A soul only has one *life* but many bodies to experience that life in. Having the body allows the soul to progress along it's course of evolution. Take away a soul's body and you take away it's chance to advance further at that particular time. BTW , nothing wrong with evolving in wisdom(making right choices) either.
From: "authfri...@yahoo.com" <authfri...@yahoo.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 11:59 AM Subject: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: RE: The Beast and the unborn Mike objected: Somehow, I'm not seeing how it would be possible for a soul to intentionally intend to be aborted, since the preservation of one's own life is so ingrained in our very being, an evolutionary force so to speak. Well, when we're embodied it is. But in between lives, presumably the soul knows that physical death doesn't mean the end of one's existence. What a slippery slope to start down, fetal suicide. Kind of goes against anything the Buddha taught about all sentient beings.< It's not just reasonable to have high intentions, it's essential. Once you start lowering the standard for life, it will be easier to lower it again and again and again. Do we want to evolve in the direction of life or in the direction of death? We might want to evolve in the direction of effective, easily available birth control, thorough sex education, and eradication of poverty so that unwanted pregnancies are reduced to a minimum. From: Share Long <sharelong60@...> To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 8:25 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: RE: The Beast and the unborn Then add in ancestral karma and one can see why karma is unfathomable. Because it's just about infinite! Anyway, the soul might choose such a situation to burn off some similar karma from a previous life. Seems reasonable to have high intentions, do our best and leave the rest up to the lords of karma. From: "authfriend@..." <authfriend@...> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 10:11 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: RE: The Beast and the unborn Seraphita wrote: (snip) Re authfriend's "I'm not sure this makes a lot of sense. Assuming the soul chooses the circumstances of its next life, why would it pick a mother who is going to abort?" : because the soul chose parents with the right genes and circumstances for its future progress but it couldn't know in advance that the mother would later freely choose to abort. OooooooK... As to karma having to be matched for both mother and fetus: I'd hate to have to do the balancing act required for that one to work out. "Unfathomable is the course of action [i.e., karma]." (Krishna to Arjuna in the Gita)
