🌱 Being an Orphan Is Not Random: Understanding Life Through the Law of Karma

In Western cultures, when a child loses their parents, it’s seen as tragic — and purely accidental.
Bad luck. Bad timing. Just the randomness of life.

But in Buddhism, there’s another layer.
Not to judge. Not to blame.
But to understand.

The Buddha taught that what happens to us in this life isn’t random — it’s a result of causes from before.

Yes, even becoming an orphan.

🧭 Buddhism Says: This Isn’t Fair. But It Is How It Works.

Let’s be honest:
The law of karma is not fair.
In fact, it can feel cruel.

You might wonder: “What did I do to deserve this? I don’t remember anything.”

Exactly. Because in Buddhist teaching, causes don’t always come from this life — they can come from past lives, where we’ve forgotten what we’ve done.

Sometimes, just a small harmful action, like separating a baby animal from its mother, can create the seed for a future life as an orphanOrphan-NotRandom.

Is that fair? No.
But it’s the law of cause and effect — not personal revenge, not divine punishment. Just how nature works in the moral universe.

And the Buddha saw this.
He saw the deep cruelty of it. And instead of turning away, he chose to teach us:

“This is how the game of life works.
If you don’t know the rules, you’ll suffer over and over.
But if you learn them — you can change your path.”

🛠 You Can’t Change the Past — But You Can Build the Future

You didn’t choose your childhood.
But you can choose what kind of adult you’ll become.

You can:

• Choose to be kind — even if no one showed you kindness.
  
  

• Choose to create a family of care — even if yours was broken.
  
  

• Choose to stop passing pain forward — and start planting compassion.
  
  

This is where Buddhism gives hope.
Karma isn’t about guilt. It’s about growth.

The past explains where you are.
The present shapes where you’re going.

🧘‍♀️ You Are the Designer — But You Need to Understand the Blueprint

Think of life like a complex game.
You didn’t choose your starting level.
But once you understand the mechanics — you can play smarter.

The Buddha taught:

• Learn what creates suffering (like harming others, anger, selfishness)
  
  

• Learn what builds peace (like generosity, patience, wisdom)
  
  

• Don’t repeat past mistakes
  
  

• Do good — not just for others, but for your own future mind
  
  

Karma isn’t instant.
But it’s cumulative.

🌧 A Hard Life Doesn’t Mean You’re Worth Less

This is important.

If you’ve lost your parents, or grown up with abandonment, hardship, or neglect — it doesn't mean you're cursed.
It doesn’t mean you're worse than anyone else.

It means you’re living out the consequence of past causes, but you now have the power to plant new seeds — for yourself and others.

And no one can take that power from you.

✨ Final Thought

If karma were lenient…
If pain didn’t follow cruelty…
If every life started from zero, clean and clear…

Then maybe the Buddha wouldn’t have taught at all.

But he saw the truth — that life can be painfully unfair, and deeply confusing.
So he chose to teach out of compassion.
To help us stop spinning in cycles of suffering.

You don’t need to remember your past life.
You just need to live this one wisely.

Because from this moment on — the pen is in your hand. 

Source in Thai: https://kalyanamitra.org/th/article_detail.php?i=9872