In Buddhism, not one person is a good Buddhist, nor is anyone a bad Buddhist. Rather, a person may have used skillful or unskillful means, and the karmic fruit of her actions have ripened in many interesting ways.
All karma is to the Buddhist action which bears fruit according to her skills.
When an action is done with right intentions, and no harm immediately arises, that action has sown the skillful karmic fruit of no immediate result.
When an action is done with wrong intentions, and harm immediately arises, that action has sown the unskillful karmic fruit immediate result.
When an action is done with right intentions, and harm immediately arises that action has sown
no karmic fruit, but instead a previous unskillful karmic action has born fruit.
When an action is done with wrong intentions, and no harm arises, the karmic fruit of a previous action arose to delay the unskillful karmic fruit to ripen at a later time.
However, the ideal of a good Buddhist violates the non-self principle, since it is assumed that a "good Buddhist" always is good. The truth is, if he is skillful, a Buddhist creates good by mindful practice, and by following the precepts.
He seeks neither fame nor glory, lest it distract him from fulfilling the twofold aims of the Bodhi Mind: determination to save all sentient beings, and the aspiration for Buddhahood.
Should he be unskillful, it cannot be assumed that his destiny be the Hells, since previous karmic merit
also affect the results of actions taken currently. Neither can it be assumed that his destinies is to be any one of the Three Relams (Desire, Form and Formless Realms).
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