In the US? Worse, much worse. We’d have kings and queens at this point. The rich would make sure that their wealth always came back to them.
Why? In a world where everyone is reincarnated, what value does life have? If you get jealous of someone, you can kill them and kill yourself. If you have no material wealth, you have nothing to lose.
The “value” is the ability to escape from the cycle and exist outside of this world. Self realization is the goal. And to be able to understand the concept on a level that can get a person out of here means repayment of karmic debt that is tied to many previous lives. So by starting to be a good person today maybe in only a few hundred more lives we can become liberated. It’s not an easy game to beat.
It’s said that when we die everything can be accessed, every second of our life so reading the “Tibetan Book of The Dead” ( the great book of natural liberation through understanding in the between) even once we will have a better chance of closing a better life on the path of liberation from suffering.
I had a hard time understanding/ believing any of these concepts. But every question I had seemed to have a reasonable answer
Why? In a world where everyone is reincarnated, what value does life have? If you get jealous of someone, you can kill them and kill yourself. If you have no material wealth, you have nothing to lose.
The “value” is the ability to escape from the cycle and exist outside of this world. Self realization is the goal. And to be able to understand the concept on a level that can get a person out of here means repayment of karmic debt that is tied to many previous lives. So by starting to be a good person today maybe in only a few hundred more lives we can become liberated. It’s not an easy game to beat.
It’s said that when we die everything can be accessed, every second of our life so reading the “Tibetan Book of The Dead” ( the great book of natural liberation through understanding in the between) even once we will have a better chance of closing a better life on the path of liberation from suffering.
I had a hard time understanding/ believing any of these concepts. But every question I had seemed to have a reasonable answer