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Are we too eager for re birth?
JohnG
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Following the threads in other forum, with the questions of rebirth and reincarnation (and yes I know I'm one :clap: ) Are we just too eager to shed this life for the next?
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The part that has me most curious lately is wondering if my "stream" that carries on after my body dies, already know what will happen, or not. It makes me wonder if people who believe really strongly in one particular happening after they die get a sort of shock if what they expected doesn't happen at all.
My grandma is in poor health, and probably will not live much longer. She probably won't die tomorrow, she still lives at home and does pretty well, but we talk about death a lot as she goes through that process. She is intent on being able to see my grandpa again, who died 30 years ago. It makes me wonder if it'll be a shock to her in some sense if that doesn't happen.
So sometimes when I have questions like that, it makes me wish my next adventure was at hand, but I know better than to wish for things, too often you get what you wish for
Suffering......
Now that you have a dukkha based life. Now that you have asked the question, what is the plan?
Still hoping for the perfect life to practice the eight fold path in?
Me neither . . .
:thumbsup:
results in you being reborn again and again.
How it unfolds is as interesting as the end result... If there is an end result.
Dilemma, dilemma.
I think someone's confusing Christianity's Pie-In-The-Sky-When-You-Die with Buddhism. They're very different things.
When you ask people in the modern West about rebirth they usually see it as a positive, because frankly most of us live like royalty compared with 3rd world countries and people two millennia ago. There are religions such as Wicca that believe in reincarnation and take comfort from the concept.
I think this difference in viewpoint shifts the message that the concept of rebirth delivers away from it's original context, which is perhaps why people may be eager for another life.
I feel that death is just the journey back to nature.
Mr Spick from Star Trick
Vulcan blood doesn't lend itself well to catching terrian humor!
But..
Racism exists where ever there is a them & us mentality. That makes all of us variations of Skandha bound racists regardless of nationality until we are able to transcend the inertia of such ignorance.
An existence beyond your death (rebirth/reincarnation)
will not be the writer of your posting,
will only be a remix of similar coalescing ignorance,
has no guarantee to even ever come in contact with the Dharma
and is destined to manifest that same racism that you say is ugly
unless you stop it where it stands, in this life, in you.
The eagerness for a new chance after death, in reality,
is really us continuing to indulge our own racism.
I just don't get it.
Very few folks experience their past lives.
Those who do experience past lives usual only experience those things as relatively insignificant when compared to the breadth & width of this life.
If a new life (assuming that was possible as a cohesive representation of the last life) means a total memory loss of the old life, would you choose a new identity in this life right now if it meant a similar memory loss of everything & everyone you've ever experienced so far in this life?