Do you believe that if you don't learn the lesson, you will be given the same situation until you do?

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Namaste

Peace and Love

Answer 1

Not necessarily the "same" situation, since lessons apply to many things. A rather silly analogy, but if a child burns themselves on a stove, they won't necessarily learn not to put their finger in a candle flame, (until they do)! Lessons are rather like metaphors; we need to connect them. Some are more complex than others, & some people "never" learn. Wonder what you think--would we then be given the same "situations" over & over again?

Answer 2

Perhaps not the same exact situation, but the same lesson none the less, yes I believe that. Better to do what you can to learn the lesson the first time around, it only gets harder the longer you fight it. The trick is in figuring out what that lesson is, what you need to learn.

Answer 3

I don't know if it will be the exact same situation but it's going to be the same theme. Especially in this lifetime. If we want to know what our life will be like next we only need look at our existing thoughts and patterns. Of course we have the ability to change when we recognize that that is what we must do to stop the cycle of karma but sometimes it takes a lot before we do finally wake up and smell the coffee. Writing about coffee makes me want to have some right now.......haven't had any this morning........

Answer 4

Maybe not right away in this Life.
But I do feel many types of karma are coming around much more quickly today. Like hurting someone else will cause something bad to happen to us. Kind of like cleaning the slate, so we have less to answer to when Christ gets here.
What is going to happen is not the end of everything. Just a major change. And we are being offered an opportuntiy to be lifted up to higher a reality at this time.

Answer 5

Probably not the SAME situation, no. But I believe that the 'lesson' will be offered again until that little light bulb goes *ping* and we are ready to move on.

I think to keep offering the same dish until someone learns to like it is not the 'way' the Universe works. Just my opinion.
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Answer 6

Hello I am, I like 'I am', it sounds much like an affirmation. You can free yourself of suffering in your life; but it requires of you concentration. You continue your negative thinking, which recoils on you. It is okay to think self-critical. You are on your way. You need more positive thoughts, perhaps you need a good deed, so buy someone a gift out of the blue or take part in a charity event.

Answer 7

Yes, I do, for the reason that if you havn't learned a particular lesson, you will continue to act or react to things in the same way, and those around you will continue likewise as well, until you find a different approach, then you get different results, hopefully the ones you really wanted....

Answer 8

Ohhh, please don't call them lessons. The world is a wild and organic movement of your own mind, a place to laugh and cry and chase your child-like wonder, but it is not a stuffy classroom and there is no teacher to hand out assignments.

Lets just say you come into this world with certain karmic propensities that represent the walls of your own self created prison, and you have no choice but to push at those walls until you are free. This is a glorious adventure, to fall in love with Truth and melt into the vastness of all that You are and have always been.

Namaste

Answer 9

Experience tells us that moment by moment, our thought patterns in a certain situation will guide our Actions in dealing with that situation. Each similar situation and we deal with it the same way each time.

If we do not like a person at work, we generally avoid that person, often looking for them so that this Action can be achieved. Over and over the Action and the situation repeats, avoid, avoid, avoid, ad infinitum...we do not like going to work in our minds because we "know" what will happen, out thoughts always guiding us in the same Action - Response scenario. We decide in wisdom, to change our thought process, perceiving this situation at work as causing us and them pain and undue stress. We approach the person instead of avoiding them and find out that they are hurting inside and we discuss their problems to a conclusion. The following weeks and months pass as we meet and greet them finding a friend, no longer suffering stress at work or needing to avoid anyone.

This is typical behaviour yet there are parallels with your hypothesis, to Buddhists, this is Karma, Action and Consequence and we affect our happiness as well as the happiness of others by Positive Action which has Positive Consequence producing Positive Karma. To Buddhists, the situations presented are due to our own Actions and to change the situations for the better, we must therefore change our Actions..to ensure that these situations never arise we must develop wisdom and to do that we must change our perceptions because it is our perceptions which guide our thoughts and therefore guide our Actions...

Peace from a Buddhist...

Answer 10

I think that is that case you given the same case until you learn your lesson