Do you hurt when someone takes something from you? Consider the other person in the same light.
Do you hurt when you act out of craving for something and take something that is not given to you? As a buddhist you should know the answer is yes even if in the moment you may not think so. Will you feel remorse. Will there be a niggling doubt. Will you cause a hindrance that will arise again and again blocking the path.
In the long run the world of commerce is one to abandon. Leave it to those who want it. Provide the path to those who do not.
A Good Dhamma book is always given. It is too valuable to put a price on so safely assume that if it can be taken, and not taken by someone else already, it is yours to take. Join a Dhamma library in the local monastery or temple and borrow books.
cappuccino wrote: ↑Thu Dec 31, 2020 9:56 pmI lost $100 recently… for a karmic reason
because I listen to music on YouTube
I should pay from now on…
What do you mean by this? Are you being superstitious, or did you get a fine, or something else?
Metta,
Paul.
"Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things."
Starting from the beggining that you are not subtracting not from anyone (theres a difference between someone losing or just not winning).
If you are doing right things with the bytes you get, theres no problem. The precept of Buddha states in the case of you take (subtract) something from someone.
In the same way the nature gives anything for anyone, early or later the human beings will learn to do the same.
Take it easy... all our good deeds have some bad behind them, and all our bad have some good.
Nobody is 100% pure. Some people wouldnt know Buddha if they hadnt downloaded that pirated pdf. That is the way the things are comming to we, today.