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Since we have been bound to the wheel of samsaric existence since beginningless time, we confess every negative action that we have done in this and all other lives, actions which we did through lack of knowledge about the ripening results of karma. | Since we have been bound to the wheel of samsaric existence since beginningless time, we confess every negative action that we have done in this and all other lives, actions which we did through lack of knowledge about the ripening results of karma. | ||
Gyaltsab Je | Gyaltsab Je Darma Rinchen [LINK to the text] also points out in his commentary ''The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors'' that all karma can be overcome with confession: | ||
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|quote-text=If the created and accumulated karmas are karmas definitely to be experienced then, since they can be cleared away, what need is there to say about those that are not definite.<ref>Fedor Stracke, trans., ''The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors - A Commentary on the Introduction to the Actions of Bodhisattvas. Chapter Two: Purifying Negativities'' (N.p.: HappyMonksPublication, 2016), 15. https://happymonkspublication.org/product/bodhisattvacharyavatara-chapter-1-10-commentary/</ref> | |quote-text=If the created and accumulated karmas are karmas definitely to be experienced then, since they can be cleared away, what need is there to say about those that are not definite.<ref>Fedor Stracke, trans., ''The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors - A Commentary on the Introduction to the Actions of Bodhisattvas. Chapter Two: Purifying Negativities'' (N.p.: HappyMonksPublication, 2016), 15. https://happymonkspublication.org/product/bodhisattvacharyavatara-chapter-1-10-commentary/</ref> | ||
