I had a question on how to reverse the effects of karma.
I am currently suffering as a result of an action I commited less than 24 hours ago. I followed suffering back to an action and further back to a thought. By choosing to view a person in a certain way I behaved in a way that I now see is very very unkind. I deeply regret my action.
My question is what can I do now to undo the effects of my action ?
- Anonymous
Hmm. I started to answer this in terms the traditional practice called the Four Opponent Powers which is a method for purifying karma, i.e., the imprints of actions which ripen into results. However, upon closer reading of your question, I see that you say you have already experienced the effect (result). That would mean that the karma has already ripened. It's finished. You can't purify results; you can only purify the causes, the karmic seeds before they have ripened.
It is possible though that the result you are experiencing right now is from a karma committed a while ago, maybe in a previous lifetime, and not the one you did just 24 hours ago. In that case the 24-hour-ago karma still needs to be purified.
Or it could be that you have just stumbled onto something that is a pattern, a habit of yours, so it's still worth purifying.
If the suffering is continuing, notice that it's not just one big monolithic experience, but rather a series of micro-experiences, each one the ripening of another cause. So hurry up and purify the karma that hasn't ripened yet. There's always a chance to change the situation.
As for the Four Opponent Powers. You've already done the first one; namely, regret. Regret is the same emotion that you would have if you just found out that you have drunk poison. You would feel that you urgently need to get it out of your system before it harms you.
The other three powers are:
Reliance (Dependence)
Remedy
Resolve (Refraining)
See text of the practice of the Four Opponent Powers here:
Best wishes and thank you for your question.
- Drimay
As per infallible laws of karma ... we reaped fruits of karma performed! Nothing in cosmic system happened of its own! If we suffered in present life... all owes its existence to bad karma performed by us in past or previous lives!
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