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: If we need to judge the value of these six realms, the Buddhists would say the best realm is the human realm.
Why is this the best realm?
Because you have a choice ...
The gods don ’ t have a choice.
Why?
They ’ re too happy.
When you are too happy you have no choice.
You become arrogant.
The hell realm: no choice, too painful.
The human realm: not too happy and also not too painful.
When you are not so happy and not in so much pain, what does that mean?
A step closer to the normality of mind, remember?
When you are really, really excited and in ecstasy, there is no normality of mind.
And when you are totally in pain, you don ’ t experience normality of mind either.
So someone in the human realm has the best chance of acquiring that normality of mind.
And this is why in Buddhist prayers you will always read: ideally may we get out of this place, but if we can ’ t do it within this life, may we be reborn in the human realm, not the others.

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