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How can animals move up the realms of rebirth?
Hi Clair
Animals could become humans by association or connection
with humans in this life or in previous lives. All beings have
a countless number of rebirths, and a vast oceans of connections
to all sorts of rebirth. Karma and rebirth is difficult to understand,
maybe only Buddha's can understand how this works. So animals may
be reborn as animals, humans as animals. The message is that we
should really profit from our human rebirth to seek enlightenment
for ourselves and all those with whom we are connected human
and animal
bodhicitta
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