kamma
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How do people actually see how bad their karma is and how can bad karma be cleared? Possible to do that?
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here's a compilation of karma:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/9280/kamma.htm#Contents
can go thro "Can kamma be erased? "
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Kamma is upaka, meaning results.
When you die and go to the next world, you inherit both the good and bad kamma and that determines your next birth.
If you sincerely regreted your actions, now that you know about kamma, then avoid doing the same mistakes again. The good thing is you are able to think twice before doing things and kamma deters people from committing bad deeds. -
Frm wad i feel karma can only be lighten....
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The fastest way to improve your karma is to buy some animals and set them free. Before releasing them, do chanting and take refuge on their behalf and transfer the merits to all your "debtors".
By releasing the animal, you not only spend your money to save their life, but also give them peace of mind and dharma. These are the 3 types of giving. -
i dun really like tis idea...cos is like encouraging these pple to catch the animals and let pple pay to free these animals for their own business...Originally posted by justdoit77:The fastest way to improve your karma is to buy some animals and set them free. Before releasing them, do chanting and take refuge on their behalf and transfer the merits to all your "debtors".
By releasing the animal, you not only spend your money to save their life, but also give them peace of mind and dharma. These are the 3 types of giving. -
that's why my MCK said, that there's correct way of doing this. freeing of animal should be done naturally (shui yuan). that mean when you walk passed an animal shop, you feel compassion for say the caged birds, you buy some and let them go. it should not be pre arranged where the owner know what you are doing. this way they wouldn't know and will not purposely go and catch more.Originally posted by Bryan^:i dun really like tis idea...cos is like encouraging these pple to catch the animals and let pple pay to free these animals for their own business...
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Repentance, chanting, etc, does help.Originally posted by omnipresent:How do people actually see how bad their karma is and how can bad karma be cleared? Possible to do that?
For example, my dharma teacher practises repentance 108 times a day including prostrations. She chants this verse (in Chinese - but you can do it in English too), then prostrate to the Buddha:
All the evil karma that I have committed in the past,
Arising from my aeons of greed, anger and ignorance,
Committed by my body, speech and mind,
Now I repent before the Buddha.
source: Repentance is a Demonstration of Wisdom -
how did the first karma cycle starts?
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Karma is formed when there is intentions. It has always been. There are three kinds of karma, Mind, Speech, Action karma.Originally posted by NT2:how did the first karma cycle starts?
When ignorance arises out of cause and conditions, it sets up a 'chain reaction' known as the 12 interdependant origination, and the sentient being keeps on accumulating karma until his liberation and enlightenment.If karma is not fate or predestination, then what is it? Let us look at the term itself. Karma means action, means "to do". Immediately we have an indication that the real meaning of karma is not fate because karma is action. It is dynamic. But it is more than simply action because it is not mechanical action. It is not unconscious or involuntary action. It is intentional, conscious, deliberate, wilful action. How is it that this intentional, wilful action conditions or determines our situation? It is because every action must have a reaction, an effect. This truth has been expressed in regard to the physical universe by the great physicist Newton who formulated the law which states that every action must have an equal and opposite reaction. In the moral sphere of conscious actions, we have a counterpart to the physical law of action and reaction, the law that every intentional, wilful action must have its effect. This is why we sometimes speak either of Karma-Vipaka, intentional action and its ripened effect, or we speak of Karma-Phala, intentional action and its fruit. It is when we speak of intentional action together with its effect or fruit that we speak of the Law of Karma.
But if your question is the first-cause question, then perhaps this one shld answer you."To those who talked about the first cause of this world, the Buddha responded by saying that it is impossible to find a first cause since everything is changing, interdependent and conditioned by other things. Something that acts as the cause in the present may become the effect in the future. Later that same effect may again become the cause. Such phenomenon continues ad infinitum. It is called the universal law of Anicca or impermanency.
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The real meaning of Karma, and how it really works :
http://infinity.usanethosting.com/Heart.Of.God/WayOfKarma/index.htm
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Hi Kyo, I suggest that you do not post such links because the idea of Karma in Buddhist understanding may be different from yours (i have not read the book so I do not know)... so as not to confuse readers I suggest you do not post it here. Unless you made it known somehow that it is not from the Buddhist viewpoint.Originally posted by UltimaOnline:The real meaning of Karma, and how it really works :
http://infinity.usanethosting.com/Heart.Of.God/WayOfKarma/index.htm
(case studies of pple and how karma affects them throughout their series of lifetimes)
Very sorry about it. But you are welcome to discuss your ideas...
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Not forgetting karma is not a term to be abused for personal uses
I ever seen some chaps in the forums curse others with bad karma
Not forgetting they have already commited a sin by cursing, they acted as 'righteous judges' of karma, doling out positive and negative karma
i wish i can also be some sort of omnipotent beings, a philanthrophist of good and bad karma
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yeah, this is what I worried initally.Originally posted by Bryan^:i dun really like tis idea...cos is like encouraging these pple to catch the animals and let pple pay to free these animals for their own business...
That's why I never let the seller know in advance of my purchase. and I choose a random date to buy non-carnivorous animal from a random seller. But I did tell them that I want to set these animals free, to make them feel guilty perhaps. lol.
Freeing of animal and save their life is only one of the benefits.
Most importantly, you take refuge on their behalf and let them hear buddha name chanting. They not only thank you, but will also thank buddha and 3 gems.
It also helps to promote compassion within yourself. This morning, when I release some frogs to a secret location, I really feel happy to see them appear so peaceful and happy. Since I save their life and let them hear dharma, I am their bodhisatva.
In fact, all living beings are our parents in the past and buddha in the future.
This is also why bodhisatva ksitigarba vowed to save all beings in hell, before reaching nirvana.