Shuohua20130104 02:25
(Master Jun Hong Lu’s call-in radio program)
MAKE SPECIFIC PRAYER REQUEST TO BODHISATTVA IF WE WISH TO UTILISE OUR MERITS TO ELIMINATE NEGATIVE KARMA
Caller: You often say that the prerequisite for the elimination of negative karma is to have merits. Merits are accumulated when we perform recitations and when we recite the Eighty-Eight Buddhas Great Repentance; we also make wishes to eliminate our negative karma.
My question is, when we perform other types of virtuous deeds, like liberation of captive lives and/or helping others, is the negative karma eliminated automatically or do we need to make prayer requests, for e.g. “I would like to utilise this merit to eliminate my negative karma”?
Master Jun Hong Lu: You would have to make a prayer request stating which specific negative karma you wish to eliminate.
For instance, you may pray “Today, I am going to liberate 300 fish. May Guan Yin Bodhisattva help me, xxx, eliminate my negative karma” and it will be eliminated accordingly. Otherwise, when there is no prayer requests made, it will be conserved in your bank of merits.
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