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First we must understand that we have had countless lives in the past and will continue to have countless lives until we attain the level of a Buddha or Bodhisattva. Superstitious speculation based on Hinduism and Tibetan culture


Belief in the existence of previous and future lives gives rise to confidence in the truth of karma, the effects of actions. This confidence is based on understanding that unvirtuous actions lead to suffering and virtuous actions lead to happiness. Without this conviction, we will not abandon unvirtuous actions or perform virtuous ones. Why can this is not be true of this one lifetime?


Although we are all born as human beings, each person experiences different circumstances, such as a long or short life, mental happiness or misery, and wealth or poverty. These variations in individual circumstances arise through previous karma accumulated in former lifetimes Each person experiences different circumstances because of cause and effect. We are born to different parents in different places and come into contact with different conditions wich give rise to other different conditions. These arguements for Karma in future lives seem no better than the one I heard from Catholics as a child, saying I would go to Hell if I was naughty.


If one has no confidence in the existence of past or future lives or in the truth of the effects of karma, then one will have no appreciation of Buddhism Nonsense with a cherry on the top. Buddhism is about understanding the causes of anguish and about kindness and compasion and about IMPERMANENCE.