RE: "This worm is your mother"
October 10, 2020 at 9:59 pm
(This post was last modified: October 10, 2020 at 10:05 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
In a word, no.
In the context of those beliefs there's no "better" form of life, and no essential you. A life as a worm and a life as a human being are only vehicles, all of them necessary and deserving of similar consideration. It isn't really for your worm mom, either, but for your own conscience. Getting stuck on ideas like these is what gets us stuck in the worms and the hoomans in the first place. Incurring a debt or attachments pursuant to worry about what you may have done to your reincarnated mother, lol.
It's useful to point out that this cute little story about respect for worm life doesn't match with the reality of tibetan buddhism - where serfs were mutilated in a theocratic caste system as an identifier, or because they broke some ceremonial prohibition, or for fun.
In the context of those beliefs there's no "better" form of life, and no essential you. A life as a worm and a life as a human being are only vehicles, all of them necessary and deserving of similar consideration. It isn't really for your worm mom, either, but for your own conscience. Getting stuck on ideas like these is what gets us stuck in the worms and the hoomans in the first place. Incurring a debt or attachments pursuant to worry about what you may have done to your reincarnated mother, lol.
It's useful to point out that this cute little story about respect for worm life doesn't match with the reality of tibetan buddhism - where serfs were mutilated in a theocratic caste system as an identifier, or because they broke some ceremonial prohibition, or for fun.
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