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In their commentaries, both Minyak Kunzang Sonam and Khenpo Kunpal use "the force of restoration" or "the force of amendment" instead of the more commonly used phrase "the force of turning away from repeating the fault." | In their commentaries, both Minyak Kunzang Sonam and Khenpo Kunpal use "the force of restoration" or "the force of amendment" instead of the more commonly used phrase "the force of turning away from repeating the fault." | ||
< | <h3>1. The Power of Regretting That One Has Done Wrong</h3> | ||
Verses 27 to 46 explain in much greater detail the power of regretting that one has done wrong. | Verses 27 to 46 explain in much greater detail the power of regretting that one has done wrong. | ||
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Here the three kinds of result refers to the fully ripening result [LINK to glossary], the dominant result [LINK to glossary], and the result similar to the cause [LINK to glossary]. The result similar to the cause is further divided into (1) བྱས་པ་རྒྱུ་མཐུན་གྱི་འབྲས་བུ། the fruits corresponding to its actions (e.g., the fact that a person who may have been a sinner in the past life has the natural urge to do similar actions in this life, and (2) མྱོང་བ་རྒྱུ་མཐུན་གྱི་འབྲས་བུ། the fruits corresponding to its experience (e.g., the fact that a person who practices generosity in this life would become rich in his future life.) | Here the three kinds of result refers to the fully ripening result [LINK to glossary], the dominant result [LINK to glossary], and the result similar to the cause [LINK to glossary]. The result similar to the cause is further divided into (1) བྱས་པ་རྒྱུ་མཐུན་གྱི་འབྲས་བུ། the fruits corresponding to its actions (e.g., the fact that a person who may have been a sinner in the past life has the natural urge to do similar actions in this life, and (2) མྱོང་བ་རྒྱུ་མཐུན་གྱི་འབྲས་བུ། the fruits corresponding to its experience (e.g., the fact that a person who practices generosity in this life would become rich in his future life.) | ||
<h4>Fear of Dying Without Confession</h4> | |||
We may feel lazy to carry out this process of confession everyday and may wonder if it is really necessary to do it regularly. We feel that since we will be alive for a long time there is nothing wrong with leaving negative actions unconfessed. Śāntideva chides us and reminds us that death can be just around the corner: | |||
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