Kamma, Merit & Pāramī
พระพุทธเจ้าสอนวิธีแก้กรรมอย่างไร? วิธีแก้กรรมตามพระไตรปิฎก ที่คนส่วนใหญ่เข้าใจผิด!
Summary
The question is whether the popular practice of clearing kamma matches what the Buddha actually taught.
The Loṇaphala Sutta answers with salt and water: a handful of salt ruins a cup and does nothing to a river.
Aṅgulimāla, the murderer who became an arahant, shows that kamma is not a fixed fate.
Key points
The salt image changes the question entirely
What can be changed is not the salt already added but the volume of water receiving it.
Enlarging the water means merit and mental development
Not any particular ritual, but changing the quality of the one who receives the result.
Aṅgulimāla still bore the consequences
He attained and was still stoned in the street, which keeps this from being a promise of escape.
Paying to clear kamma is not in the Canon
What appears there is changed conduct and trained mind, not a payment to erase a ledger.