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Kimball defines repentance as the perfect, successful abandonment of sin, through the following actions: conviction, in which "the sinner consciously recognizes his sin." [2] abandonment of sin; confession to church authorities and/or other parties wronged by the sin; restitution; keeping God's commandments; forgiving others "Trying is not ...
The sutra emphasizes repentance by means of meditating on "the true aspect of reality" and the "Vaipulya sutras." [9] The essence of Buddhist repentance is summed up in the following lines from the verse spoken by the Buddha concerning the purification of the six sense organs: [10] [11] The ocean of impediment of all karma
The Eighty-eight Buddhas Great Repentance Text (Chinese: 禮佛大懺悔文) is a Buddhist text widely used in the repentance practice or ritual of Buddhism, especially in the East Asian Mahayana tradition, where it is recited daily in monasteries, temples, and households.
Anutāpa (repentance): a person loathes the evil he did, reminds and repeats to himself "I shall not do that again". [30] Prāṇāyāma (restraint of breath): a person does breath control exercises similar to yoga. [31] Tapas: a person performs austerity such as celibacy, wearing wet clothes till they dry on his body, sleeping on ground or ...
Pratikramana (Sanskrit: प्रतिक्रमण, romanized: Pratikramaṇa; also spelled Pratikraman) (lit. "introspection"), is a ritual during which Jains repent (prayaschit) for their sins and non-meritorious activities committed knowingly or inadvertently during their daily life through thought, speech or action.
William Holman Hunt's 19th century The Light of the World is an allegory of Jesus knocking on the door of the sinner's heart.. The Sinner's prayer (also called the Consecration prayer and Salvation prayer) is a Christian evangelical term referring to any prayer of repentance, prayed by individuals who feel sin in their lives and have the desire to form or renew a personal relationship.
Repentance (Hebrew: תשובה, literally, "return", pronounced tshuva or teshuva) is one element of atoning for sin in Judaism. Judaism recognizes that everybody sins on occasion, but that people can stop or minimize those occasions in the future by repenting for past transgressions.