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by pondering
Thu Jul 05, 2012 4:02 pm
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: What is rebirth and where does this idea comes from?
Replies: 16
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Re: What is rebirth and where does this idea comes from?

10. The "one Who Knows" clearly knows that all conditioned phenomena are unsubstantial. So this "One Who Knows" does not become happy or sad, for it does not follow changing conditions. To become glad , is to be born; to becomes dejected, is to die. Having died, we are born agai...
by pondering
Wed Jul 04, 2012 3:20 am
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: What is rebirth and where does this idea comes from?
Replies: 16
Views: 3594

Re: What is rebirth and where does this idea comes from?

"He recalls to mind his various temporary states in days gone by – one birth, or two or three or four or five births, 10 or 20, 30 or 50, a 100 or a 1,000 or a 100,000 births, through many cycles of cosmic contraction and cosmic expansion . . . . . . he recollects his numerous past lives: that...
by pondering
Tue Jul 03, 2012 5:24 pm
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: What is rebirth and where does this idea comes from?
Replies: 16
Views: 3594

Re: What is rebirth and where does this idea comes from?

Thanks this very helpful but I wish to see the sutra that support this very idea to confirm me that I am following the true teachings of the budha and also to show that this idea is not whimsicle talk. many thanks.
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by pondering
Tue Jul 03, 2012 3:36 am
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: What is rebirth and where does this idea comes from?
Replies: 16
Views: 3594

Re: What is rebirth and where does this idea comes from?

Is that true that death and rebirth means the changes in a person's life and physical appearance?
by pondering
Mon Jul 02, 2012 4:33 pm
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: What is rebirth and where does this idea comes from?
Replies: 16
Views: 3594

What is rebirth and where does this idea comes from?

What is rebirth and where does this idea comes from?