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Karma - Cause and Effect
Evil Cause, Evil Result
Meaning: You reap what you sow
This Japanese proverb 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.
Everything Happens for a Reason
The first two characters mean "all things" or "everything".
The middle character kind of means, "in all cases".
The last two characters create a complex word that can be defined many ways such as, "karma", "cause and effect", "fate", "every cause has its effect, as every effect arises from a cause".
Keep in mind, Chinese grammar is a bit different than English, so trust me that this makes a natural proverb that means, "Everything happens for a reason" in Chinese.
Fate / Opportunity / Chance
Buddhist idea of Fate
因緣 is the Buddhist concept of a chance meeting or an opportunity that presents itself by fate.
Sometimes this is used to describe a cosmic chain of events or cause and effect.
It also is used to describe predestined relationships between people - and sometimes married couples (although if you want one about marriage, try this: Fate / Destiny of Lovers.
因緣 can also be translated as origin, karma, destiny, affinity, connection, and relation. This all depends on context - seen alone on a wall scroll, this will be read with a "fate / chance" meaning by a Chinese person, or a Korean person who can read Hanja.
The more complex definition of this word would be, "Direct causes and indirect conditions, which underlie the actions of all things".
This concept is known as nidana in the original Sanskrit. Also sometimes presented as hetupratyaya (or "hetu and prataya") which I believe is Pali.
Note: Japanese will tend to use this version of the second Kanji: 
If you order this from the Japanese master calligrapher, expect that you’ll get this version. However, this word often carries a negative connotation in Japanese (bad things happen), as it is used that way in a certain Japanese idiom. Therefore, this may not be the best choice if Japanese is your target language.
See Also: Buddhism | Opportunity
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| Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
| Karma - Cause and Effect | 因果 | inga | yīn guǒ / yin1 guo3 / yin guo / yinguo | yin kuo / yinkuo |
| Evil Cause, Evil Result | 悪因悪果 | akuin akka / akuinakka / akuin aka / akuinaka | ||
| Everything Happens for a Reason | 萬事皆因果 万事皆因果 | wàn shì jiē yīn guǒ wan4 shi4 jie1 yin1 guo3 wan shi jie yin guo wanshijieyinguo | wan shih chieh yin kuo wanshihchiehyinkuo |
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| Fate Opportunity Chance | 因緣 因缘 / 因縁 | in nen / innen | yīn yuán / yin1 yuan2 / yin yuan / yinyuan | yin yüan / yinyüan |
| In some entries above you will see that characters have different versions above and below a line. In these cases, the characters above the line are Traditional Chinese, while the ones below are Simplified Chinese. | ||||
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| Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
信 see styles |
xìn / xin4 hsin shin / しん |
 More info & calligraphy: (1) honesty; sincerity; fidelity; (2) trust; reliance; confidence; (3) (religious) faith; devotion; (counter) (4) counter for received messages; (female given name) Yuki śraddhā. Faith; to believe; belief; faith regarded as the faculty of the mind which sees, appropriates, and trusts the things of religion; it joyfully trusts in the Buddha, in the pure virtue of the triratna and earthly and transcendental goodness; it is the cause of the pure life, and the solvent of doubt. Two forms are mentioned: (1) adhimukti, intuition, tr. by self-assured enlightenment. (2) śraddhā, faith through hearing or being taught. For the Awakening of Faith, Śraddhotpāda, v. 起信論. |
動 动 see styles |
dòng / dong4 tung dou / do / どう |
 More info & calligraphy: (ant: 静・1) motion; (female given name) Yurugi Move, stir, motion, mutable; movement arises from the nature of wind which is the cause of motion. |
博 see styles |
bó / bo2 po haku(p);baku / はく(P);ばく |
 More info & calligraphy: (suffix noun) (1) doctor; PhD; (suffix noun) (2) exposition; fair; exhibition; (given name) Hiromu Wide, universal; widely read, versed in; to cause; gamble; barter; encyclopedic |
業 业 see styles |
yè / ye4 yeh waza / わざ |
 More info & calligraphy: deed; 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; activity |
烈 see styles |
liè / lie4 lieh retsu / れつ |
 More info & calligraphy: (female given name) Retsu Burning, fierce; virtuous, heroic; burning |
累 see styles |
lèi / lei4 lei rui / るい |
tired; weary; to strain; to wear out; to work hard trouble; harmful effect; evil influence; implication; involvement; (female given name) Rui To tie; accumulate; repeatedly; to implicate, involve; fetters |
世界 see styles |
shì jiè / shi4 jie4 shih chieh sekai / せかい |
 More info & calligraphy: (1) the world; society; the universe; (2) sphere; circle; world; (can be adjective with の) (3) world-renowned; world-famous; (4) {Buddh} (original meaning) realm governed by one Buddha; space; (surname, female given name) Sekai Loka 世間; the finite world, the world, a world, which is of two kinds: (1) 衆生世界 that of the living, who are receiving their 正報 correct recompense or karma; (2) 器世界 that of the material, or that on which karma depends for expression. By the living is meant 有情 the sentient. |
公案 see styles |
gōng àn / gong1 an4 kung an kouan / koan / こうあん |
 More info & calligraphy: {Buddh} koan; kōan; Zen question for meditation (e.g. the sound of one hand clapping) J. kōan; 因緣 A dossier, or case-record; a cause; public laws, regulations; case-law. Problems set by Zen masters, upon which thought is concentrated as a means to attain inner unity and illumination; public case |
四諦 四谛 see styles |
sì dì / si4 di4 ssu ti shitai / したい |
 More info & calligraphy: {Buddh} (See 苦集滅道) The Four Noble Truths catvāri-ārya-satyāni; 四聖諦; 四眞諦. The four dogmas, or noble truths, the primary and fundamental doctrines of Śākyamuni, said to approximate to the form of medical diagnosis. They are pain or 'suffering, its cause, its ending, the way thereto; that existence is suffering, that human passion (taṇhā, 欲 desire) is the cause of continued suffering, that by the destruction of human passion existence may be brought to an end; that by a life of holiness the destruction of human passion may be attained'. Childers. The four are 苦, 聚 (or 集), 滅, and 道諦, i. e. duḥkha 豆佉, samudaya 三牟提耶, nirodha 尼棲陀, and mārga 末加. Eitel interprets them (1) 'that 'misery' is a necessary attribute of sentient existence'; (2) that 'the 'accumulation' of misery is caused by the passions'; (3) that 'the 'extinction' of passion is possible; (4) mārga is 'the doctrine of the 'path' that leads to the extinction of passion'. (1) 苦 suffering is the lot of the 六趣 six states of existence; (2) 集 is the aggregation (or exacerbation) of suffering by reason of the passions; (3) 滅 is nirvana, the extinction of desire and its consequences, and the leaving of the sufferings of mortality as void and extinct; (4) 道 is the way of such extinction, i. e. the 八正道 eightfold correct way. The first two are considered to be related to this life, the last two to 出世間 a life outside or apart from the world. The four are described as the fundamental doctrines first preached to his five former ascetic companions. Those who accepted these truths were in the stage of śrāvaka. There is much dispute as to the meaning of 滅 'extinction' as to whether it means extinction of suffering, of passion, or of existence. The Nirvana Sutra 18 says that whoever accepts the four dogmas will put an end to births and deaths 若能見四諦則得斷生死 which does not of necessity mean the termination of existence but that of continued transmigration. v. 滅; four [noble] truths |
因果 see styles |
yīn guǒ / yin1 guo3 yin kuo inga / いんが |
 More info & calligraphy: (1) cause and effect; causality; (2) {Buddh} karma; fate; (adjectival noun) (3) unfortunate; unlucky; ill-fated Cause and effect; every cause has its effect, as every effect arises from a cause; to cause and effect |
因緣 因缘 see styles |
yīn yuán / yin1 yuan2 yin yüan innen |
 More info & calligraphy: hetupratyaya. Cause; causes; 因 hetu, is primary cause, 緣 pratyaya, secondary cause, or causes, e. g. a seed is 因, rain, dew, farmer, etc., are 緣. The 十二因緣 twelve nidānas or links are 'the concatenation of cause and effect in the whole range of existence'; cause and conditions |
宿業 宿业 see styles |
sù yè / su4 ye4 su yeh shukugou / shukugo / しゅくごう |
 More info & calligraphy: Former karma, the karma of previous existence; past karma |
有緣 有缘 see styles |
yǒu yuán / you3 yuan2 yu yüan uen |
 More info & calligraphy: Those who have the cause, link, or connection, i. e. are influenced by and responsive to the Buddha; possessing the objects of consciousness |
業影 业影 see styles |
yè yǐng / ye4 ying3 yeh ying gōyō |
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業輪 业轮 see styles |
yè lún / ye4 lun2 yeh lun gōrin |
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正命 see styles |
zhèng mìng / zheng4 ming4 cheng ming shoumyou / shomyo / しょうみょう |
 More info & calligraphy: samyagājīva, the fifth of the 八正道, right livelihood, right life; 'abstaining from any of the forbidden modes of living. ' 正因 The true or direct cause, as compared with 緣因 a contributory cause. |
自愛 自爱 see styles |
zì ài / zi4 ai4 tzu ai jiai / じあい |
 More info & calligraphy: (noun/participle) (1) taking care of oneself (esp. used as an epistolary imperative); (noun/participle) (2) self-love Self-love, cause of all pursuit or seeking, which in turn causes all suffering. All Buddhas put away self-love and all pursuit, or seeking, such elimination being nirvāṇa. |
自然 see styles |
zì rán / zi4 ran2 tzu jan jinen / じねん |
 More info & calligraphy: (n,n-adv) occurring naturally (without human influence); (female given name) Minori svayaṃbhū, also 自爾; 法爾 self-existing, the self-existent; Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and others; in Chinese it is 'self-so', so of itself, natural, of course, spontaneous. It also means uncaused existence, certain sects of heretics 自然外道 denying Buddhist cause and effect and holding that things happen spontaneously. |
関係 see styles |
kankei / kanke / かんけい |  More info & calligraphy: |
集諦 集谛 see styles |
jí dì / ji2 di4 chi ti jittai / じったい |
 More info & calligraphy: samudaya, the second of the four dogmas, that the cause of suffering lies in the passions and their resultant karma. The Chinese 集 'accumulation' does not correctly translate samudaya, which means 'origination'; [noble] truth of the arising of suffering |
生きる see styles |
ikiru / いきる |  More info & calligraphy: |
一致団結 see styles |
icchidanketsu / いっちだんけつ |  More info & calligraphy: |
見義勇為 见义勇为 see styles |
jiàn yì yǒng wéi / jian4 yi4 yong3 wei2 chien i yung wei |
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で see styles |
de / で | (particle) (1) indicates location of action; at; in; (2) indicates time of action; (3) indicates means of action; cause of effect; by; (conjunction) (4) and then; so; (auxiliary) (5) indicates continuing action; (particle) (6) (ksb:) indicates certainty, emphasis, etc. |
付 see styles |
fù / fu4 fu zuke / づけ |
to pay; to hand over to; classifier for pairs or sets of things (suffix noun) dated (e.g. a letter); date of effect (e.g. a rule change); (surname) Fu To deliver, hand over to, hand down; to attach |
令 see styles |
lìng / ling4 ling rei / re / れい |
to order; to command; an order; warrant; writ; to cause; to make something happen; virtuous; honorific title; season; government position (old); type of short song or poem (n,n-suf) (1) command; order; dictation; (prefix) (2) (See 令和) nth year in the Reiwa era (May 1, 2019-); (personal name) Reiji cause |
伻 see styles |
bēng / beng1 peng |
to cause |
使 see styles |
shǐ / shi3 shih shi / し |
to make; to cause; to enable; to use; to employ; to send; to instruct sb to do something; envoy; messenger (1) messenger; (2) (abbreviation) (See 検非違使) police and judicial chief (Heian and Kamakura periods); (3) {Buddh} (See 煩悩・2) klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering); (female given name) Tsukasa To send; cause; a messenger; a pursuer, molester, lictor, disturber, troubler, intp. as 煩惱 kleśa, affliction, distress, worldly cares, vexations, and as consequent reincarnation. There are categories of 10, 16, 98, 112, and 128 such troublers, e. g. desire, hate, stupor, pride, doubt, erroneous views, etc., leading to painful results in future rebirths, for they are karma-messengers executing its purpose. Also 金剛童子 q. v; affliction, proclivities |
俾 see styles |
bǐ / bi3 pi hi |
to cause; to enable; phonetic bi; Taiwan pr. [bi4] To cause, enable; to cause |
倪 see styles |
ní / ni2 ni nii / ni / にい |
(literary) small child; limit; bound; extremity; to differentiate; origin; cause (surname) Nii |
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