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**9uWzBx4l** · 06-13-2012, 05:20 PM

From my understanding of Karma i cant be agree with you on this Aloka but i respect your understanding and your opinion

Hi TT,

When babies were born with deformities in the 1950's as a result of their mothers being given the drug Thalidomide when pregnant, it was because of the ingredients of the drug, not because they maimed someone in a past life.

This is an article by the American teacher Ken Mcleod, former student of the late Kalu rinpoche.

"Karma Doesn't Explain Anything" ( three very small pages) which is one of 3 articles about karma on his website.

http://www.unfetteredmind.org/karma-two-approaches

excerpt:
"I feel that karma as explanation adds very little to our lives. It lulls us into the belief that there is an order to the universe, it allows us to project a universe that we would like to exist, it can be used to justify horrific inequities and rigid moral positions and in the end only replaces one mystery with another".

Anyway, my apologies, because discussing karma is diverting from the main subject of mercy killing.

06-13-2012, 05:20 PM	#8
9uWzBx4l Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 394 Senior Member	From my understanding of Karma i cant be agree with you on this Aloka but i respect your understanding and your opinion Hi TT, When babies were born with deformities in the 1950's as a result of their mothers being given the drug Thalidomide when pregnant, it was because of the ingredients of the drug, not because they maimed someone in a past life. This is an article by the American teacher Ken Mcleod, former student of the late Kalu rinpoche. "Karma Doesn't Explain Anything" ( three very small pages) which is one of 3 articles about karma on his website. http://www.unfetteredmind.org/karma-two-approaches excerpt: "I feel that karma as explanation adds very little to our lives. It lulls us into the belief that there is an order to the universe, it allows us to project a universe that we would like to exist, it can be used to justify horrific inequities and rigid moral positions and in the end only replaces one mystery with another". Anyway, my apologies, because discussing karma is diverting from the main subject of mercy killing.
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