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Originally Posted by Kendra they believe that the people who are severly disabled or ill are paying for their sins from a past lifetime. hearing about that seriously angers me to no end. it's sick. what do you people think and how do you feel about it on their belief about reincarnation? |
That's also the same for Hindus, which Buddhism draws on for its ideas about karma and reincarnation.
Why is it sick? It's simply an explanation for why things are the way they are. It's not necessarily prejudging a person as good or bad, simply that they have a physical manifestation of accumulated karma.
Plus, in Buddhism that's not important. All life is but an illusion. People suffer due to desire, which comes from the constant sense of self.
I'll stop there. I really don't feel like rambling about Buddhism right now...