Originally posted by Isis:
What if you were told by a person that in ur past life, you had killed a cow and has killed some living things in ur previous life
And find it hard to believe... but either do u brush it away...
Mm but what if u really did kill some living things in ur past life... any things u can do now to help to alleviate these living things's hatred towards u .. assuming that they hate u in the first place ?
first, i think we have countless of past lifes in beginless time, it's hard to imagine that none of them, we never commit killing before.
normally if one person say do mass killing in billion of years ago, the karma would have been diluted by now. though, there might be subtle karma effect whereby people would dislike this person. therefore i kind of think it's how recent was the karma commited and how heavy was it. (note that i'm not saying there's no exceptional cases.)
if it's of single or few cases, yes, it can be resolved, using compassion, transfering of merits toward them. make them no longer hate u per se. best they also learn Dharma and resolve their hatred by themselves. if however, they have their revenge with u, and u ended it by not hating them back, then the karma ends here.
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