it's benefiting, if the mind is concentrating on the
listening.
btw, u everytime want to "purify karma". to clarify the concept
of purification. impure karma is similar to darkness and
pure karma is similar to light. it's not that
it's something that is countable or something like merit points.
every time u do good, u deduct the demerit points. merit go upper
realms, demerit go lower realms. pure karma
straight away LIGHT up both and escape samsara.
see below explaination.
Question 8
From time immemorial, sentient beings have committed countless
transgressions. Moreover, in this life, from infancy to old age,
they create additional evil karma because they do not have the
opportunity to encounter good spiritual advisors. Under these
circumstances, how can it be said that “At the time of death, they
will achieve rebirth with only ten perfect utterances of the
Buddha’s name”? Furthermore, how do you satisfactorily explain the
teaching that such practitioners “transcend the binding karma of
the Triple Realm”?
Answer
In truth, it is difficult to assess the number or the strength of
the good and evil kamic
seeds that sentient beings have created from time immemorial.
However, those who, at the time of death, encounter a good
spiritual advisor and accomplish ten utterances, must have created
good karma in the past. Otherwise, they could not even meet a good
spiritual advisor, let alone accomplish ten pure recitations!
Now, lest you think that the evil karma from beginningless time is
heavy while ten
utterances at the time of death are light, I shall cite three
reasons why rebirth in the Pure Land does not necessarily depend on
the weight of bad karma, the amount of practice or the duration of
cultivation. The three reasons concern a) the Mind, b) the
conditions and c) the issue of certainty.
a) Mind
The transgressions committed by sentient beings spring from
deluded, perverse thought. Recitation of the Buddha’s name, on the
other hand, arises from right thought, that is, hearing of Amitabha
Buddha’s name and true virtues. One is false and the other is true.
There is no possible comparison between them!
This is similar to a house which has been boarded up for
ten thousand years. If the windows are suddenly opened to let the
sunlight in, all darkness immediately dissipates.
However long the period of darkness may have been, how can
it fail to disappear? It is likewise for sentient beings who have
committed transgressions for many eons but achieve rebirth at the
time of death through ten pure recitations.
http://www.purelandbuddhism.com/10Doubts.pdf
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