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Originally Posted by nowheretorun
the idea of reincarnation is presented as a method of creating value in THIS lifetime so that one is not required to return in an endless cycle of suffering and rebirth
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Close but no cigar. We're not supposed to be reborn, reincarnated or even be alive - it's all a big mistake and we're all trapped in this cycle which needs to be ended, for all of us - not as individuals.
I wouldn't say "value", value for others perhaps - but for you as an individual it requires a complete loss of ego and doing whatever people ask you to do, even if it's considered to be bad. Since I can't mention religion, I can't go into details. But let's just say that if you were vegan and someone offered you a piece of rotten meat - you would have to eat it because you couldn't deny that person the good karma. And you can't do good things -because- you want good karma, you have to do them because you want to do good.
It also requires a complete loss of desire, including the desire to end the cycle.
And when you get to the point where you're released from your human vessel and you have the option to end the cycle for you - you can't. Because at that point, you've achieved perfect compassion and you have to help everybody else achieve the same. And so the cycle continues.
I can't stand how the theory of reincarnation and karma have gone from being about being selfless and denying your ego, to be about being reincarnated so that you can "learn" from life for your own benefit.
Same thing happened with "the secret", it annoys me so much.
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