Electronic Pest Repeller - prevent killing at home
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I just bought an electronic pest repeller 2 days ago and it has been effective in repelling all pests (ants, cockroaches, lizards, mosquitos, flies etc.) at home. In fact, it uses ultrasonic sound wave that creates a noisy sound that irritates the insects and invite them to leave your home (it does not kill them). The sound wave does not affect human beings or pets at home.
I'm glad to find such product at a electrical appliance shop as it can prevent my family member from killing at home. I've been practising no killing at home for quite sometime. But still, it might seem "irritating" to find insects at your home (esp. when you find so many ants on table and you have to 'clean them up'. In some cases, one might have fear (irritation) when one find a cockroach on your bed. In some cases, we have resorted to killing them. This creates bad karma. Killing creates heavy bad karma act and the results would normally be a reduction in your lifespan (you have to pay for it). Buddhism has taught us to practise compassion and avoid any form of killing.
Now, I would advise all buddhist to get an electronic pest repeller at home. It repels away all pest at home, keep your home clean and furthermore, you will be able to practise no killing. It's a way in which we can practise buddhism in our daily life.
For more info about electronic pest repeller, refer to
http://www.electronicpestrepeller.com/Pest_products.htm
You can find electronic pest repeller in most electrical appliance shops in Singapore.
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I am totally against all things electronic as it is not retro and have radiation which is harmful to the human body. :(
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still is killing wat.
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Please have some form of scientific knowledge. The Buddha says one must not have any form of ignorance. Right view and right thoughts are the key to wisdom.
Ultrasounds are used in the medical field esp. in medical sonography used as a form of medical imaging to visualize muscles, tendons. It's used to visualize foetuses in pregnant lady during routine and emergency prenatal care. It does produce any harm or risk to the human body. You can refer to medical journal for references: Hangiandreou, N. J. (2003). "Physics Tutorial for Residents: Topics in US: B-mode US: Basic Concepts and New Technology - Hangiandreou". Radiographics 23 (4): 1019.
When used against insects, it does not kill them. Many insects have good ultrasonic hearing and most of them are nocturnal insects listening for echolocating insects. Insects who hear ultrasound tend to make evasive manoeovre to escape being caught or eaten by other predators such as bats (known to use ultrasonic wave to detect their prey). Thus, towards cockroaches, ants, ultrasounds generators are designed to fighten them away. This will cause them to leave your home. But it will not kill them.
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buddhism oso teaches u to embrace all life forms.
why chase them away?
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Actually, I'm also kind of in a dilemma. I play buddhist chanting music at home. If these insects can hear the dharma. It's also good. I embrace all life forms, but not all my family members do.
My father always resort to killing these insects, as he does not practise buddhism. Some of my family members regard these insects as disgusting...esp. cockroaches. I try to prevent my father from killing. Rather than causing the death of these insects, I would rather chase these insects away so as to save their lives. At the very least, their lives can be saved, rather than being slaughtered unwittingly.
Amongst the 10 evils, killing carries the heaviest bad karma. It is important amongst all buddhist to save all lives. No killing is also one of the 10 goods practised by buddhist. Thus, though it appears that I'm chasing away these sentient beings making them feel unwelcomed, I'm preventing them from being killed in my home by my family members who do not practise buddhism. I'm saving their lives and warning them from approaching a place where they might be killed. In this way, it's equal to releasing life. I'm pretty sure that my decision is right and fits with the dharma.
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Dude does this insect repellent really work? And if you have one in kitchen the insects will not come to bedroom as well?
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Electronic repellent is effective for the beginning. Subsequently, the insects will come back. I gave up using .
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play Kenny G - confirm all living beings will siam far far.
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yhow i am interested. how much is one ? do you need to put one in each room and in kitchen different cabinets?
have to change the gadget every 1 year ? where do they sell this product?
plse share more details.
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Originally posted by Leogirldreamer:
yhow i am interested. how much is one ? do you need to put one in each room and in kitchen different cabinets?
have to change the gadget every 1 year ? where do they sell this product?
plse share more details.
One gadget is good enough for one home. There are various brands and different types of reviews online on how effective they are in repelling insects. Anyway, some reported it wasn't effective. Some reported it was effective. So it's up to you to try out. It costs around S$45-60 per gadget and can be found in most electrical appliance shops. I suggest you do more survey online on various brands on their effectiveness, and make sure it has no harm to human/pets and do not kill insects, only repel them away.
Just google online to see which brand you prefer. I'm now trying one at home (actually without doing any survey) just to see if it's effective. I just stumped upon it in one electrical appliance shop and bought it straightaway, since my mind is filled with "I want to prevent killing at home". My wife put it near the kitchen where there are more ants and cockroaches. Sofar, it has been effective.
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if a mosquito is supposed to bite u, then it is your karma, according to the logic of karma.
if u use insect repellent, u're interfering with your karma from playing itself out too.
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Originally posted by whylikethatah:
if a mosquito is supposed to bite u, then it is your karma, according to the logic of karma.
if u use insect repellent, u're interfering with your karma from playing itself out too.
Nincompoop!
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Originally posted by whylikethatah:
if a mosquito is supposed to bite u, then it is your karma, according to the logic of karma.
if u use insect repellent, u're interfering with your karma from playing itself out too.
The Buddha said ‘Volition, O monks, is what I call actions’. In other words, when there is intention, there is karmic action which results in the consequences of character forming and determines our inclinations and thus our future actions and reaction. What you are referring to ‘as your karma’, are what other religions would term as ‘fated’ or ‘destiny’ which Buddhists do not believe in.
Frankly, if one’s dwelling is kept tidy and clean, where conditions are not right for their survival, such as the availability of food, these insects would shift their dwelling elsewhere and there would not be any need of mechanical devices to keep them away in the first place.
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Originally posted by Aik TC:
The Buddha said ‘Volition, O monks, is what I call actions’. In other words, when there is intention, there is karmic action which results in the consequences of character forming and determines our inclinations and thus our future actions and reaction. What you are referring to ‘as your karma’, are what other religions would term as ‘fated’ or ‘destiny’ which Buddhists do not believe in.
Frankly, if one’s dwelling is kept tidy and clean, where conditions are not right for their survival, such as the availability of food, these insects would shift their dwelling elsewhere and there would not be any need of mechanical devices to keep them away in the first place.
it's 'fated' or 'destiny'? really ?
so much for buddhists always saying 'oh, the person is suffering due to his/her karma.' so that also is the same thing u're saying really. karma is always going hand-in-hand with its results, the vipaka. just like how the mosquito is supposed to bite u. since everything is also an effect and cause. :)
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It is just a repeller - not a killer/zapper it seems.
So doesn't that mean it's like a lock on our door - to deter things that we don't want in our house?
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Originally posted by whylikethatah:
if a mosquito is supposed to bite u, then it is your karma, according to the logic of karma.
if u use insect repellent, u're interfering with your karma from playing itself out too.
Mahayana buddhist do not believe in a 'fixed karma' (定业), i.e. karma that does not change. There are countless of repentence sutra and dharani (mantra) devoted to changing one person's life through changing one's karma and extinguishing bad karma (ç�定业）.The buddha has realized that one's destiny and suffering can be relieved through changing one's own karma (action). By changing your karmic action, your fortune or life can be changed towards happiness. That's why most buddhist temples in Singapore has countless of repentence dharma service devoted to relieve the sufferings of many, effectively to change the karma through repentence, vows (and a variation in cause and effect).
Take for instance, a person is supposed to live for 30 years according to his own 'fixed karma'. However, if he continue to save lives and engage in releasing life, he might be able to live for another 20 years or more. This is changing one's destiny through doing good.
Do not be naive to believe that karma cannot be changed. Bad karma can be relieved through great repentence and doing good. I myself have undergone great sufferings through my past bad karmic action. But I've changed my karma through doing good, releasing life and engage in many repentence dharma service. My sickness is almost cured. My mind is full of less evil thoughts (it purifies my mind). This is changing one's life destiny. The most powerful force for change in my life is GREAT REPENTENCE for the evils I've done in this life such as killing and sexual misconduct.
Buddhism talks about 戒定慧 （三å¦ï¼‰- precepts, concentration, wisdom (three learnings). The precepts are done to prevent further evils from being carried out. I'm now practising precepts (æŒ�戒） in my daily life to prevent killing and to save life. After sometime, I will practise concentration and wisdom (that is for learning meditation).
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Originally posted by whylikethatah:
it's 'fated' or 'destiny'? really ?
so much for buddhists always saying 'oh, the person is suffering due to his/her karma.' so that also is the same thing u're saying really. karma is always going hand-in-hand with its results, the vipaka. just like how the mosquito is supposed to bite u. since everything is also an effect and cause. :)
Why not read my write-up 'A perspective on Karma & Free will' around 10 article down from this one first?
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Originally posted by yhjow:
Mahayana buddhist do not believe in a 'fixed karma' (定业), i.e. karma that does not change. There are countless of repentence sutra and dharani (mantra) devoted to changing one person's life through changing one's karma and extinguishing bad karma (ç�定业）.The buddha has realized that one's destiny and suffering can be relieved through changing one's own karma (action). By changing your karmic action, your fortune or life can be changed towards happiness. That's why most buddhist temples in Singapore has countless of repentence dharma service devoted to relieve the sufferings of many, effectively to change the karma through repentence, vows (and a variation in cause and effect).
Take for instance, a person is supposed to live for 30 years according to his own 'fixed karma'. However, if he continue to save lives and engage in releasing life, he might be able to live for another 20 years or more. This is changing one's destiny through doing good.
Do not be naive to believe that karma cannot be changed. Bad karma can be relieved through great repentence and doing good. I myself have undergone great sufferings through my past bad karmic action. But I've changed my karma through doing good, releasing life and engage in many repentence dharma service. My sickness is almost cured. My mind is full of less evil thoughts (it purifies my mind). This is changing one's life destiny. The most powerful force for change in my life is GREAT REPENTENCE for the evils I've done in this life such as killing and sexual misconduct.
Buddhism talks about 戒定慧 （三å¦ï¼‰- precepts, concentration, wisdom (three learnings). The precepts are done to prevent further evils from being carried out. I'm now practising precepts in my daily life to prevent killing and to save life. After sometime, I will practise concentration and wisdom (that is for learning meditation).
lol. karma is karma, where got 'fixed' or its opposite 'unfixed'.
if you think your sufferings have decreased, how would u know it's due to all your chanting or 'repentance' etc. again, it COULD be due to your merits accrued in previous lifetimes(karma and its effects). u're not a buddha so u won't know. so it's just speculation to me.
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lol seems like someone who is 100% buddhist, who follows all of the texts can't live in a modern society/
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Originally posted by whylikethatah:
lol. karma is karma, where got 'fixed' or its opposite 'unfixed'.
if you think your sufferings have decreased, how would u know it's due to all your chanting or 'repentance' etc. again, it COULD be due to your merits accrued in previous lifetimes(karma and its effects). u're not a buddha so u won't know. so it's just speculation to me.
ä¸‡æ³•çš†æ˜¯æ— å¸¸ã€�ä¸�å®šæ³•ï¼Œæ³•æ³•å› ç¼˜ç”Ÿï¼Œå› ç¼˜ç�嘛ï¼�那有å�˜ä¸�了的呢？说定业ä¸�å�¯è½¬ä¹Ÿèƒ½è½¬ï¼Œæ²¡æœ‰ä¸�转的；ä¸�å�¯è½¬çš„是‘缘’ä¸�具足。当知法法都是相对的，没有ä¸�能转，ä¸�管什么善æ�¶ä¸šéƒ½èƒ½å¤Ÿè½¬å�˜ã€‚（All dharma are laws of impermance. Laws of dharma are born with causes and conditions. With causes and conditions being extinguished, how can there be no change? To say that "fixed karma" cannot be changed is equal to karma which can still be changed, without anything that is unable to change; What cannot be changed is when the "condition" is not satisfactory (or have not ripened). When one realize that laws of dharma is relative and that there is nothing that is unchangeable, what is good or bad karma can be changed.)
Causes and effect can be changed. The karma is "fixed" because many sentient beings are bounded by their own self-attachments and they have decided they do not want to change their own karma. This is why "fixed karma" are hard to change. The Buddha only shows you the way, but if you do not follow his way or walk the path he shows you, it's useless. Only with your own enlightenment can you change your own karma.
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2. It is said that fixed (very strong) karma cannot be changed. Yet, it is also said that all phenomena are created by the mind. Are these statements contradictory?
Bear the retributions of karma according to the conditions, but do not create new misfortunes.
Whether a person ascends to heaven or descends to hell, the conditions are created by his mind. This is because all our actions in deeds or words are initiated by our thoughts. Good or virtuous thoughts beget good deeds, or karma, that eventually recompense rebirth as a human being or in the heavens. Evil thoughts, on the other hand, lead to evil karma that responds by rebirth in the animal, hungry ghost or hell realm as retribution.
Fixed karma cannot be changed; it is already fixed that at a particular time one definitely has to bear the consequence either as a retribution or reward. It is like a vine bearing sour grapes, it is impossible to change that. Only by sowing good seeds can one expect the grapes to be sweet. To change the fixed retribution due to fixed karma is not an easy thing to do. It can only be changed after receiving the due retribution. Therefore, one should bear the retributions of the karma according to the conditions, but must not create new misfortunes.
http://www.jenchen.org.sg/vol5no4g.htm
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Realisation: Is There Fixed & Inescapable Karma?
The foolish are trapped by karma, while the wise are liberated through karma. - Stonepeace
In the Buddhist teachings, there is occasional speak of the phenomenon of irreversible 'fixed negative karma' - karma created that is so strong, so powerful that even lots of fresh positive karma created later seems to be unable to dilute its effects in time. An example would be if someone kills their own parents. Such a deed is deemed so atrocious and evil that one is bound for rebirth in the hells for a very long time. Yet, at the same time, there is speak that there is no such thing as fixed negative karma, because karma is really dynamic like every other phenomenon in the universe, and therefore is subject to change. How can we reconcile these two seeming opposing points of view?
When we first come across the idea that there could be such thing as fixed negative karma, it is natural to feel a great sense of dread. But that probably is a skilful teaching in itself, because this dread has the power to deter us from even thinking of doing evil that is similar in heinousness. Instead it urges us to do more good, so as to go against any evil tendencies. This teaching thus has a preventive function, whether it is true or not. However, it is true that it can be difficult to make up for a serious evil deed. What if one's guilt for such evil done is so strong that it leads to severe despair? Is there any hope left? Even if there is fixed karma, it will come to pass, because it is impermanent in nature.
Whether there is fixed karma or not, whether evil was done or not, we should strive to do as much good as possible to repent for misdeeds, to create 'fixed positive karma' (whether this is possible or not). But what's the point of doing so if fresh positive karma might be unable to counter ill effects? It doesn't matter! Even if 'destined' to suffer, there would at least be abundant positive karma for thereafter! A powerful way out of fixed negative karma is to create the karma for birth in Pure Land with thorough repentance and the aid of Amitabha Buddha's boundless merits. There, we are bound for enlightenment due to its excellent Dharmic environment - via irreversible positive karma! - Shen Shi'an
Your karma is only as dynamic as you are in changing yourself. - Stonepeace
-------------------------i think in general, we all must die one day no matter what, no? :)
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there's indeed "fixed" or very strong karma in Mahayana. karma is most powerful that not even Buddhas can change. that mean it had already reached the ending stage in the sour grapes example. u can't turn the grapes sweet inside. what u can do is add sugar? :) æ³•æ— å®šæ³• mean there's no fixed medication/method.
Shurangama Sutra got example:-
And there were the mighty King Crystal . . . . Crystal exterminated the Gautama clan. [He] sank into the unintermittent hell while still alive. (SS VII 86)
"King Crystal and the Buddha were supposedly relatives, though in fact they were not. King Crystal's father, also a king, wanted to marry into the Gautama clan. Since the Gautama clan was a more honorable one than the king's, the members of the Gautama clan did not like the idea. No one wanted to give a daughter to the king in marriage, but they didn't dare refuse outright, because the king was powerful. A refusal might have resulted in a lot of trouble. Finally they decided among themselves to send one of their servant girls, a particularly beautiful one, and pretend she was of the Gautama clan. King Crystal was an offspring of that marriage.
"Once, while the king was still a child, someone built a temple for the Buddha, complete with an elaborate Dharma Seat.. When the seat was finished, but before the Buddha himself had ascended the platform to sit on it and speak Dharma, the child who was to become King Crystal climbed up and sat on it. The Buddha's disciples and the donors who saw him all scolded him, saying, 'You're the son of a slave; how dare you sit in the Buddha's seat?' Hearing them call him that, he was outraged, and he said to his attendant, 'Wait until I am king and then remind me of what was said here today, lest I forget it. People from the Gautama clan say I'm the son of a slave. Remind me of that. I intend to get even.'
"Later, when he was king, his attendant did remind him, and the king issued an edict that the entire Gautama clan was to be exterminated, including the Buddha himself. When Mahamaudgalyayana got wind of this, he went to the Buddha to report. 'We have to think of away to save them,' he said. But the Buddha didn't say anything. And so Maudgalyayana loosed his spiritual powers, put five hundred members of the Gautama clan into his precious bowl, and sent them to the heavens. He thought they would be safe there. When the king had completed the extermination, Maudgalyayana told Shakyamuni Buddha, 'I've got five hundred Gautamans in a bowl stashed away in the heavens, and so the clan isn't totally gone after all. I'll bring them down now and let them go.' But when he had recalled them and took a look at his bowl, he found nothing there but blood. "Why was I unable to save them?' asked the puzzled Maudgalyayana. He wanted the Buddha to explain the causes and conditions.
"'Ah, you don't know,' said the Buddha, "On the causal ground, a long time ago, at a place where the weather was hot, there was a pool with schools of fish in it. The two leaders of the schools were named Bran and Many Tongues. The water in the pool evaporated in the intense heat, and since the people in the area didn't have anything else to eat, they ate the fish. In the end there was just a mud-hole, but even then they noticed a movement in the mud. Digging in, they found the two big fish-kings--Bran and Many Tongues. At that time, I, Shakyamuni Buddha, was a child among these people, who were later to become the Gautama clan. Seeing that the two fish were about to be devoured alive, I beat them over the head three times with a club to knock them out first.' That is why in his life as a Buddha he had to endure a three-day headache as retribution. 'Further, the fish Bran was the present King Crystal, and the fish Many Tongues was his attendant who reminded him of the words spoken by the Gautama clan to the king as a child. And so it was fated that he would exterminate the Gautama clan.' Even though Shakyamuni had become a Buddha, he could not rescue his people from the fixed karma they were destined to repay."
http://online.sfsu.edu/~rone/Buddhism/BuddhistDict/BDK.html
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Yes. I did some research online and found out the 5 most graviest evil that are considered worst "fixed karma" that even Buddha cannot change it. They are known as
五逆罪
(Wu Ni Zui - Five Worst Bad Karma/Sins).
They include:
Killing of father �父
Killing of mother ��
Killing of arhat �阿罗汉
Damaging of Buddha's body (including burning or damaging of Buddha statue) 出佛身之血
Damaging of harmony of Sangha community (including forced damaging of temples, causing the Sangha community to disperse) ç ´å’Œå�ˆä¹‹åƒ§
These are 5 worst evil in Buddhism. According to Lotus Sutra 法å�Žç»� and AbhidharmakoÅ›a-bhÄ�á¹£ya 倶èˆ�è«–, committing any of the following evil will be reborn into Avicinaraka 阿鼻地狱/æ— é—´åœ°ç‹±( the worst and lowest level of 8 hells) where one undergo extreme torture. Sentient beings reborn into Avicinaraka do not have any hopes of freeing oneself.