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Meaning: You reap what you sow
悪因悪果 is a Japanese proverb that means “Evil cause, evil effect” or “Bad causes bring bad results.”
The English equivalent is probably, “Sow evil and reap evil” or more commonly, “You reap what you sow.”
Note: 悪因悪果 is also considered to be a Buddhist phrase encompassing the idea of karmic retribution.
Below are some entries from our dictionary that may match your Evil Cause Evil Result search...
| Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
業 业 see styles |
yè ye4 yeh hajime はじめ |
More info & calligraphy: Karmadeed; act; work; performance; (personal name) Hajime karman, karma, "action, work, deed"; "moral duty"; "product, result, effect." M.W. The doctrine of the act; deeds and their effects on the character, especially in their relation to succeeding forms of transmigration. The 三業 are thought, word, and deed, each as good, bad, or indifferent. Karma from former lives is 宿業, from present conduct 現業. Karma is moral action that causes future retribution, and either good or evil transmigration. It is also that moral kernel in which each being survives death for further rebirth or metempsychosis. There are categories of 2, 3, 4, 6, and 10; the 六業 are rebirth in the hells, or as animals, hungry ghosts, men, devas, or asuras: v. 六趣. |
凶相 see styles |
kyousou / kyoso きょうそう |
(1) (See 人相占い) bad luck (result from fortune telling); (2) evil countenance |
業病 业病 see styles |
yè bìng ye4 bing4 yeh ping goubyou / gobyo ごうびょう |
(sensitive word) incurable disease (due to evil deeds in one's past life); chronic affliction Illness as the result of previous karma. |
煩悩 see styles |
bonnou / bonno ぼんのう |
(1) worldly desires; evil passions; appetites of the flesh; (2) (Buddhist term) klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering) |
煩惱 烦恼 see styles |
fán nǎo fan2 nao3 fan nao bonnō ぼんのう |
to be worried; to be distressed; worries (out-dated kanji) (1) worldly desires; evil passions; appetites of the flesh; (2) (Buddhist term) klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering) kleśa, 'pain, affliction, distress,' 'care, trouble' (M.W.). The Chinese tr. is similar, distress, worry, trouble, and whatever causes them. Keith interprets kleśa by 'infection', 'contamination', 'defilement'. The Chinese intp. is the delusions, trials, or temptations of the passions and of ignorance which disturb and distress the mind; also in brief as the three poisons 貪瞋痴 desire, detestation, and delusion. There is a division into the six fundamental 煩惱, or afflictions, v. below, and the twenty which result or follow them and there are other dual divisions. The six are: 貪瞋痴慢疑 and 惡見 desire, detestation, delusion, pride, doubt, and evil views, which last are the false views of a permanent ego, etc. The ten 煩惱 are the first five, and the sixth subdivided into five. 煩惱, like kleśa, implies moral affliction or distress, trial, temptation, tempting, sin. Cf. 使. |
狂亂往生 狂乱往生 see styles |
kuáng luàn wǎng shēng kuang2 luan4 wang3 sheng1 k`uang luan wang sheng kuang luan wang sheng kyōran ōjō |
Saved out of terror into the next life; however distressed by thoughts of hell as the result of past evil life, ten repetitions, or even one, of the name of Amitābha ensures entry into his Paradise. |
Variations: |
bonnou / bonno ぼんのう |
(1) worldly desires; evil passions; appetites of the flesh; (2) {Buddh} klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering) |
The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
| Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
| Evil Cause, Evil Result | 悪因悪果 | akuin akka / akuinakka / akuin aka | ||
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