Subhuti asked Guatama Buddha "How do you expiate negative karma?"

Paraphrased from a friend who has his master's in History of Buddhism and Sanskrit from UCLA.

Subhuti asked Buddha "How do you move on from negative karmic Actions?"

Buddha said something like: "This is the ONLY way that this can be done."


Buddha: "You will be doing something in your incorrect mind stream one day and some time you will be a little more extreme in your actions which will create a disaster in someone else's life. At this moment you will realize that you have done serious harm to this person's life and you that moment take a vow never to do this kind of harm anymore. And so you change permanently that moment to a better person than you were before."