Rebirth examples

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If being patient and kind was a pronounced part of your character in your last life, such tendencies will re-emerge in the present life. If they are strengthen and developed in the present life, they will re-emerge stronger and more pronounced in the future life.

This is base upon the simple observable fact that long established habits tend to be difficult to break. If you are patient and kind, it tends to happen that you are not so easily ruffled by others. you don't hold grudges, people like you and thus your experience tend to be happier.

Or you might come into this life with the tendency to be patient and kind due to your mental habits in the past life. If in the present life you neglect to strengthen and develop them, they would gradually weaken and die out and perhaps completely absent in the future life.

Patience and kindness being weak in this case, there is a possibility that in either this life or next, a short temper, anger and cruelty could grow and develop, bringing with them all the in unpleasant experiences that such attitudes create.

However, if you come into the present life with the tendency to be short tempered and angry and realize that such habits only cause you unpleasantness, you can make an effort to replace them with positive emotions.

If you eliminate them completely, you become free from the unpleasantness caused by being short tempered and angry. If you are only able to weaken such tendencies, they would re-emerge in the next life where with more effort, they could be eliminated completely - freeing you from their unpleasant effects.

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