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Sep 12, 2023 · Reincarnation, a concept as ancient as human thought, is the belief that our souls or consciousness are reborn into new bodies after death, journeying through numerous lives in a cyclical process of death and rebirth.
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Reincarnation, also known as rebirth or transmigration, is the philosophical or religious concept that the non-physical essence of a living being begins a new life in a different physical form or body after biological death.
Dec 20, 2021 · Can deceased people somehow be reborn in a different body? Posted December 20, 2021 | Reviewed by Kaja Perina. Key points. There are many cases of young children who report very specific details of...
- Remember — We Don’T Always Remember
- Karma, A Handcuff?
- The Water-Snake Simile
- The Raft Simile
- Six View-Positions
- Agitation & Non-Agitation
- Abandoning Possessions & Views
- The Well-Proclaimed Dhamma
Before we answer with more Sutta and Discourse quotes below, of course, it’s worth discussing the impermanance of memories. If we self-identify with our happy or sad past memories, we are clinging. If we live, as Buddha taught, a virtuous life of positive activities (karma) we have a purpose. If we are born into a new life without memory of the “me...
In Buddha’s teachings, he focused on conduct in the hear-and-now and purification and other methods designed to help release us from the wheel of suffering — or Samsara. Until we are ultimately released, we are still “relatively” bound by Karma. In fact, we could say, Karma is the handcuff that binds us to the wheel of suffering. (There were no han...
“Monks, there is the case where some worthless men study the Dhamma: dialogues, narratives of mixed prose and verse, explanations, verses, spontaneous exclamations, quotations, birth stories, amazing events, question & answer sessions [the earliest classifications of the Buddha’s teachings]. Having studied the Dhamma, they don’t ascertain the meani...
“Monks, I will teach you the Dhamma compared to a raft, for the purpose of crossing over, not for the purpose of holding onto. Listen & pay close attention. I will speak.” “As you say, lord,” the monks responded to the Blessed One. The Blessed One said: “Suppose a man were traveling along a path. He would see a great expanse of water, with the near...
“Monks, there are these six view-positions (ditthitthana).Which six? There is the case where an uninstructed, run-of-the-mill person — who has no regard for noble ones, is not well-versed or disciplined in their Dhamma; who has no regard for men of integrity, is not well-versed or disciplined in their Dhamma — assumes about form: ‘This is me, this ...
“But, lord, might there be agitation over what is internally not present?” “There might, monk,” the Blessed One said. “There is the case where someone has this view: ‘This cosmos is the self. After death this I will be constant, permanent, eternal, not subject to change. I will stay just like that for an eternity.’ He hears a Tathagata or a Tathaga...
“Monks, you would do well to possess that possession, the possession of which would be constant, permanent, eternal, not subject to change, that would stay just like that for an eternity. But do you see that possession, the possession of which would be constant, permanent, eternal, not subject to change, that would stay just like that for an eterni...
“The Dhamma thus well-proclaimed by me is clear, open, evident, stripped of rags. In the Dhamma thus well-proclaimed by me — clear, open, evident, stripped of rags — there is for those monks who are arahants — whose mental effluents are ended, who have reached fulfillment, done the task, laid down the burden, attained the true goal, totally destroy...
It may seem difficult to reconcile the notions of “No Self” (Anatman) and rebirth — where some kind of “self” continues as a mindstream from birth-to-birth. In Buddhism, there is no concept of a soul. Instead of a “soul” reincarnating from life to life, the term “mind stream” is more commonly used.
Aug 10, 2015 · Today, we will explore available evidence that suggests that reincarnation might be real. While it can’t be quantified by the scientific method (an empirical measurement) in a physical sense, but the evidence and unexplainable recorded events can be measured well enough.
Jun 23, 2019 · Various philosophers have specified what they would see as sufficient evidence that reincarnation indeed takes place. Among them, philosopher Derek Parfit gave the following example: Suppose...
