An exception would be if a thousand people are dying of starvation and there is no other way to save them except by selling alcohol to them, then in that case it is better to sell it than to refuse them.Selling alcohol, unless one has a great purpose

My very dear Jason,Thank you very much for your kind letter, I am sorry it took so long to reply. To purify the past negative karma that you mentioned, please do these practices and follow this advice:

My very dear Jim,Thank you for your long letter, which I read. I am sorry it took a long time to reply. I have been traveling in India, Nepal, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and now in France.

Student's letterI am writing to you because I am totally desperate. Here is my story:I have been a Buddhist since March 1999 and I have always had a profound respect for the life of sentient beings, for example, I don’t kill flies or mosquitoes.

The three ways that negative karmas become purified are:1) The best way: One never experiences the suffering results of the most powerful negative karmas.

My very dear mother,I heard that you had a very hard time when you were staying with __. I just want to remind you of two quotations from the great bodhisattva Shantideva. The first quotation is basically about accepting one’s own karma.

My very dear Elizabeth,Regarding your comment about Buddhism failing you, this is just because you are thinking only about this life, so you are not thinking correctly.

Karma becomes powerful when there are many people gathered together. For example, if one hundred people all gather together with the intention to kill a sheep and they kill a sheep, everyone receives the negative karma of killing that sheep.

In some ways, you can say even just looking at flowers is an expression of your mind. In your view, you see so many different plants, leaves, and flowers of incredible designs and shapes, each having its own beauty.

My most dear, most kind, most wish-fulfilling one,Thank you very much for your kind letter.