Many people sense that they have been reincarnated and some even claim they have memory of past lives. While these memories may seem very vivid and real to the claimants, there are a few logical problems that must be answered to validate these claims.

There is effectively little difference, in normal parlance, between the Buddhist word “karma” and the Christian word “sin”. Karma is always followed by revenge, curses, and suffering. Sin is always followed by suffering and death. “The wages of sin is death.” “The soul that sins it shall die.” When a Buddhist dies, in Thai Buddhists say he “reached his karma” (dai terng gai gum), which means “karma has caught up to him.”

How shall we escape karma or sin?

Clearly certain aspects of Buddhism has become increasingly popular among some Westerners. However, Buddhism has never taken hold in any Western country and probably

True Buddhism is following Buddha, an Indian prince who was willing to give up his wealth, his tradition, and even his original religion (Hinduism), to search for the way to be free from karma.