Buddhism doesn't work that way. Merely believing in some doctrine about reincarnation or rebirth has no purpose. Buddhism is a practice that enables experiencing illusion as illusion and reality as reality. The Buddha taught that our delusional belief in me causes our many dissatisfactions with life (dukkha).
Or read on for a primer. On the evening of February 26, Trayvon Martinâan unarmed 17-year-old African American studentâwas confronted, shot, and killed near his home by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch captain in Sanford, Florida.
At 6:01 pm on April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot while standing on the second floor balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The bullet traveled through the right side of his neck, smashing his throat and then going down his spinal cord before lodging in his shoulder.