"Musashi" <Miyamoto@Hosokawa.co.jp> wrote in message
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Sitting around last night with a friend
both of us were unable to translate the word
"consquences" into Japanese. We kept coming up
with 結果 which seems like "result" and doesn't
have the relationship between an action and result
that "consequence" would have.
Any thoughts?

因果、因果応報。
仏教で前世の悪業(アクゴウ)の必然的な結果として現在の不幸があるという考え
方。

南無阿弥陀仏