Afterlife, Reincarnation, Life After Death, Near Death Experiences (Compiled)

[snowball]

I believe in reincarnation, but I do not care the past or past past life, I rather focus every now, this life.

[Salt&Pepper]

This article may be useful to this topic:

 

https://www.lionsroar.com/ask-the-teachers-13/

[fab]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightenment_in_Buddhism

 

According to the above, knowledge of past lives is a prerequisite towards enlightenment. Enlightened beings (eg. quite many monks) have recollection of their past lives. 

 

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In the Vanapattha Sutta (Majjhima Nikaya 17)^[50] the Buddha describes life in the jungle, and the attainment of awakening. The Mahasaccaka Sutta (Majjhima Nikaya 36) describes his ascetic practices, which he abandoned. There-after he remembered a spontaneous state of jhana, and set out for jhana-practice. Both suttras narrate how, after destroying the disturbances of the mind, and attaining concentration of the mind, he attained three knowledges (vidhya):^[35][36][37]

1. Insight into his past lives
2. Insight into the workings of Karma and Reincarnation
3. Insight into the Four Noble Truths"

Edited February 28, 2020 by fab

[Guest Past]

On 12/28/2018 at 2:11 PM, fab said:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightenment_in_Buddhism

 

According to the above, knowledge of past lives us a prerequisite towards enlightenment. Enlightened beings (eg. quite many monks) have recollection of their past lives. 

 

"

In the Vanapattha Sutta (Majjhima Nikaya 17)^[50] the Buddha describes life in the jungle, and the attainment of awakening. The Mahasaccaka Sutta (Majjhima Nikaya 36) describes his ascetic practices, which he abandoned. There-after he remembered a spontaneous state of jhana, and set out for jhana-practice. Both suttras narrate how, after destroying the disturbances of the mind, and attaining concentration of the mind, he attained three knowledges (vidhya):^[35][36][37]

1. Insight into his past lives
2. Insight into the workings of Karma and Reincarnation
3. Insight into the Four Noble Truths"

How to remember our past lives?

[fab]

32 minutes ago, Guest Past said:

How to remember our past lives?

 

Do you have any religion?

[flyerboy88]

Just thought of sharing, I myself believe in previous lives and always believe all of us do bring over some emotions and mindsets that we could not bear to let go previously into our current lives. was going through some rough patches, decided to undergo past life regression with a hypnotherapist in hope of addressing feelings I have. Things I saw during the therapy made me understand the emotions and thoughts that I’m going through. This helps me to come to terms with things and I want to build good karma as much possible, address these negativities instead of continuing with these poor energy vicious cycle and even possibly bringing them over to the next life (if I have). of course, ultimately depends on individual beliefs and perspective.

[Guest wlater]

20 hours ago, fab said:

 

Do you have any religion?

 

 

All religions like to claim that their teachings offer the believer the complete solution to life's answers and mysteries,

 

but in my opinion each religion only have part and incomplete pieces of a gigantic puzzle , they may have some of the pieces, but I think every philosophy needs to come together and fit the missing pieces together and share their lost puzzle pieces in order that all humanity have a more complete picture of the supreme truth.

 

Agree ?

[Guest Buddhism]

22 hours ago, fab said:

 

Do you have any religion?

Buddhism/Thai Buddhism/Taoism

[Guest Buddhism]

13 hours ago, flyerboy88 said:

Just thought of sharing, I myself believe in previous lives and always believe all of us do bring over some emotions and mindsets that we could not bear to let go previously into our current lives. was going through some rough patches, decided to undergo past life regression with a hypnotherapist in hope of addressing feelings I have. Things I saw during the therapy made me understand the emotions and thoughts that I’m going through. This helps me to come to terms with things and I want to build good karma as much possible, address these negativities instead of continuing with these poor energy vicious cycle and even possibly bringing them over to the next life (if I have). of course, ultimately depends on individual beliefs and perspective.

Where do you go for your past life regression hypnotherapy? I hope you are not the one who told me last time that the hypnotherapist has already went back home for good. 

[fab]

4 hours ago, Guest wlater said:

 

 

All religions like to claim that their teachings offer the believer the complete solution to life's answers and mysteries,

 

but in my opinion each religion only have part and incomplete pieces of a gigantic puzzle , they may have some of the pieces, but I think every philosophy needs to come together and fit the missing pieces together and share their lost puzzle pieces in order that all humanity have a more complete picture of the supreme truth.

 

Agree ?

 

No.

Do you believe in reincarnation?

 

2 hours ago, Guest Buddhism said:

Buddhism/Thai Buddhism/Taoism

 

I suggest you chant the heart sutra and the great compassion. 

[Steve5380]

On 2/28/2020 at 6:19 PM, fab said:

 

No.

Do you believe in reincarnation?

I suggest you chant the heart sutra and the great compassion. 

 

We can gain belief through persistence and autosuggestion.

But this does not mean that we gain FACT.

 

But then,  how important is it to have FACTS?  We cannot influence facts anyway.  We can live perfectly well being totally ignorant of existential facts.

What matters is that we listen to this inner voice that guides us to positive actions, and recognize the happiness that comes with doing them.

 

It has been now one and a half year since "guest reincarnation" started this thread.  In this time period, I am not one bit closer to any experience that could lead to any belief in reincarnation. And I predict that I may never reach this belief.  Not that it changes anything in my life.  I try to live in the present, with a view on the future.

 

The only way I may reach this belief in reincarnation is by chanting the heart sutra and the great compassion for eight hours a day.  So far I haven't found a slot in my busy schedule to fit this practice in.

 

 

 

Edited August 30, 2021 by Steve5380

[Guest Himbo69]

Imagine Buddhist monk Xuanzang (aka Tang Sanzang) getting reincarnated and decided to  Journey to the East instead in this new lifetime. 

But seriously, as much as I want to know about my past lives, I don’t think it is worth the trouble and I doubt it will matter in my current life. 

But I can imagine the panic for the vegans if it were proven that people were plants in their past lives. 

 

[Guest Dharma]

I believe that I've been here before but from another time.

[practease]

This is rather recent.

[Guest Peter]

Do souls prefer to reincarnate in places close to one’s place of death or birth ? How often do they reincarnate in countries/ continents different than original place of birth/ death?

[Guest Guest]

I was Angelina Jolie in my past life.

[Guest Guest]

Sorry sorry. Angelina still alive.😋

[Steve5380]

On 2/29/2020 at 10:59 AM, Steve5380 said:

 

The only way I may reach this belief in reincarnation is by chanting the heart sutra and the great compassion for eight hours a day.  So far I haven't found a slot in my busy schedule to fit this practice in.

 

 

I need to make a change.  Eight hours a day is a lot of time, the same as the time it takes for our body to recover during sleep.

 

So instead of ever dedicating eight hours a day to chant the heart sutra and the great compassion,  I am better off by reciting the Rosary for one hour a day.  This may open a path for a belief in the Catholic Catechism, which I missed as a child.

 

But then on further analysis, what do I have to gain by this?  

[Guest Britnee Sparks]

On 6/1/2018 at 9:39 PM, xiandarkthorne said:

I have memories of 3 past lives but not happy ones. I remember dying from snake bite as an old fisherman (beside a river in China), thirst and hunger as an old woman (in a Middle Eastern land) and being killed with a sword as a girl, at the staircase of a small pagoda in China.

 

 

Drama QUeen.

[xiandarkthorne]

Actually I believe that we were initially reincarnated as and from animals but so many lives ago that it's usually impossible to remember any of those past lives. After all, we have so many human incarnations already that we can't even remember many of them. 

 

That's why when people talk about "an old soul" they usually mean someone who has been through many incarnations or been reborn many times already, don't they? 

 

As for remembering past lives, I don't feel that it's necessary because I also believe that it's what we do in this life that matters and affects what we become in the next one. 

[xiandarkthorne]

On 8/31/2021 at 12:12 PM, Guest Britnee Sparks said:

 

Drama QUeen.

LOL I know. I just wish I could have mentioned happier lives like when I was a greater Egyptian queen than Cleopatra or being WuZetian but I really never remembered anything like that. 

 

Wouldn't it have been nice if I could honestly say I remember being reborn as someone famous and gay? Or rich and handsome or something like that? Unfortunately, I can't because I don't remember such things and can't be bothered to try. I suspect that would be self-delusional. 

[kimlo777]

I had my past life read by a native american when i was visiting the States some 25 years ago.  the guy already in very advanced age told me i have reincarnated at least 4 times - first time i died as a very young boy in a coastal flood in Japan; 2nd time i was a prince in an northern Indian province and was straight with several children by different wives; and 3rd time  I was a doctor who healed many sick people in a remote Thai village but was killed by a jealous gay lover; and this my present life is my 4th reincarnation. 

 

Not sure if I can believe all  of these but just  take it with a pinch of salt.

[Steve5380]

I had some issues as a child by being self-conscious of being seen by other people.  As a child I always felt watched while walking on busy streets in my native city.  As an adult this continued some, like feeling different doing something in my front yard as opposed to in my back yard were no one could see me.  And it is not that I was doing something to be ashamed of,  but simply the awareness to be seen.  This baffled me, lead to some ideas of being reincarnated,  for example having been a German soldier who died shortly before I was born, and having still a fear of an invisible enemy.  

 

But with the years I came to the conclusion that reincarnation is nothing but wishful thinking.  And I am now able to suppress any ideas that I am being seen. Now it is ME who acts freely and independently of any other person around.  There is no aggression or put down of anyone with this.  It is having gained control of one more of my earlier fears.

[Guest Fuck!!!]

On 9/1/2021 at 9:02 AM, Steve5380 said:

I had some issues as a child by being self-conscious of being seen by other people.  As a child I always felt watched while walking on busy streets in my native city.  As an adult this continued some, like feeling different doing something in my front yard as opposed to in my back yard were no one could see me.  And it is not that I was doing something to be ashamed of,  but simply the awareness to be seen.  This baffled me, lead to some ideas of being reincarnated,

 

Don't feel baffled.  The answer is right here:

 

1)  Sense of insecurity

2)  Inferiority complexity

3)  Self center-ness

4)  Vanity complexion

5)  Anti-socialism

6)  Delusional grandeur

7)  Guilt conscious-ness

😎 False sense of pride

 

You are very dangerous. 

[Steve5380]

On 8/31/2021 at 9:41 PM, Guest Fuck!!! said:

Don't feel baffled.  The answer is right here:

 

1)  Sense of insecurity

2)  Inferiority complexity

3)  Self center-ness

4)  Vanity complexion

5)  Anti-socialism

6)  Delusional grandeur

7)  Guilt conscious-ness

😎 False sense of pride

 

You are very dangerous. 

 

Dear Guest Fuck!!!   Please go and fuck someone else 

 

If you are referring to me,  none of your seven points applied.  This is why I felt baffled to be so sensitive to be watched.  And this weirdness was not dangerous to anyone, except perhaps to myself.  And today it is gone,  and I am the most harmless person in the world   

[Guest Wahahahahha]

On 9/1/2021 at 10:50 AM, Steve5380 said:

nd this weirdness was not dangerous to anyone, except perhaps to myself.    

We cannot agree more. You are a weirdo, probably an incarnate of extremely religious  lunatic fundamentalist freak..wahahhahaha

[tterrynick]

My partner and I once when to a psychic.

She said she saw 2 young girls, best friends. One of the girls (me) drowned and the other didn't do enough to help.

So that's why we are brought together this life for him to pay his debt to me... which he has.

In a very convoluted way, through something he did, I was diagnosed with very early stage nose cancer and have been cured.

Also explains my claustrophobia and when growing up, I always had an image of strong waves gushing past my face.

[Steve5380]

On 8/31/2021 at 10:27 PM, Guest Wahahahahha said:

We cannot agree more. You are a weirdo, probably an incarnate of extremely religious  lunatic fundamentalist freak..wahahhahaha

 

I don't know...  am I a weirdo?  I don't see why I would be.  I am very normal, very common, nothing extraordinary.  I feel that I am exactly where I should be at my stage in life.

 

I recently saw some videos by this Indian philosopher from last century, Jiddu Krishnamurti, which made me reflect a lot,  maybe he could make you too:

 

 

 

His idea is quite simple.  We are just an instance of the human consciousness,  like my computer runs just one instance of Windows 10.   If I buy a new computer and my current one ends in the city dumpster, nothing is lost of Windows 10 nor in any other computer running this program.

 

Therefore our death has no consequences.  The human consciousness keeps existing as well as before.  So why should we worry about our death?

[Guest True?]

On 9/3/2021 at 8:47 AM, Steve5380 said:

 

 So why should we worry about our death?

Because what leading to it may be  "unpleasant"?

[Steve5380]

On 9/3/2021 at 9:30 AM, Guest True? said:

Because what leading to it may be  "unpleasant"?

 

Yes and no.

 

Many who are leaving look resigned and peaceful.    And life can also be "unpleasant".

[FlippantMount]

I believe in reincarnation. And there's a saying   by some who believes in reincarnation as well that what cuisines you like to eat and the culture you identify with (not the one you are born into now) is influenced by your past life.

 

But I don't know who am I in my past life. I do know I like and enjoy European culture, western history, burgers, wurst, fries, pizzas and pasta and cheese. At the same time, I also enjoy sushis and sashimis. 

 

 

[Steve5380]

On 9/4/2021 at 11:06 AM, FlippantMount said:

I believe in reincarnation. And there's a saying   by some who believes in reincarnation as well that what cuisines you like to eat and the culture you identify with (not the one you are born into now) is influenced by your past life.

 

But I don't know who am I in my past life. I do know I like and enjoy European culture, western history, burgers, wurst, fries, pizzas and pasta and cheese. At the same time, I also enjoy sushis and sashimis. 

 

 

Cuisines you like are influenced by past life?   If you believe in reincarnation, you have to accept a reincarnation from a different species also.  So if you like steaks and poultry, you may have been an animal of prey.  If you like fish, you may have been a shark, for example.  And if you are a vegetarian, you may have been an Elephant or a giraffe. 

 

As for me, the food I like is what my grandmother cooked for us when I was a child.  I don't remember any fancy cuisine.   Maybe I am a starting soul in the sequence of incarnations, and so in future incarnations I might like lentils with vegetables, oats, misc. fruits, chocolate, nuts and and ice cream.

[Guest Mr Hee]

On 9/5/2021 at 4:48 AM, Steve5380 said:

 I might like lentils with vegetables, oats, misc. fruits, chocolate, nuts and and ice cream.

I think, you were bacteria or fungus that landed on almost everything you like....hehehehhe

[Steve5380]

On 9/4/2021 at 8:19 PM, Guest Mr Hee said:

I think, you were bacteria or fungus that landed on almost everything you like....hehehehhe

 

I don't let bacteria or fungus land of the food I like!   But you may be a bacteria or fungus,  at least you are at this site landing on threads like this one as a "guest", writing silly things  😝

[LoveCum]

 

Fish with huamn Face

 

六道轮回

　　六道轮回原为印度婆罗门教的世界观，后佛教引用，佛教把婆罗门教称为外道。所谓生死轮回是说“舍此蕴已复趣他蕴”。世间众生因造作善不善诸业而有业报，此业报有六个去处，被称为六道。六道是佛根据业报身所受福报大小划分的。分别为：天（化生）、人、畜生、阿修罗（魔）、饿鬼、地狱（化生）。

 

Reincarnation, also called transmigration or metempsychosis, is the concept that the soul, or some aspect of the soul, is reborn into new lives. Depending on the religion or philosophy, the soul can appear incarnate in humans, animals or plants as it works its way toward an eventual escape from the cycle of birth, death and rebirth. Most religions that believe in reincarnation consid­er it the path to purity and salvation.

 

­Reincarnation is widely accepted by the major Eastern religions -- most prominently Hinduism and Buddhism.

 

It also has a history in ancient Greek philosophy.

 

However, for people more familiar with the major monotheistic religions -- Christianity, Judaism and Islam -- the idea of reincarnation seems foreign and maybe even a little strange.

 

That's because Christianity, Judaism and Islam conceive of time linearly.

 

Life is simply a short step that determines the quality of an afterlife.

 

For those who believe in only one life followed by an eternal afterlife, reincarnation is like an unwieldy marathon run by relay instead of a short, concise sprint.

 

 

https://fb.watch/7YZDxLIZ13/

Edited September 12, 2021 by LoveCum

[Guest Jurlean88]

Can we be an animal in our past life ? I always loved cat sens I was little, when I see a cat I want to pet it
 in my home country I used to take care of feral cats and play with them, and people in my school used to tell me that I have huge eyes like cats

[Steve5380]

On 2/27/2020 at 5:08 PM, Guest Past said:

How to remember our past lives?

 

On 2/27/2020 at 5:41 PM, fab said:

 

Do you have any religion?

 

I think that you hit on a very probable reality:  we believe in having a past life when we get educated in a religion that teaches this.

 

You believe of course since you were educated in Buddhism.  But I was raised with Christianity, so there are no past lives for me!     Only a future heaven or hell!

 

And I further believe that this is correct, because the idea of "past lives" never crossed my mind until it came from the outside, maybe not from my religion but by reading about Hinduism and its derived doctrines.   So in my experience,  it is not NATURAL to assume that we had prior lives.   And it is not NATURAL to believe in a heaven and a hell for our eternal afterlife.  And similarly, it may not be NATURAL to believe in karma and reincarnation.   It so happened that someone else, like Buddha,  had these ideas first, and then he passed them on.  In other words,  RELIGIOUS DOCTRINES ARE HEARSAY.

 

There should be nothing wrong in speculating about various religious doctrines,  but there is no reason to take them seriously.

[InBangkok]

On 12/7/2021 at 6:44 AM, Steve5380 said:

There should be nothing wrong in speculating about various religious doctrines,  but there is no reason to take them seriously.

Apart from your dismissing the views of many of the world's 500 million Buddhists, you dismiss those who actually do believe they had an afterlife.

 

Many years ago I was at a point in my career when I felt I was virtually being wafted by winds over which I had little control. Quite by chance I met a delightfully lady who worked as an interpreter for a major Asian bank and spoke 6 languages. In her spare time she was a medium. The friend who introduced us suggested I arrange a consultation with her. This I did and spent 3 hours telling her about much of my life.

 

A couple of weeks later we met and she read the chart she had drawn up for me. During that very lengthy meeting, she told me so much about myself that I definitely had not told her earlier. What really surprised me was that I had all but decided for a variety of reasons I would leave Hong Kong where i was then based. She told me I definitely would not leave and would not leave Asia. She was correct.

 

We met two more times over the next two years and each time I was amazed at what she told me about myself. Not merely about what might happen in the future but how I reacted in certain situations. She also suggested I read a book titled The Nature of Personal Reality by a writer named Jane Roberts. I bought it and struggled through it for it is not an easy read. But the more I read, the more I accepted that we are each responsible for the life we lead - our reality. More important if we are, say, unhappy, we have created that reality. Equally we have the ability within us to change that reality.

 

How to describe this in more layman's terms? Well, we are all brought up with certain beliefs indoctrinated into us, many subconsciously from our parents and home life. These beliefs are buried in our brain but generate emotions which can can trigger these memories. In turn the beliefs become manifested in the way we go about our everyday lives and can affect our health. In other words, we are to a certain extent preconditioned from birth to react in certain ways in certain situations. So we are not in effect the masters of our own reality. We therefore have to take positive action to get rid of these beliefs and replace them with much more positive ones. Really quite a simple analysis - but very difficult to do.

 

What many will find difficult to believe that Ms. Roberts, who wrote a series of such books, did not actually write them. They were dictated to her by someone called Seth who had died several hundred years earlier. Many will regard all this as pure mumbo jumbo. But The Nature of Personal Reality has received many commendations from many notable writers and thinkers like Deepak Chopra. The book certainly changed my attitude to the beliefs I realised I had been reluctantly holding on to.

[Steve5380]

On 12/6/2021 at 11:51 PM, InBangkok said:

Apart from your dismissing the views of many of the world's 500 million Buddhists, you dismiss those who actually do believe they had an afterlife.

 

Many years ago I was at a point in my career when I felt I was virtually being wafted by winds over which I had little control. Quite by chance I met a delightfully lady who worked as an interpreter for a major Asian bank and spoke 6 languages. In her spare time she was a medium. The friend who introduced us suggested I arrange a consultation with her. This I did and spent 3 hours telling her about much of my life.

 

A couple of weeks later we met and she read the chart she had drawn up for me. During that very lengthy meeting, she told me so much about myself that I definitely had not told her earlier. What really surprised me was that I had all but decided for a variety of reasons I would leave Hong Kong where i was then based. She told me I definitely would not leave and would not leave Asia. She was correct.

 

We met two more times over the next two years and each time I was amazed at what she told me about myself. Not merely about what might happen in the future but how I reacted in certain situations. She also suggested I read a book titled The Nature of Personal Reality by a writer named Jane Roberts. I bought it and struggled through it for it is not an easy read. But the more I read, the more I accepted that we are each responsible for the life we lead - our reality. More important if we are, say, unhappy, we have created that reality. Equally we have the ability within us to change that reality.

 

How to describe this in more layman's terms? Well, we are all brought up with certain beliefs indoctrinated into us, many subconsciously from our parents and home life. These beliefs are buried in our brain but generate emotions which can can trigger these memories. In turn the beliefs become manifested in the way we go about our everyday lives and can affect our health. In other words, we are to a certain extent preconditioned from birth to react in certain ways in certain situations. So we are not in effect the masters of our own reality. We therefore have to take positive action to get rid of these beliefs and replace them with much more positive ones. Really quite a simple analysis - but very difficult to do.

 

What many will find difficult to believe that Ms. Roberts, who wrote a series of such books, did not actually write them. They were dictated to her by someone called Seth who had died several hundred years earlier. Many will regard all this as pure mumbo jumbo. But The Nature of Personal Reality has received many commendations from many notable writers and thinkers like Deepak Chopra. The book certainly changed my attitude to the beliefs I realised I had been reluctantly holding on to.

 

No, I don't dismiss the beliefs in an afterlife.  I merely challenge the idea of reincarnation, of having lived prior lives as the individuals with the self identity we feel now.

 

An afterlife for me became an issue after my bf passed away.  By now I have overcome most of my grief for his departure and I have recovered my happiness.  But he is still around in my life.  He is in my heart, of course, but I have this idea that he is my Guardian Angel.  Many good things come into my life now that contribute to my happiness and which could statistically have turned the other way.  

 

I have heard before of this book The Nature of Personal Reality by Jane Roberts. Now that you mention it, I want to read it too, and it happens to exist as an audiobook at Amazon, which I will get like I did the one about Mahler.  My late bf was also a believer in mediums.  He told me that he had consulted several, with amazing coincidences in predictions of what would be his future. 

 

Spirituality is a subject that has always been with me, but now that I am older I find more interesting.  I don't dwell much in a pre-life besides some mere speculations and a belief that we are partially cloned from prior lives through our genes, but the future after death could be some... some veiled reality that we will never get a glimpse of in our life.  So in a happy way I am agnostic and not disbeliever in an afterlife.   

[auscent]

Ive never thought abt past life ot after death. This life I find reasonable amt of responsibilities for others plus motivation to make it a good life. So Im focussed on the present.

[Steve5380]

On 12/7/2021 at 10:59 AM, auscent said:

Ive never thought abt past life ot after death. This life I find reasonable amt of responsibilities for others plus motivation to make it a good life. So Im focussed on the present.

 

This is fine.  At your stage in life the present deserves the highest attention.  This is always so, but at a later time in life the present loses part of its interest, especially if it is a good present,  and some curiosity arises about the future.

[fab]

On 12/8/2021 at 12:59 AM, auscent said:

Ive never thought abt past life ot after death. This life I find reasonable amt of responsibilities for others plus motivation to make it a good life. So Im focussed on the present.

 

Fyi, knowledge of past lives is one of the prerequisite towards enlightenment, i.e. if u r a Buddhist. 

[auscent]

On 12/9/2021 at 12:33 PM, Steve5380 said:

 

This is fine.  At your stage in life the present deserves the highest attention.  This is always so, but at a later time in life the present loses part of its interest, especially if it is a good present,  and some curiosity arises about the future.

Perhaps. 

I am glad I found fulfilling distractions. I completed my 6th longer term volunteer this year. These last from 1 month to 3 months. I cant wait to retire, as I have 2 causes I have been eyeing gor a good 10 years. I find present life not perfect but reasonably fulfilling that I dont seem to ques my past/afterlife.

 

[Steve5380]

On 12/9/2021 at 3:07 AM, fab said:

 

Fyi, knowledge of past lives is one of the prerequisite towards enlightenment, i.e. if u r a Buddhist. 

 

"If you are a Buddhist"...

 

Does enlightenment exist only for Buddhists, or is this the destiny of the whole humanity?

[fab]

On 12/10/2021 at 6:56 AM, Steve5380 said:

 

"If you are a Buddhist"...

 

Does enlightenment exist only for Buddhists, or is this the destiny of the whole humanity?

 

If he's a Buddhist so he won't ask such questions like u. 

 

[Steve5380]

On 12/9/2021 at 6:44 PM, fab said:

 

If he's a Buddhist so he won't ask such questions like u. 

 

 

So a good Buddhist should be afraid to ask and answer questions?   How convenient!  

[Derren]

On 12/7/2021 at 10:00 PM, Steve5380 said:

 

No, I don't dismiss the beliefs in an afterlife.  I merely challenge the idea of reincarnation, of having lived prior lives as the individuals with the self identity we feel now.

 

An afterlife for me became an issue after my bf passed away.  By now I have overcome most of my grief for his departure and I have recovered my happiness.  But he is still around in my life.  He is in my heart, of course, but I have this idea that he is my Guardian Angel.  Many good things come into my life now that contribute to my happiness and which could statistically have turned the other way.  

 

I have heard before of this book The Nature of Personal Reality by Jane Roberts. Now that you mention it, I want to read it too, and it happens to exist as an audiobook at Amazon, which I will get like I did the one about Mahler.  My late bf was also a believer in mediums.  He told me that he had consulted several, with amazing coincidences in predictions of what would be his future. 

 

Spirituality is a subject that has always been with me, but now that I am older I find more interesting.  I don't dwell much in a pre-life besides some mere speculations and a belief that we are partially cloned from prior lives through our genes, but the future after death could be some... some veiled reality that e will never get a glimpse of in our life.  So in a happy way I am agnostic and not disbeliever in an afterlife.   

 

 

[Guest scorpio204]

Eversince I was young I feel so connected with the pyramids. I believe that I was an egyptian in my past life. I dont even lool like a chinese even both my biological parents are both chinese. They said I'm not adopted even though my siblings and cousins and friends are teasing me as one. I like all movies and documentaries about egypts and pyramids and often dream being inside of a temple there. Before the pandemic i went to egypt and everything seems to be familiar. I was feeling at home.

[Steve5380]

On 12/9/2021 at 8:01 PM, Derren said:

 

 

 

This video you posted could be interesting, but I find that it is much blah, blah, blah,  1 hour of it,  without nothing new.

 

There are a few rare cases of persons, children, who have recollections of past lives.  We can assume that if reincarnation is a reality,  the majority of us are today reincarnated.  There should be many more cases, much more evidence.  

 

What there is absolute certainty is that each of us is an instantiation of a human being,  product of complex genes that "remember" the existence of our ancestors.  So, in a way,  the HUMAN SOUL was physically re-incarnated in each of the 8 billion humans now living.  But we have no definite memories of any past existence.  So we can assume that a certain form of "reincarnation" happens.  The big issue is what happens at death.  Will WE reincarnate into something after death???  

 

In the extended meaning of physical re-incarnation,  we re-incarnate when a child of us is born.  So, happy me,  I am re-incarnated in my son,  and then re-re-incarnated in my three grandchildren.   If I had none of these,  the end of my life could very probably be the complete end of me (!).   But, please,  don't feel bad if you don't have children.  It should not make any difference to US,  and this topic is nothing but pure speculation!   

[Guest Havenly Creature]

On 9/20/2022 at 4:12 AM, Steve5380 said:

 

 But, please,  don't feel bad if you don't have children.

No, we don't feel bad at all.   You will remain on earth because your genes lingers through your generations.  As for gay without Children, they will rise to the heaven with no attachment pulling them back to earth.