Do you believe in reincarnation??
i recently read an article in a magazine and it made me wonder about the topic reincarnation.
The article said that, once an old monk had died and after just 9 months a child was born somewhere in south asia. and as he grew up he would think like a monk. and they was a time when that boy travelled to that monk place and started meditating then when the boy was asked with all sort of question, he would give answer which was directly related to the monk who died some years ago.
Do you believe this??? or do you think this is just a gossip?
IS they really such thing as reincarnation???
| pashmina wrote: |
Do you believe in reincarnation??
i recently read an article in a magazine and it made me wonder about the topic reincarnation.
The article said that, once an old monk had died and after just 9 months a child was born somewhere in south asia. and as he grew up he would think like a monk. and they was a time when that boy travelled to that monk place and started meditating then when the boy was asked with all sort of question, he would give answer which was directly related to the monk who died some years ago.
Do you believe this??? or do you think this is just a gossip?
IS they really such thing as reincarnation??? |
If water can turn into wine, I don't see why reincarnation is much of a longshot. Still... it makes me sad when I have to kill little insects. | pashmina wrote: |
Do you believe in reincarnation??
i recently read an article in a magazine and it made me wonder about the topic reincarnation.
The article said that, once an old monk had died and after just 9 months a child was born somewhere in south asia. and as he grew up he would think like a monk. and they was a time when that boy travelled to that monk place and started meditating then when the boy was asked with all sort of question, he would give answer which was directly related to the monk who died some years ago.
Do you believe this??? or do you think this is just a gossip?
IS they really such thing as reincarnation??? |
Don't believe every thing you read. Its most likely just a story that the editors heard and put in the magazine.
I don't believe in reincarnation. But if it is real I don't see how its any different than just dieing. Who you are is still gone. Your personality is still gone. And isn't that what makes you, you? | The Conspirator wrote: |
| pashmina wrote: | Do you believe in reincarnation??
i recently read an article in a magazine and it made me wonder about the topic reincarnation.
The article said that, once an old monk had died and after just 9 months a child was born somewhere in south asia. and as he grew up he would think like a monk. and they was a time when that boy travelled to that monk place and started meditating then when the boy was asked with all sort of question, he would give answer which was directly related to the monk who died some years ago.
Do you believe this??? or do you think this is just a gossip?
IS they really such thing as reincarnation??? |
Don't believe every thing you read. Its most likely just a story that the editors heard and put in the magazine.
I don't believe in reincarnation. But if it is real I don't see how its any different than just dieing. Who you are is still gone. Your personality is still gone. And isn't that what makes you, you? |
i too think this is just a piece of gossip from the writer of the magreincarnation is something i believe originated in pagan mythology. I do believe in life after death but reincarnation is something coming out of tales and myths on necromancers.
| The Conspirator wrote: |
| But if it is real I don't see how its any different than just dieing. Who you are is still gone. Your personality is still gone. And isn't that what makes you, you? |
But deeply inside your soul you keep experience of previous life and can trace it by some technique.
You don't lose it at all.
That's the point. | Usuf wrote: |
| reincarnation is something i believe originated in pagan mythology. I do believe in life after death but reincarnation is something coming out of tales and myths on necromancers. |
This way why life after death is unlke tales?
Really it's the same thing.
But reincarnation is more reasonable on my opinion because soul can have evolution but life after death doesn't provide that.Buddhism's view on rebirth and reincarnation can be summarized into the following four points.
1. The value of rebirth
2. Some questions regarding rebirth
3. Proofs of rebirth
4. How can we raise above rebirth?
If we accept and believe in the idea of rebirth, what value does it bring? What meaning does it add to our existence? Rebirth extends our existences. Life is beyond only a hundred year. Life is full of hope and possibility. In rebirth, death is the beginning of another existence. It is like a torch. When one stick of wood is exhausted, there will be another, one after the other. Each stick may be different in component. Yet, the flame will continue to burn. Rebirth is also like a lamp. The oil may be exhausted. Another lamp can be lighted. One lamp after another, it gives brightness in the darkness of existence. We exist with in the six realms, as Henry or Jack. We may be in heaven or earth. We may have many different forms. Yet, the flame of life is eternal. The lamp of wisdom is endless. Rebirth connects us with the universe. Our existence is also timeless. Rebirth is the meaning of existence. We passed our experience, wisdom and history from one generation to the next. If we cannot hand down our experience, then work has no meanings. If we cannot pass down our culture, history will be very short.
According to the Hindu mythology, every soul has to go through the rebirth cycle till he is liberated i.e. till he attains moksha. The aim of every soul on the earth is to escape from the rebirth cycle, and that depends on your karma, that is, the deeds you did while you lived on Earth.
I can't say I neither believe nor disbelieve in reincarnation, but I too have heard about such stories. For instance, there was one incident where a new born child began to talk about a place far away from her and also some other names, who were apparently relatives of the person in that child's previous birth. The child's parents went to that place, and that child recognized her clothes, her house, her relatives etc.
I am not sure if this is exactly the story, but this is it as far as I remember.
Over the years I have spent a lot of time thinking about this....
Especially when people I know die....
But...
I don't believe in reincarnation because if indeed their is a god or supreme being/s...
Why have death in the first place if one is going to perpetuate life with reincarnation?
I find it to be a senseless cycle.
I dont believe in reincarnation in the sense that your soul is reincarnated, but everyone is reincarnated to some point. It may not be that you turn into a beetle or another human being, but when you are burried the nutrients that make up your body are returned to the ground to provide food for the insects and plants that will feed on you(doesnt sound too pleasing does it!) in that sense you are being reincarnated as it reuses the elements that make up the earth, one big ecosystem that we are a part of.
What makes your personality and "you" is something that dies and I dont believe that ever can be passed on or reincarnated.
| Usuf wrote: |
| reincarnation is something i believe originated in pagan mythology. I do believe in life after death but reincarnation is something coming out of tales and myths on necromancers. |
No, actually it is Jewish. In the Bible when Jesus asks the disciples who do you say that I am, one of the answers that he gets is that "the people" wisper that he is the reincarnation of Elisha and John the Baptists the reincarnation of Elijah. Reincarnation has been a common belief in Judaism since before Jesus' day.Yes, I believe reincarnation. I believe that after the death is possible to live another life.
I do not believe in reincarnation. Howeve, i do believe in life after death. Reincarnation is a myth, that's all. It does sound kind of cool to come back to life in a different form but be practical guys!
Personally, I believe in reincarnation. I believe that you learn a lesson in one life, and then begin another lesson in the next. If you didn't learn the lesson you were supposed to, then you live a life similar to the one before, still trying to learn the same lesson.
The lesson itself could be how to be a better man, woman, boy, girl. How to be calmer, how to not take things personally. Just anything that will help a portion of your soul.
When people speak about reincarnation they are normally speaking about the soul from one lifetime being placed into another form to learn their next lesson. Souls can be countless lifetimes old, or in rare cases, newer - younger souls. Just beginning the process.
Those are beliefs.
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Personally, I believe in reincarnation. I believe that you learn a lesson in one life, and then begin another lesson in the next. If you didn't learn the lesson you were supposed to, then you live a life similar to the one before, still trying to learn the same lesson.
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I have to agree with Digital Thoth. My cousin Mikaylah, when she was just a small girl used to tell us some of the craziest things. She spoke of her other family. When we questioned her about it, she told us that her other parents were killed by Indians; meaning Native Americans, and that she and her brother were taken captive and rescued by men on horses. She's always seemed older than she really is, and now that she is older, she still remembers these things. She can and does talk about it, still believing it is perfectly natural.This question is really difficult.
My mind says no but my heart would love to say yes. Of course this may be a question we can never know the answer to.
It is a theory I really find it difficult to get my head around. I mean, if we lived before why do we have no clear memory of it? Why do we know this life? Yet if we have lived before we should have clear memories of it if we knew it while we were living it.
I cant really put into words what I am trying to say.
Until I get some proof otherwise I am going to say no.
| pashmina wrote: |
Do you believe in reincarnation??
i recently read an article in a magazine and it made me wonder about the topic reincarnation.
The article said that, once an old monk had died and after just 9 months a child was born somewhere in south asia. and as he grew up he would think like a monk. and they was a time when that boy travelled to that monk place and started meditating then when the boy was asked with all sort of question, he would give answer which was directly related to the monk who died some years ago.
Do you believe this??? or do you think this is just a gossip?
IS they really such thing as reincarnation??? |
Hmm.... This is a hard question for me actually. Bu t I suppose that my response is no. I say that because of the Communion of Saints. ...It appears that once you die and go to Heaven, you stay there. Now... ....If we were to consider Earth to be Hell, that could change the parameters a bit. 
But I'm not making that jump. I'd have to say that no, I do not believe that. ...But apparently evil spirits can roam the earth, as in the story of Legion in the Bible. ...Kind of makes things scary by that right. ...But I don't mean to imply that monks are demons either.Jesus insisted that John the Baptist was the reincarnation of Elijah. The Book of Job also makes an overt reference to reincarnation. It is a proven fact that Judaism has believed in reincarnation since before Jesus' day, and Jesus was an adamant Jewish rabbi.
Never believed in reincarnation. If life were just looping in our world, could somebody explain the statistical numbers of the human population since the last century? Sorry if I said something not good, but I give my opinions as a secular humanist.
That reasoning assumes that Earth is the only place in the universe where anyone can incarnate. In the Middle Ages they thought the Earth was the center of the universe. This is kind of thinking is the spiritual equivalent of that.
I have also given some thought to this topic. At this point I am inclined to believe that reincarnation cannot be refuted. This does not mean that I believe in it, just that I realize it cannot be disproven based on our limited human experience.
This is why:
From our current perspective, what was our experience of life prior to our birth? The answer is that we have no current conception of life prior to our birth. It is shrouded in mystery, blackness, confusion, whatever. Once we die, we will lose our sensory capabilities as well as our mental capacity. We will return to a state much like that before we were born. There will be nothing.
Before we were born there was nothing, and suddenly we were born. What can say that this will not simply happen again after we die?
It seems that unless we use an argument that is not based on experience, we cannot dismantle the idea of reincarnation. Unfortunately, I have not found a basis for believing it either. I have met a number of people who, if reincarnation existed, strike me as old, wise souls. However, because I do not know them intimately, I cannot say that they are not simply a product of genetics and present-life experience.
Colin
