I heard or read somewhere that a red wine stain birthmark can indicate the fatal blow or whatever that ended your previous life. A kammic stain so to speak.
I have a clean body except for a scattered red birthmark on the back of my neck, just below the base of my skull. In the spot where someone would be executed with a gun. Walking around the city I have noticed about a dozen men with the similar looking birthmarks in the same spot.
Is there anything in the Buddha’s teachings that would support a theory like this? Do you have any comments or thoughts? This won’t affect my practice or my life in any way, I just find it interesting.
A few “confirmed” rebirth cases have indeed shown prior-injury/birth-mark correlations, so there does appear to be some evidence for this. To my knowledge though it’s not talked about in any authoritative Buddhist texts, however.
Not in the Buddha’s teachings, but the late Dr. Ian Stevenson catalogued many such cases where birthmarks corresponded to how children died in their alleged past lives.
A birthmark in the neck is actually quite common, it’s called a ‘stork’s bite’, almost half of the babies have them. Most of the time the mark goes away, but in some cases the birthmark will remain.
