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Re: Rebirth....No doubt many of you have been down this path before! (pun intended)
(Quote) > There's no need to accept that there are 31 realms of existence, of that hell is located under the Himalayas, or other faith-based teachings, in order to benefit from the 4 NT's, the 8-F… (View Post)
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Re: Rebirth....No doubt many of you have been down this path before! (pun intended)
(Quote) Quotes from the Pali, please? Some sutras are contested as to authenticity, and conflict with other sutras (like the quote in DhammaDragon's post at the beginning of the thread). But this is … (View Post)
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Re: Rebirth....No doubt many of you have been down this path before! (pun intended)
(Quote) What is being reincarnated, according to Pali sources, are the karmic seeds that were created in past lifetimes, not someone's personality. Tibetans go a step further, and say it's "cons… (View Post)
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Re: Rebirth....No doubt many of you have been down this path before! (pun intended)
@DhammaDragon That's very interesting, thanks for posting that. It lends support to those scholars who say that rebirth was a later influence from Hinduism, and that the Buddha never taught rebirth. … (View Post)
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Re: If most of our decisions are automatic, who is in charge?
This is where mindfulness comes in. To move our reactions from the knee-jerk to the conscious and deliberate decision. That is why we practice. To get ourselves beyond instinctive and emotional respo… (View Post)
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