It promotes trust and enjoyment of living in the 'now'. I think that it's a good question to be asked here, and also on a Buddhist site or some other place, such as starseeds or other believers.
Here, we can share our research, thoughts and feelings, as exJWs. On a site where there are practicing believers in reincarnation, we can learn about how they really see it. First of all why would the soul come back? What does. Ever notice how your "problems" follow you wherever you go?
Same thing. The lessons to be faced and overcome can arise in different circumstances, so the important thing is to meet them and overcome them in whatever situation they arise during the current physical life. The deeper "essence" of you is untouched by the physical world, but it's the physical world that is the "playing field" in which the "spirit" for lack of a better word learns to face and overcome those lessons which will help it evolve back to unity with its source.
One other question, if one takes his own life will he. If so that create A whole set. Toggle navigation. Sign up Sign in. Why reincarnation doesn,t make sense. What does this accomplish? The situation which surround the soul change with each life, therefore how does this allow us to deal with past circumstances. He or she comes back in a different body, with a different brain; therefore a different person is involved, and that person has not technically experienced reincarnation.
One other question, if one takes his own life will he or she be reincarnated? If so that create A whole set of new problems. Massive suicide, no one would reach an age of 40 and above. I personally view it more as a life-philosophy than a traditional religion. What I have come to understand from this belief system, is this That is to say, and just as an example of how a believer in reincarnation might think: Perhaps this life has been a constant series of unfortunate events which forced us to recognize that we are not in control - the lesson?
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You can read more on her blog house unseen. Don't Neglect Your Vocation to Holiness. Catholic Exchange is a project of Sophia Institute Press. Email Login. Catholic Exchange. It was, everyone was, quite serious. You will say it and you will mean it. In these belief systems, some part of the person which part is interpreted differently both across and within religious movements would live on in a cycle of rebirth called samsara. One was the notion that only a few were able to leave this cycle and become part of the divine.
Another was that the aim was, indeed, to become part of something. According to Gautama, everyone, regardless of their place of birth, is capable of exiting the cycle of reincarnation. In one image, consciousness is like a flame being passed from candle to candle.
After enlightenment, no more candles will be lit. Buddhism, then, began in part as a new set of views about reincarnation. And throughout its history, Buddhists have debated and expanded the potential for what reincarnation entails. For example, in Tibet, probably beginning in the 13th century , the doctrine of rebirth took a significant twist: it was used to identify the consciousness of a deceased monk in a newborn child, and thus grant to that child the religious and political title of the previous monk.
This is the background for what became the tradition of the Dalai Lamas. More recently, Buddhists, as well as outsiders seeking to modernise Buddhism, have continued to reinterpret the doctrine of reincarnation for their own times.
From the midth century , as the theory of evolution developed, thinkers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson began to suggest that the doctrine of transmigration was an intimation of the understanding of the transmutation of species.
I would it were; but men and women are only half human. And I was a rock. I was the minerals in the water … gas, sunshine, water, fungi, and plants.
It also expresses a genuine sense of interdependence between humans and their environment. R eincarnation has also been used to think about politics. He more likely had in mind the ideas of transmigration that one can find in Pythagoras and Plato. But he was closer to the Buddhist critique of Brahmanism than anything else, because the Platonic system — like the Brahmanic one — had no particular end: people could reincarnate forever.
It also means thinking seriously about the failure of any doctrine to realise its mission. Consider, as an example, the work of the writer and scholar Robert Wright and his popular book Why Buddhism Is True According to Wright, Buddhism is true because it understands something very specific about the effect of natural selection on the human condition.
Namely, that evolution is driven by fleeting pleasure. Humans seek satisfaction through eating and copulating, only to find that the pleasure from these activities is remarkably evanescent. And yet, nevertheless, we get up and try to find satisfaction through them every day. Wright says that this is a neat trick of natural selection, which is driven simply by the blind will of the species to continue.
The trouble is that this cycle of pleasure, satisfaction and dissatisfaction is, well, rather unsatisfying. And this is what Buddhism understands and what mindfulness meditation can help cure. To perpetually pursue satisfaction is suffering. To become aware of this process and gain distance from it through mindfulness provides relief. Early in his book, Wright makes a qualification about what he thinks is true in Buddhism. First, in the sense that every human bears traces of historical processes that happened long before any of us were alive.
Second, in that humans are driven by a fundamental process of the endless reincarnation of pleasure.
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