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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