What If I Do Something Wrong?

Question 0

What is impurity?

Answer 0

Pollution. More powerful than purity, and gives a sense that purity is fragile and easily disrupted

Question 1

What is purity?

Answer 1

Something that is free from contact with the impure. Nothing is there that shouldn’t be there

Question 2

What’s the easiest way to stay pure?

Answer 2

To not get impure from the start. Preventative

Question 3

Prohibition vs. abstinence?

Answer 3

Prohibition- we don’t have those things

Abstinence- I don’t do those things

Question 4

How do we deal with impurity?

Answer 4

Changing what you think about it
Changing the way we do things (replacement)
Cleaning/bathing
Forms of asceticism (like fasting)
Transcendence- pure and impure do not exist

Question 5

How is karma changed?

Answer 5

Certain rituals counteracts or alter the impact of prior actions. For example. The prascitta is a ritual to correct mistakes

Question 6

How do you remove karma?

Answer 6

Raise your spiritual temperature “burn it off”
Do more good
Asceticism

Question 7

Concerns over intention?

Answer 7

How much karma binds you?

Is your intention good enough?

Question 8

What is forgiveness?

Answer 8

The gods decide you don’t suffer the consequences of your actions. Idea of grace