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Q: How do you keep a positive outlook during major life setbacks? Example: A loved one who has been in a major car accident, your honor roll teenager who has taken a turn on the wrong path, a young mother/father dealing with a child in its terrible two’s, a person dealing with vindictive in-laws, or one who has been fired from a job with no income to pay the bills? Dr. Gardiner: The teachings about Karma can help here, but they are not ironclad. That is, Buddhists say some things that happen may simply be “random” and not the result of Karma (i.e., one’s actions in the past). Curiously, both of these teachings–one on responsibility and the other on randomness–suggest that one ought best let go of obsession with “injustice” in some situations because what is happening is just what has to hap- pen. To learn to accept it with humility and love and to move forward, is often the healthiest, and wisest, human response. But this view toward injustice does not extend to urging an attitude that would passively permit harm to come when it is within one’s power to prevent it.

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