Strange Karma?

Strange Karma? As one of my teachers would say, "There is sympathy and then there is compassion." For me, this means that if one feels sympathy for someone being injured it may or may not be practical but compassion while connected with real wisdom helps end injuries or helps heal injuries both physical and emotional.

I have past life memories of being raised a Christian male in Europe during the crusades and fighting Islamics in the middle east. Then the karma for that is to be reborn a Moslem fighting Christians. After about 4 lifetimes going back and forth I gave up war for any reason in the 1100s. Yes, there is still self defense but religious wars I gave up then after all that confusion of going back and forth and remembering for 4 consecutive lifetimes.

Flash forward to the Chinese invading and killing many Tibetans in 1959. Many of those who killed Tibetans in the Chinese invasion have since died from old age or illness. They have been reborn in Tibet to face the scorn of the Chinese. Tibetan lamas also believe that many high lamas killed by chinese soldiers in Tibet in 1959 were reborn and then died a Tien Amin square in 1989 as Chinese students demonstrating for democracy. So today the young people the Chinese are killing, imprisoning and torturing who are young Tibetans are likely reborn from the Chinese soldiers who fought in Tibet who died and were reborn in Tibet since the invasion of Tibet in 1959.

Likewise because the United States killed me in my last lifetime in Nagasaki, Japan in the nuclear blast there as a 12 year old child in 1945 caused my birth in Seattle, Washington 3 years later. Karma happens! Both the Good and the Bad and the in between.