Sometimes I listen to buddhism mp3 files mostly buddha name recitation. Does it purify karma?
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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Thanks for ur explanation.
in general karma mean Action. then purify karma mean purify your habitual Action, be it body or mind. there's this habit we have in the past that need to change.
if keep commiting bad action, how to purify into good action? do more good action until it become a good habit. :)
see....this is quite different concept from the normal brownie points concept.
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