Selected Questions & Answers

Spoken By Supreme Master Ching Hai
Melbourne, Australia, March 13, 1993 (Originally In English)

Q. If a wrong is done and can cause bad karma, how can it be reversed or undone?

M. Do the opposite. Try to make up for it. Not only stop doing wrong, but you continue doing right, or start doing right. Not only do we not steal from other people, but we also help the people who are poor and truly in need. That's the true correction for what we did. For example, you have a husband and you have an affair with another man. For example, for example, please. (Laughter) Now you feel sorry about it. It is not only that you have already stopped the affair because your husband doesn't like it, but you also have to love your husband more. Take care of him more. Let him feel better. Let your family relationship become more solid and happier for you, your husband, and your children. That's the positive way of repenting our wrong deed. Not only we stop doing wrong, but we have to do right.

Once Ghandi heard a Hindu person say, "I am going to hell. I killed a Moslem, because another Moslem killed my child." Then he asked, "What can I do now? I will go to hell anyhow." So Ghandi said to him, "I know a way out of hell. If you raise an orphan to become a Moslem, you can make up for that. Maybe you will still go to hell, but at least your conscience will be clear. You'll know you have done the best to make up for the wrong you have done, and also made someone else happy. At least when you go to hell, you will go happily."