I am reading Pabhongkas Lamrim and in it he says that even if someone does negative wishes in front of buddha statues etc. they become a cause for enlightenment. The example he uses is the wish never to attain enlightenment (he does not mean the bodhisattvas wish to not attain enlightenment until samsara is emptied). He says that this is because of the
of the action in front of a virtuos object.root-merit
How is this to be understood? This does not make sense to me. My idea of karma, cause and effect was that negative intentions can never lead to positive results. Just like an apple tree seed cannot yield potatoes.
Toenail