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Originally Posted by FallingLeaves
while all you say sounds good, in my experience it fails on the basis that any attempt to avoid bad karma ultimately just creates a different kind of bad karma. So attempted avoidance of bad karma is not a path I would now tread. I have to live with the consequences for what I do, and that is that.
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Karma means both actions and the fruits or results. Judge says that avoidance of the bad effects is not possible, but lessening that effect is possible by manifesting good actions. Those good karmic deeds or thoughts or words will set in motion new karma and meld with any past good karma to produce future goodness.
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Aphorisms on Karma says, in part: "(13) The effects [of negative karma] may be counteracted or mitigated by the thoughts and acts of oneself or of another..."