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What is the correlation between international adoption, karma, and rebirth?

ArtFishPeaceArtFishPeace
edited August 2011 in Buddhism Today
I am new to understanding Buddhism and karma and rebirth. I was adopted from South Korea before I was born, and arrived in the USA when I was three months old. My question is how does karma work with rebirth since my ethnic and regional origin was from Korea? Would my past lives, including past Karmic influences, have been of Asian descent? Would this cause some kind of karmic discord because of cross-culture confusion?

Thank you for your help :)

Comments

  • MountainsMountains Veteran
    edited August 2011
    Not to my knowledge. You could just as easily have been reborn as a butterfly or a fish as a Korean or an American. I don't think rebirth has anything to do with the color of your skin or your national identity...
  • CloudCloud Veteran
    Your karma in this life only has to deal with what thoughts, speech and actions you intentionally perform. Whatever woes befall you in this world, they will result from your own karma, from the karma of those who lived before you, or by circumstance (conditions/causality).

    Ethnicity and culture don't factor into karma, as far as I understand.
  • LincLinc Site owner Detroit Moderator
    http://newbuddhist.com/discussion/11995
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