พระอาจารย์อธิบายว่ากฎแห่งกรรมพยากรณ์ได้เพราะสำเร็จแล้ว แต่กฎไตรลักษณ์พยากรณ์ไม่ได้เพราะขึ้นกับการชิงช่วงชิงของธรรมชาติ 3 ฝ่าย ซึ่งคำว่า ธรรมชาติ หมายถึงการเกิดโดยธรรมของฝ่ายกุศล อกุศล อัพยากตะ ที่ประมวลอยู่ในส่วนละเอียดที่สุดของสรรพสิ่งThe teacher explains that the law of karma is predictable because it has already been completed, while the law of the three characteristics is unpredictable because it depends on which nature seizes the moment. He explains that the Thai word for "nature" itself means the arising of Dhamma from the wholesome, unwholesome, and neutral, converging at the subtlest level of everything that exists.
มีผู้ถามว่า "Three Body Problem" คือปัญหาในการคำนวณการเคลื่อนที่ของวัตถุ 3 ชิ้นที่ดึงดูดกันด้วยแรงโน้มถ่วง ตัวอย่างง่าย ๆ เช่นโลกกับดวงจันทร์คำนวณได้ เรียกว่า Two Body Problem แต่หากเพิ่มดวงอาทิตย์เข้าไปกลายเป็น Three Body Problem ระบบจะซับซ้อนมากจนคาดการณ์ระยะยาวไม่ได้อย่างแม่นยำ เพราะแรงโน้มถ่วงของแต่ละวัตถุส่งผลต่อกันตลอดเวลา ทำให้ไม่มีสูตรสำเร็จทั่วไป ต้องใช้การจำลองด้วยคอมพิวเตอร์และมีความไม่แน่นอนโดยธรรมชาติ เรื่องนี้เกี่ยวโยงกับธรรมชาติ 3 ฝ่ายหรือไม่
One student asked about the "three-body problem" — the challenge of calculating the motion of three objects that pull on each other through gravity. A simple case, like the Earth and the Moon, can be calculated and is called a two-body problem. But add the Sun in, making it a three-body problem, and the system becomes so complex that long-term prediction is no longer reliably possible, because each object's gravity constantly affects the others. The result is that there's no general formula — it requires computer simulation, and there's an inherent unpredictability built in. He asked whether this has any connection to the three natures.
The Buddha Taught That Some Things Are Predictable and Some Are Not
The teacher explained that the Buddha spoke of exactly this matter of predictability. Even within science today there are two camps that still disagree: one side holds that everything is predictable, the other that nothing truly is, and neither side has been able to fully refute the other. But the Buddha taught that there is a part that can be predicted and a part that cannot. The law of karma is predictable, because it has already been completed — once the causes are fully assembled, the result that will follow can be predicted. But cannot be predicted, because it depends on which of the three natures seizes the moment, and that in turn is tied to other factors such as the people around us and our environment.
Examples of What Can Be Predicted and What Cannot
Predictable things include day and night — we can predict how many hours of daylight and how many hours of darkness there will be — as well as the seasons, predicting which regions have three seasons, which have four, and which have two. What cannot be predicted, though, is that even people living in the exact same place behave differently from one another; their thoughts and feelings differ, their ways of life differ, even within the same locale — because it depends on which of the three natures possesses them. Whichever nature manages to seize the moment takes hold as the dominant force and steers that person to act according to whatever the three natures direct.
"Thammachat" (Nature) Is a Dhamma Word: The Arising of Dhamma From the Wholesome, Unwholesome, and Neutral
So yes, this question truly does connect to the three natures. Regarding the word "thammachat" (nature) itself, our revered Luang Phor once said that while Pali preserves the Buddha's teaching in its words, Thai is itself a language. The word thammachat literally means "arising by Dhamma" — chat meaning birth or arising — and there are three kinds: , dhamma, and abyakata dhamma (wholesome, unwholesome, and neutral phenomena). Everything that exists arises entirely through these three natures. It begins at the finest, deepest level — which scientists have already demonstrated: at the deepest core of the atom lies emptiness containing a vibration of a specific frequency. This is the subtlest level — the Dhammakaya of , , and the neutral. Our revered Luang Pu once said that within the finest point of every particle, every atom, of everything that exists, the Dhammakaya of all three natures converges together.
Unusual Natural Phenomena Arise From the Three Natures at Their Subtlest Level
This is why, whenever there's turbulent weather in the sky, he would say this is the "wind" of the unwholesome nature — typhoons, hurricanes that destroy and devastate, and so on. There was once an event, during the period when the Dhammakaya International Hall was under construction, when the sky — perfectly clear moments before — suddenly formed dark clouds covering the entire sky in a frightening way, with lightning and a windstorm that tore part of the Hall's roof down. This was a result of the finest level of everything that exists, where nature operates behind the scenes. These effects cascade down to smaller and smaller levels in turn — some problem within a virus can end up controlling bacteria, and bacteria in turn controlling parasites, which then causes all manner of problems for people and beings. All of it, in the end, traces back to that same deep and subtle level within.