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Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Proverbs 145. The proverb today is what goes
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around comes around. Okay. Let's take a look at the note here. In English, you can
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sometimes hear this proverb reversed to have the same exact meaning. So you could
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either hear it as what goes around comes around
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but you could also hear what comes around goes around and both of them are
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supposed to mean exactly the same thing. Sometimes I do hear both. All right.
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Let's continue. If someone says what goes around comes
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around the speaker is suggesting that one's
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action may eventually come back to have consequences on one's life. So on his or
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her life, whether directly or indirectly. It is often used as a warning that if
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you do bad things, bad things will come back to harm you. But it could be used in
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a positive way to encourage people to do good things. So
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good things will return to them. Let's continue.
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Some say the earliest citing in the US comes from the book called "Donald
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Writes No More" in which it is mentioned four times or four times in that book. All right.
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Let's continue. However this idea has been around in other countries for
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millennia. For thousands of years. Okay. The Bible quote and proverb because
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it's both a quote and it turned into a proverb. "As you sow, you shall reap" has
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basically the same idea. You know , sowing the land with crops and how you do it
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you know, that will depend upon you know, how the crops grow. Really how your life
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turns out. So how you behave will turn that and will, will, will have a great
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influence on how your life turns out. It's basically the same idea.
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In addition, the principles behind karma in Buddhism
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and Hinduism expresses the same idea as well. Not only in this life, but perhaps
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for a future life through reincarnation. So if you're bad in this life, maybe
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you'll suffer more in the next life or vice versa. If you're good maybe I'll
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have a better life in the next life. All right. And we just have one example here.
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I wouldn't do that. This is just bad karma. So you know, I wouldn't do this
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even if you can get away with it. I wouldn't do it it's bad karma. It's bad
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luck. Remember what goes around comes around. You do this bad thing and you
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know maybe we'll come back to haunt you or hurt you or harm you in some way
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later or possibly in another life as well. Anyway, I hope you got it. I hope it was
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clear. I hope it was food for thought. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.