[Buddha-l] Moment of individuation

[Bob Smith]

jkirk <jkirk at spro.net> wrote:
 
> It might be added about unwanted events, for which one might not have any personal 
> responsibility, that sometimes mere bad luck is 
> a cause of misfortune, being in the wrong 
> place at the wrong time and so on. 
> But the Buddhist viewpoint enables anyone so struck to make 
> something positive or remedial of the unsatisfactoriness,
 
Being in the wrong place at the wrong time was certainly the lot of the 300,000 victims of the recent Indian Ocean Tsunami - and of the 6 million victims of the Holocaust. These two situations raise interesing questions for a Buddhist 'theodicy' inasmuchas one was so heavily nature driven while the other was of human design. Any thoughts?

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