Why would someone choose to reincarnate into a bad life?

[lifer76]

Why does anyone want to climb Mount Everest? Go to war? go to space?

We are infinite beings and this is the greatest way to experience limitations, what someone sees as a bad life, for an eternal soul will be a great ride, a great experience that may be less than a second in the overall scheme.

[O]

Originally Posted by lifer76

Why does anyone want to climb Mount Everest? Go to war? go to space?

We are infinite beings and this is the greatest way to experience limitations, what someone sees as a bad life, for an eternal soul will be a great ride, a great experience that may be less than a second in the overall scheme.

Exactly!

[Nymea]

Sojourner2013 that is the best description of reincarnation I have ever heard. Thank you!

[Busby]

You have no choice. All that you have ever thought, said and done all adds up to a 'total' and this total is visible today at this moment in where you are now. The only way in the future is 'the middle way'.

[Tristran]

Justice, payback, universal Karma.

IMHO it wouldn't surprise me if an evil arms dealer dies and gets reincarnated as a child in an African nation where they then get a taste of their own weapons dropping on their heads.

Karma always comes back to bite the attacker sooner of later.

Crumbs, even witches understand the basic fact concerning curses where if a curse is not justified then that curse will always return to the witch (attacker) 10-fold.

[Busby]

Originally Posted by Tristran

Justice, payback, universal Karma.

IMHO it wouldn't surprise me if an evil arms dealer dies and gets reincarnated as a child in an African nation where they then get a taste of their own weapons.

Karma always comes back to bite the attacker sooner of later.

Crumbs, even witches understand the basic fact concerning curses where if a curse is not justified then that curse will always return to the witch (attacker) 10-fold.

Karma isn't about retribution.

[Tristran]

Originally Posted by Busby

Karma isn't about retribution.

What is karma then ?

[Busby]

Originally Posted by Tristran

What is karma then ?

Karma is quite simply cause and effect. It has to do with our actions and the actions of everything else depending upon their cause. Everything that happens has a cause. In most cases the cause isn't visible, knowable or traceable, but everything is connected and influences everything else. You know - if a butterfly flaps its wings in China... If I may take you as an example: Who you are, where you are, how you look, what you wear, how you speak, your relationship with 'George', all of this and more as you stand in life today is the sum total of everything you have ever done. If you were a member of ISIS that would be the result of everything you have ever thought about, talked about and done. The challenge is to understand that what you do unto others and to other things - chopping down forests leads to erosion for example, so try only to do those things which add to mankind's benefit.
Karma takes place now, nowhere else, just in the Now. Now is also the only eternity, that's where we all are. All in the state or condition that we have caused. There is no one else to blame.
This doesn't alone mean that a rich and handsome man has made good decisions it's just that all his decisions have led him to be rich and handsome - the wheel turns and what goes up comes down - and goes up again and down again until we change it. We have to understand that if we were only interested in one another's welfare and did something about it we'd have a different world.
Without ISIS for example.

[TheImmortal]

What about the possibility that one "jumps into" a "bad life" by being attracted to something/someone but not being detached/pure enough to see the Big Picture? Suddenly, after the fact, one realizes that, if they had been pure enough to have seen the Big Picture, a different course of action might have been taken.

This does not negate what has been written previously. I only present it as still another possibility.

[Melahin]

Originally Posted by Tristran

What is karma then ?

I was once visited by an energy called Karma during a dream, it was simply a stream within the great current of the cosmos. It simply showed that it was a force you could choose to evoke on your chosen path (so you do not get lost)... something that dissolves when a life is ended.