Overheard tonight in a restaurant, a man making bad karma.

If what goes around comes around, if every action has a cause and a result, if we reap what we sow, then this guy I overheard tonite is going to have some tough times ahead.

I think he was American. He was on the older side, kind of good looking, maybe a little of the less seedy former CIA types that one runs into all over the world, especially where women go for cheap. He was talking to a young guy who was nodding, but not paying too much attention. The guy was bragging a bit about how he had set himself up here in Thailand. He was actually bragging a lot. He had a place in town and a something in the rural area. He had gotten it all for cheap. He was making his dream. No problem there.

Then his voice got louder and louder and he got more and more excited. There had developed a fatal flaw in his perfection. He had a neighbor who had a shop in the next house. The neighbor made furniture in his house. His work and his tools make a lot of noise. Big loud imitations of power tool noises! And now the guy was practically screaming and so pissed off..He had no tranquility in his home and the fucking neighbor wouldn't stop and the fucking police don't give a shit and there are no fucking laws in this fucking country to make the neighbor stop making noise that is disturbing this guys tranquility.

Aside from the fact that this guys companion looked like he wanted to crawl into a hole, aside from the fact that no one else eating there could possibly have another thought than this guys disturbed tranquility, aside from all that, there is the Buddhist thing.That is that if you want something you have to be it. In this case, if the guy wants to not be irritated by noises that he doesn't like, he has to stop making unpleasant noises himself. I am willing to bed the farm on the fact that this guy has no concept that he is actively (very actively) creating exactly that which he is railing against.

I know I should have approached him humbly told him that I have all the answers, but, you know, I didn't want to create the karma for that happening to me next time I am being an ass hole.