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What is the cause of a person who is born ugly?
hermitwin
Veteran
According to a Buddhist book I read,
people with bad temper will be reborn ugly.
People who are drunkards will be stupid when they
are reborn.
Have you heard of others?
people with bad temper will be reborn ugly.
People who are drunkards will be stupid when they
are reborn.
Have you heard of others?
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I'm not sure I agree with this definition of karma. It lays misfortune on "past lives". I think karma is mostly effect that we will experience in the now. And negative karma merely determines whether we stay in samsara and into which realm we may be rebirthed. I don't know a whole lot about it though since there are so many ways to interpret it. I'm very open-minded to what karma is.
other examples: if one is wealthy in this life, it means one was generous in previous lives. If one is good-looking in this life, it means one was kind in past lives. One can surmise one's actions in past lives by looking at the one's present-life conditions, is the teaching. Take it or leave it. There is a sutra that says that the workings of karma are so complex as to be "imponderable". Yet these teachings on how actions affect future rebirth also come from sutric text. (Which some might say is a later addition.) And so it goes, around and around. This is the discussion in a nutshell. Hermitwin, if you're not a student of the Mahayana, you can ignore this issue. Although members have said they've run into strong cultural beliefs of this kind in Southeast Asia. I think there are many principles in Buddhism that are misunderstood by lay people, and these misunderstandings can take hold in the popular imagination and become "conventional wisdom".
http://www.bodhicitta.net/The Wheel of Sharp Weapons.htm
"So, then, according to this view, owing to previous action men will become murderers, thieves, unchaste, liars, slanderers, covetous, malicious and perverts. Thus, for those who fall back on the former deeds as the essential reason, there is neither the desire to do, nor effort to do, nor necessity to do this deed, or abstain from this deed."
That's from buddhanet, but I do not know where their source is from.
I however have the perfect balance between manly ruggedness and being a pretty boy. A nice square jaw yet handsomely smooth and tan skin. Angular yet robust features. Full lips with a small mole right on the left upper side. I don't mean to brag but before I gained the weight girls wouldn't leave me alone, in this it was almost a blessing.
so as you can see. it really doesn't matter what you come with into this world. we all have choices to make. it's up to the individual.
now whether or not these things occur based on past karma, it really doesn't matter. karma is just simply cause and effect.
so really all one can do is work on themselves now.
and if our past lives karma is true, then i would of wanted to be born as someone who is ugly. why? because then i'd have all
the peace and quiet! no one would want to talk to me. Lol.
On the other hand, the Thais tend to believe that people who have physical deformities (which in some cases may affect only appearance) are born so due to karma from a past life.
:thumbsup:
With Metta
Just look around you. How many women wear makeup?
People whose faces are not normal will go to
great lengths to fix their faces.
Plastic surgery started as a profession to
help burn victims etc.
"dont judge a book by its cover"
is very rarely followed.
With Metta
Autism cant be detected at the genetic level.
in his early 20s. My first buddhist meditation class
took place when I was 19 yrs old.
There is not a single person in my family
who is interested in Buddhism or meditation,or religion.
Well, there is one in a strange cult.
But that is another story.
And I come from a very big family.
How do you explain that?
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-tibetan-book-of-the-dead/
With Metta
what I am saying is that although past life kamma can manifest itself in misfortune or good fortune in the next life, and the conditions or environment we are born into; past life kamma cannot force us to do actions or follow a particular path in the present. I believe that a person has free will to choose what actions they wish to do and kamma from a past life has nothing to do with this. I think to suggest that kamma from a past life is why you became a Buddhist, to me suggests that you think that your life is already mapped out for you when you were born and your just going through the motions. This I disagree with, you make your own path in life is what I believe.
With Metta
Though, I can't rule out the possibility that subtle mindstreams with a karmic propensity for a particular disease also share a propensity for particular families. It just seems wildly unlikely.
But, in Thailand I have seen many people with birth defects that are resigned to a life of begging (although this is beginning to change). And the Buddhist Thais see this as kamma, and even see it as a way to gain merit when they give the beggars coins. It's not like here in the States where despite most handicaps it is still possible to have a successful life.
With Metta
But Ajahn Brahm suggests that many things we do
are due to conditions. So, how much of it is free
choice. I am beginning to wonder.
Your obsession with worldly things does not demonstrate much.
I do not notice you participating much in the Emptiness discussions.
Are you comparing yourself to Ajahn Brahm?
Too many 'self-views' and too much brainwashing, for me.
:eek2:
Ajahn Brahm, Ajahn Brahm, Ajahn Brahm...blah, blah
:wow:
Every time a man ejaculates, there are a few
hundred million sperms.
That means potentially a few
hundred million unique individuals.
You & I were the chosen one.
Stuck in delusion, trying to protect ego, upholding you are "good" and another is "evil"?
Did you have a good listen to the whole of the video about Ajahn Brahm?
:buck:
It requires a female egg to produce an individual.
Female has one egg per month and can breed say one child every 12 months.
Your opinion has no basis in reality.
:dunce:
:cool: