【Cultivating Ethical Behaviour】- Confession can destroy karma that you will have to experience in your next life

【You will definitely experience the result of karma that you have done and accumulated. Since the four powers can destroy this kind of karma before it starts to take effect, it goes without saying that the four powers can destroy karma whose result is indefinite. The four powers are as follows.】

He said earlier that once you have these four methods, then you will be able to overcome those [karma] that have been committed and accumulated. Things that are done and accumulated are karma which you will definitely experience. A karma that you will definitely experience is the most serious karma. It is a karma you will have to experience in your next life. If you can confess it and clear away even this type of karma, needless to mention others, needless to say the karma whose results are indefinite. Of course you will be able to overcome them. In other words, as long as you are able to confess, no matter how weighty, you will be able to confess to clear it away. Therefore, this is the true excellence of the Mahayana teaching, it is indeed, indeed. So now the next section will explain these four. These four are "the power of eradication, the power of applying remedies, the power of turning away from faults and the power of the foundation." Each one of these has "power" added to it. This means when you eradicate your current behaviors, there is a power to it.

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62B 27’21” Vol 8 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P210 LL5
English Lamrim Vol 1 P252

日常师父法语📡62B 27’21”手抄稿第8册P210 LL5

业果 : 忏悔能映蔽顺定受

【作已增长业者，是顺定受，若能映此，况不定业。】

他前面说，有了这四个办法，那么已作增长的也都能够遮止。这个已作增长是定受的，真正说定受的是最严重的业，就下一生要受。你能够忏悔，那个业都能够遮止的话，何况其他的，何况顺不定，当然更能够。换句话，你只要能够忏悔，再重的它都能够忏悔干净，所以这个大乘真正的殊胜的地方的确是，的确是。那现在下面就解释这四个，四个所谓“破坏现行，对治现行，遮止罪恶以及依止力”。那么这四个每一个加一个“力”，就是说你破坏现行有一种力量的。