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"This worm is your mother"
October 9, 2020 at 5:13 pm
(This post was last modified: October 9, 2020 at 5:14 pm by Fake Messiah.)
I watched the movie "7 years in Tibet" long time ago, but still sometimes I remember the scene about the worms and I never discussed that scene with anyone so maybe now is the right crowd.
In the scene, Buddhists are digging the hole in the ground, but then they stop because they run into the worms, and they can't continue because, since they believe in reincarnation, they are afraid they will harm the worms who may have been their mother or some other relative in its past life.
But if you believed in reincarnation wouldn't you want to do the opposite with worms and small crawlers? If you saw an ant or a larva of a fly for which you knew was your dead mother reincarnated, wouldn't you want to kill it quickly so it can reincarnate into something better, maybe even into a human?
Anyway, here's the scene
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RE: "This worm is your mother"
October 9, 2020 at 5:16 pm
(October 9, 2020 at 5:13 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: I watched the movie "7 years in Tibet" long time ago, but still sometimes I remember the scene about the worms and I never discussed that scene with anyone so maybe now is the right crowd.
In the scene, Buddhists are digging the hole in the ground, but then they stop because they run into the worms, and they can't continue because, since they believe in reincarnation, they are afraid they will harm the worms who may have been their mother or some other relative in its past life.
But if you believed in reincarnation wouldn't you want to do the opposite with worms and small crawlers? If you saw an ant or a larva of a fly for which you knew was your dead mother reincarnated, wouldn't you want to kill it quickly so it can reincarnate into something better, maybe even into a human?
Anyway, here's the scene
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RE: "This worm is your mother"
October 9, 2020 at 5:27 pm
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What if they all secretly hated their mothers?
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RE: "This worm is your mother"
October 10, 2020 at 10:50 am
If only I could find a clip of the scene from Xavier: Renegade Angel where Xavier tries to give set the broken leg of a mosquito and gives this exact justification:
-What the human intimates you doing, freak? Bestial-ulating that skeeter?
-I'm just a simple warrior for peace trying to do right by God's creatures.
-You see what this weirdo here is saying?
-Wait, which weirdo?
-I believe that we are all one. By helping this tiny mosquito, in a way, I'm helping your mother.
-He's comparing the universal oneness of all life to your mama! Take that!
The episode is "Chief Beef Loco" and you can probably find it on other, non-Youtube video sites (and yes, they do still exist).
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RE: "This worm is your mother"
October 10, 2020 at 8:08 pm
Good point.
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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.
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RE: "This worm is your mother"
October 10, 2020 at 10:09 pm
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