Assume that karma and reincarnation are valid: — jasonm
The "karmic" solution is that this person has to live their next life being persecuted. — jasonm
The "karmic" solution is that this person has to live their next life being persecuted. — jasonm
The problem: given the original scenario, such a person is now equivalent to the Jews in Nazi Germany - they are being persecuted. However, why aren't the people who sent this person into such a life now equivalent to the Nazis - as they are now doing the persecuting? Discuss... — jasonm
What need to happen, then, is that he takes a couple of steps back, is reborn in a simpler form - say a lizard - that has fewer and simpler choices, so that he can learn to make them correctly, before he gets another shot at the difficult ones. — Vera Mont
It is one version of Karma though not necessarily thought of as retributive, but rather as teaching the person what they failed to understand in the previous life. Yes, one also may be 'demoted' to simpler forms of life in some versions of reincarnation/Karma. Other versions have this now you'll get to experience the other side of the dynamic format. Some have both.No, that's the simplistic retributive 'solution' - — Vera Mont
You don't remember, but you can still learn and become more compassionate or whatever. Later, in some conceptions of Karma, you do remember past lives - after a lot of meditation - and can slough off the whole thing.If I am not wrong about karma and reincarnation, I guess in your "new body" and "new mind" after you born again, you are not able to remind of or having memories of your past life and the cause of your death for being a Jew in Nazi Germany. — javi2541997
you do remember past lives - after a lot of meditation - and can slough off the whole thing. — Bylaw
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