Rebirth allows for your actions to have lots of ramifications and reverberations throughout time, so you want to be extremely careful about what you’re doing.

"The Buddha’s test for a teaching is: Does it lead you to do skillful things? And the teaching on karma is very much one that focuses on the power of your actions right now. And the same with rebirth: That allows for your actions to have lots of ramifications and reverberations throughout time, so you want to be extremely careful about what you’re doing."

~ Thanissaro Bhikkhu "The Karma Snake"

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