, it would be free from disasters and calamities. If the practice of non-killing could be extended to a village, a county, a province and the whole country, the people therein would reap the reward of being free from disasters.
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If all man follow do the right thing, the right thing being those 2 paragraph extracted from the book. We will never have to spend so much of our national budget on military hardware to defend or to attack. Those money will goes to education or health and social welfare for the country. It could be also better spend on agriculture and the economic development of 3rd world countries eliminating famines that are causing unnecessary casualties. This is good karmic effects when killing stops and no one have to feel threaten of their existence.