Why Does History Repeat Its Self? ( Archived) (19)

Holding an understanding that our nature is moving energy. It much easier to understand the word Karma is moving energy.
By our own actions of body, speech and mind we are constantly creating out tomorrows. Most of us has heard the word enlightenment used, the Mahayana view runs along the lines if we cease the cause for suffering, we would escape the cyclical of suffering rebirths.

Cause and effect, without cause, nothing, that is why Buddhist study suffering to find understanding of the dependant arising of our problems.

So if you take that thought process and consider cause and effect of say; Israeli people stealing other people’s houses, killing others and so forth. I believe they are creating the seeds of suffering for themselves in future rebirth.
Likewise take a soldier in Afghanistan, engaged in killing and is killed there, could I think within hours takes rebirth inside women in place like Afghanistan where people have the karma to be killed and kill in cyclical of rebirth hard to escape…
Why symbols depicting the wheel of life are used throughout Asia and reincarnation, if examined, you might conclude is actually also the bases of Christianity, e.g. Easter.

I'd say it does. The sun goes down every evening and comes up every morning.

If your serious?
What is it that constitutes different generation?

I think history, at least the bad events from history, repeat themselves because schools do a crappy job of teaching history. All they seem to concern themselves with is memorizing dates, places, and names. They utterly fail to teach the relevance of events of the past and the lessons those events teach us, and to avoid making the same mistakes again. They turn a facinating subject into a crashing bore. As a school kid I hated history.

It was not until the History Channel appeared on TV did I begin to appreciate history and fall in love with the subject.

Why Does History Repeat Its Self?

Because the present is deaf to history, so it ha to repeat!

-John-

sadly the human race has never learnt from past mistakes and we never will.