Do you believe in rebirth?

[ajay0]

I mean life-to-life rebirth, not the moment-to-moment interpretation.

I see it as an intriguing possibility, but I don't hold it as a belief, and it doesn't seem relevant to my daily practice.

How about you?

Yes, I believe in it and I also happen to know my past life as well.

You can go through the books of Dr. Brian Weiss, Dr. Michael Newton and Dr. Ian Stevenson, pschiatrists who have researched reincarnation and past lives.

Dr. Brian Weiss has himself recorded the case studies of many of his patients after past life regression, which had a healing effect on his patients as well, physically and psychologically. Most phobias generally stem from accidents in past lives, the psychological memory of which we carry on to future lives.

You can go through Dr. Weiss's book, 'Many lives, many masters' , which was his first book where he records the experiences of a young patient of his, suffering from anxiety disorders.

I think past life regression has great medical benefits, physically and psychologically and can be a sort of force-multiplier or game changer when it becomes established in psychiatric practice.

The theory of reincarnation helps to increase conviction in meditation, as it is mindfulness or meditation that destroys the karmas or shankaras or unconscious tendencies of the mind , and one would be more enthusiastic in the practice.

However, yes, it is not relevant to daily practice , and many practice mindfulness without belief in reincarnation from what I know.

 

[Asking]

I don't believe in rebirth. My practice is secular and requires no supernatural beliefs.

 

[Tonstad39]

I mean life-to-life rebirth, not the moment-to-moment interpretation.

I see it as an intriguing possibility, but I don't hold it as a belief, and it doesn't seem relevant to my daily practice.

How about you?

As a recent convert, I personally believe that different people have different personalities in spite of having the same organs boil down to life-to-life reincarnation. The higher or lower realms are imperceptable to our 4D minds and souls after a while simply end up in Quantuum superposition where ten maybe more dimmensions of reality are perceptable.

The only thing that inhibits eternal heaven (or at least untill the universe meets its demise). They are at the mercy of quantuum tunneling and the soul and its memories are usually caroded over time. This naturally wipes the soul clean while it gets recombined into small oxygen particles that end up floating into any open oriphous if a girl's body. This inveriably renders it a blank slate untill there is a fetus that the particles can go in. Once it develops a central nervous system, The soul has found a new vessal.

Repeat this billions times over and you have people who share common personality traits. Those who have different personality trait happen to be more distant in the reincarnation cycle. Of course all this is my own assertion, but until we can more definitively understand the supernatural, speculation is better than nothing.

 

[Rinchen]

speculation is better than nothing.

Practice. Practice is better than nothing (and much better than speculation).

The totality of your post proves why speculation can be so dangerous.

 

[Indagator]

"You" come to existence and you leave the existence. Who is to say that this happens only once?

Besides Buddhism is really lacking without the idea of rebirth, what is the point of karma then? Rebirth is an important aspect of Buddhism, it becomes meaningless and stupid without it.

 

[Twilight Hue]

"You" come to existence and you leave the existence. Who is to say that this happens only once?

Besides Buddhism is really lacking without the idea of rebirth, what is the point of karma then? Rebirth is an important aspect of Buddhism, it becomes meaningless and stupid without it.

In a way rebirth is a misnomer. Givin the nature by which molecular and atomic make up arranges and rearranges, no birth actually ever takes place, nor death ever occurs, but rather, remains a continuum by which life rises and falls undefined by any written or spoken term.

 

[LuisDantas]

I sure do, but "belief" is not something that I would use to describe my relationship with that idea.

Rebirth is a very useful idea, but we should not be dragged away by Abrahamic terminology and expectations.