For example, there is a very well-known hell punishment for lust that makes the person who is lustful see a beautiful lady or a handsome man, who rushes to hug him/her; only to have the lady/man, turned into a burning red-hot pillar. The sufferer is immediately being scotched to ashes. Suddenly a wind blows by, and he is revived again, totally forgotten what has happened just a second ago. Then again the process is repeated until the karma ends. I believe this system is to erase lust from our character that was formed during human life. Thus we are not allowed to use our memory to guide us like in human life, but to let us repeat this enaction till it is eradicated. And the suffering will only stop when the karma for lust ends. In other words, it's only when this character trait is totally erased then we can be freed from this lessons.
So I asked this question before: if we are free from such sins, then why do some of us still have such bad karma to go through in life? Aren't we suppose to 'finished' all our bad karma in hell already?
So while chanting the scripture, a realization suddenly come to me - those karma in life is to repay other people. Our own nature is wiped clean, like a totally clean slate in hell. The reason why we still have to go through karma on earth is because of the web karma we did. The parents we have, who will lead us to be either good or bad; are all seeds that we sowed before, that will either lead us to heaven or doom. Which is separated from our nature. Because a baby is truly pure to begin with.
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