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Originally Posted by zeroca the cycle of reincarnation |
If i'm not mistaken, in Buddhism, the cycle of reincarnation is a cycle of reward and punishment. Let's say that if you lived a poor man but performed good deeds in this cycle then the next cycle you will be a rich man. But if you did bad things then the next cycle you become a beast of burden.
Basing on these cycles of regeneration, the extinctions of lower forms of life can only mean that as a whole or on the average, living things are doing righteous deeds so that most are going toward higher levels of life than lower level of bare minimum of survival and the lowest forms are the virus and the bacteria. So if the virus and bacteria ever become extinct then we can say that nirvana (the highest form of life) is within sight for everyone.