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We are lucky
Namada
Veteran
Hi Folks
What are the chanses for being born as a human being?
I think its like winning in lottery, imagine all the thrillions of diffrent inscets, animals, and bacteria there are in this world.
Maybe in your next life you will be born as a worm, cow, horse, bird or even an ugly ghost. So if you are born as a nice worm, remember to keep up your duities and smile, let go and dont be angry, take care of your mother and father, you will then maybe be born as a snail. And like this it goes, build your way up to human state again with good karma.
So we are lucky for being born as humans! We won the golden ticket so use your life for a good purpose and dont take anything for granted.
Or will we come back again as humans and dont need to "hurry"?
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Comments
We sure are lucky, and should concentrate on making the most of this life... the only one we know for sure we'll get.
I wonder which is more fruitful -- to indulge in vivid imaginings and tales of other birth scenarios or 'karmic potential' or some such ... or to practice whatever practice is chosen with as much dedication as possible. I'm not against ornate tales and wishful thinking, but I do wonder how long anyone could reasonably/usefully subsist on them.
Is it lucky or unlucky to be born human? In honesty, I have no clue -- it's the farm I am stuck with. I always thought Buddhism was about tilling the soil at your feet.
I think a belief in rebirth can be useful. Sometimes I think it's easier to be kinder towards a future self than it is to be towards this current one.
I sometimes do taking and giving meditation with an imaginary 'me' in front of me; that's easy to do.
But obviously to be kind to a future self, I have to be kind to this current one.
So rebirth can be a useful belief for me. Whether it's true or not, I probably don't really think it is.
You were lucky!
If I were a cicada, I'd probably be happy too.
What do we know?
I don't know if I'm lucky or not since I have nothing to compare this experience to.
Not easy to know what will happen after death.
Ajahn Brahm could see his past lifes during meditation, have any one experienced this? What was you before you came here as human?
As humans we have the ability to self inquire, to see through the illusions of reality.
We just have to find a reason to do so. If this happends. I say we are lucky.
If I am going to go back and forth then why not try to experience as much as possible?
I don't know if I want to experience what it's like to be a rock though. If time passes for a rock, it must be such a boring existence.
Maybe a nice, tall tree. It would be nice to be sustained by my surroundings without that much effort on my part. Taking in energy from the sun, rain and earth so I can nurture others with oxygen and my seeds...
But yeah, ok, I am lucky to be alive at any rate and human is as good as anything I guess.
But now, enough daydreaming and back to the laundry. Seriously, I'm now late for my friggin laundry.
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I'm very pleased for Ajahn Brahm and his experiences. But they were his, and nobody else's, and as such, seem to be confined to those whose practice is exceptional and unique.
Such claims should be taken with a pinch of salt, in my opinion.
They are unverifiable, and the best thing is to continue to work with what you have, right now.
Came across this in the Tibetan Book of the Dead:
Now, having obtained a precious human body,
I do not have the luxury of remaining on a distracted path.