Can you imagine living your life through a circle perspective rather than a timeline that abruptly begins and ends? I have never considered the belief of reincarnation to be true, until Tuesday that is. In reincarnation an individual is born, lives a normal life, dies, and then soon returns as something “new” to the ultimate reality of the whole universe. The keys word in that definition is “new”. We as students need to note that in reincarnation something is made new, and not made as an original. Throughout my life I have heard the basic definition to be something along the lines of, “When you die, you live again, but through another life.” Although, after grasping and comprehending the real understanding, I understand where individuals set the guidelines to believe in this.
I am a teenage girl therefore I believe in karma, but now in a scholarly way rather than in a catty way. Karma is the mechanism to “workout” damage, errors, or mistakes made in your first life, and being allowed the chance to “redo” them in your second life. These particular corrections may take up to multiple lifetimes to fully amend.
Although I am a Christian and believe that death results to the same life carried through to Heaven, I now have an understanding to individual’s reasoning behind the belief of reincarnation, to return to Earth as a “new” aspect.
I do agree with you that I have gotten a different perspective on reincarnation and the circular worldview. Although I also don’t believe in it, I think that it is probably a good thing for the world because people believe that what they do in this life will affect them in the next life. I also think that there is Karma but I don’t believe it will come in your next life, but I can see how these religions would believe it.
I completely agree with your view on Karma, as in I have believed in “Karma” for awhile being a teenage girl, but I never truly knew the meaning of Karma until I took this class. It was interesting to gain a different perspective on religions other than christianity and how they view the circle of life. I too am a Christian, but I thoroughly enjoyed the new material that was presented to us on this topic because it was very thought provoking and made me question my religious affiliation.