Hence the "greatness" of the debate.AJungianIdeal wrote:If not, what gets "transferred" as it was?
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DNA?AJungianIdeal wrote:I'm trying real hard to try and make rebirth mesh with neuroscience. Does rebirth depend on a dualistic conception of the mind? If not, what gets "transferred" as it was?
chownah
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Hi Ron ,Ron-The-Elder wrote:Hi, Sanjay. I think that you will find with very little effort that Buddha taught that some kamma vipakha was as a result of natural phenomena, such as storms, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, strikes of The Earth by astral bodies (comets and meteors), and etc. Also many are killed in wars and through acts of violence, which had nothing to do with their intentional actions (kamma).Sanjay PS wrote:
This and many things more makes us naturally realize , that nothing happens owing to chance . Even the quiver of a leaf has a cause........
Yes. Awareness of those experiences would be very beneficial, especially in the avoidance of mistakes, which lead to further rebirths.Sanjay PS wrote:If some one does get to see the many countless births that one has lived doing skillful and unskillful actions , resulting in the growth of the seeds and its fruits , still the actual transformation of abandoning all unskillful actions will come only when one is saturated for sufficient time in the feeling of deep wisdom or bhavana. The seeing of births earlier can serve to the extent of being an inspiration. It is the feeling that is all important , and gets about the gradual change in all of us. Thereby helping us help ourselves in taking care of the many unfortunate .
It is a time tested trite truism that "Failure to learn the lessons of the past doom us to repeat them in the future."
Great post! Thanks
As you have rightly quoted , cause and effect is not just limited to kamma , but also to all activities that happen day to day , hence , the quiver of the leaf , has the cause of the breeze blowing through, which also has many causes to it , and it goes on....... . Even the sensations , reactions, resulting consciousness that we feel from moment to moment , are not just limited to kamma , but also , to the environment , the food taken , posture and other causes . What is important is to develop wisdom that the pleasant sooner or later turns to unpleasant and that the unpleasant also invariably turns to the pleasant . All in a state of flux , all in a state of change , carrying with it the inherent seed of decay . Thus do the Buddhas say , that sensations can be the point on which our liberation can strongly depend on, only and only if , should we understand its characteristics with wisdom .
Its so nice have the inspiration of the sangha , thank you .
sanjay
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The path of Dhamma is no picnic . It is a strenuous march steeply up the hill . If all the comrades desert you , Walk alone ! Walk alone ! with all the Thrill !!
U S.N. Goenka
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I've seen Bhikkhu Pesala on this forum has given multiple examples from Tipitaka about people being born with difficulties because of past kamma. I'm on my mobile now so even if I could find those posts, I couldn't copy them here. Maybe someone else, maybe bhikkhu himself, would be kind to do so.
The nikaya's also say that all actors go to hell ...
“Knowing that this body is just like foam,
understanding it has the nature of a mirage,
cutting off Māra’s flower-tipped arrows,
one should go beyond the King of Death’s sight.”
understanding it has the nature of a mirage,
cutting off Māra’s flower-tipped arrows,
one should go beyond the King of Death’s sight.”
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chownah wrote:DNA?AJungianIdeal wrote:I'm trying real hard to try and make rebirth mesh with neuroscience. Does rebirth depend on a dualistic conception of the mind? If not, what gets "transferred" as it was?
chownah
Even if it did happen, and you knew how it happened, would that liberate your mind from dukkha?
“Knowing that this body is just like foam,
understanding it has the nature of a mirage,
cutting off Māra’s flower-tipped arrows,
one should go beyond the King of Death’s sight.”
understanding it has the nature of a mirage,
cutting off Māra’s flower-tipped arrows,
one should go beyond the King of Death’s sight.”
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Come on dhamma wheelers! 10 more pages and this topic gets to 5 000 posts!
'This is peace, this is exquisite — the resolution of all fabrications; the relinquishment of all acquisitions; the ending of craving; dispassion; cessation; Unbinding.' - Jhana Sutta
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Modus.Ponens wrote:Come on dhamma wheelers! 10 more pages and this topic gets to 5 000 posts!
“Knowing that this body is just like foam,
understanding it has the nature of a mirage,
cutting off Māra’s flower-tipped arrows,
one should go beyond the King of Death’s sight.”
understanding it has the nature of a mirage,
cutting off Māra’s flower-tipped arrows,
one should go beyond the King of Death’s sight.”
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Dear friends,
Confidence/faith/belief (<---synonyms on a psychological level) in the Buddha's enlightenment necessarily entails belief in kamma and rebirth which are cornerstones of the his teaching (the Dhamma).
If you don't have faith that the Buddha was fully enlightened, then all of his teachings come under your skeptical doubt and you can pick and choose what you want like someone who only eats the frosting off a cake.
If one believes there is no rebirth and no consequences of actions performed in this life that manifest later, then one inclines to nihilism.
Confidence/faith/belief (<---synonyms on a psychological level) in the Buddha's enlightenment necessarily entails belief in kamma and rebirth which are cornerstones of the his teaching (the Dhamma).
If you don't have faith that the Buddha was fully enlightened, then all of his teachings come under your skeptical doubt and you can pick and choose what you want like someone who only eats the frosting off a cake.
If one believes there is no rebirth and no consequences of actions performed in this life that manifest later, then one inclines to nihilism.
Craving leads to becoming which leads to birth."And what is the noble truth of the origination of stress? The craving that makes for further becoming — accompanied by passion & delight, relishing now here & now there — i.e., craving for sensuality, craving for becoming, craving for non-becoming."
-DN 22
'I have said: "Becoming conditions birth."'
-DN 15
"And what is birth? Whatever birth, taking birth, descent, coming-to-be, coming-forth, appearance of aggregates, & acquisition of [sense] spheres of the various beings in this or that group of beings, that is called birth.
-DN 22
Namo tassa bhagavato arahato samma sambuddhassa
Namo tassa bhagavato arahato samma sambuddhassa
Namo tassa bhagavato arahato samma sambuddhassa
Namo tassa bhagavato arahato samma sambuddhassa
Namo tassa bhagavato arahato samma sambuddhassa
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If you don't have faith that the Buddha was fully enlightened, then all of his teachings come under your skeptical doubt and you can pick and choose what you want like someone who only eats the frosting off a cake.
Not believing in rebirth doesn't equal non belief in the Buddha being fully awake.
Straw man! Non adherence to metaphysics doesn't always entail nihilismIf one believes there is no rebirth and no consequences of actions performed in this life that manifest later, then one inclines to nihilism.
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .irel.htmlAbandoning (the views) he had (previously) held and not taking up (another), he does not seek a support even in knowledge. Among those who dispute he is certainly not one to take sides. He does not [have] recourse to a view at all. In whom there is no inclination to either extreme, for becoming or non-becoming, here or in another existence, for him there does not exist a fixed viewpoint on investigating the doctrines assumed (by others).
The Dhamma is more to do with what is pragmatic (I.e. Useful) than what is ontological.
“Knowing that this body is just like foam,
understanding it has the nature of a mirage,
cutting off Māra’s flower-tipped arrows,
one should go beyond the King of Death’s sight.”
understanding it has the nature of a mirage,
cutting off Māra’s flower-tipped arrows,
one should go beyond the King of Death’s sight.”
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Birth of identification if I identity with my decaying body, then I become that which diesCraving leads to becoming which leads to birth.
Through anatta, how can "I" be identified with anything that decays? Therefor there is the deathless, in this moment, to be experienced by the wise
“Knowing that this body is just like foam,
understanding it has the nature of a mirage,
cutting off Māra’s flower-tipped arrows,
one should go beyond the King of Death’s sight.”
understanding it has the nature of a mirage,
cutting off Māra’s flower-tipped arrows,
one should go beyond the King of Death’s sight.”
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Dear clw_uk
But, answer me this instead: what happens when you die?
"Among those who dispute he is certainly not one to take sides."
Clearly, you're not taking sides in this debate...
And you're here debating on an internet forum?
No, that's called "eating the frosting off the cake". You don't want to believe in the Buddha's teaching on rebirth so you pick and choose what Dhamma teachings you want to believe in. That's called "grabbing a snake by its tail".clw_uk wrote:If you don't have faith that the Buddha was fully enlightened, then all of his teachings come under your skeptical doubt and you can pick and choose what you want like someone who only eats the frosting off a cake.
Not believing in rebirth doesn't equal non belief in the Buddha being fully awake.
Granted, it is a straw man argument as well as a slippery slope argument. I regret writing it.clw_uk wrote:Straw man! Non adherence to metaphysics doesn't always entail nihilismIf one believes there is no rebirth and no consequences of actions performed in this life that manifest later, then one inclines to nihilism.
But, answer me this instead: what happens when you die?
Again, you show that you pick and choose what Dhamma you want to believe in. Here is another part of that exact same sutta that you neglected to mention:clw_uk wrote:Abandoning (the views) he had (previously) held and not taking up (another), he does not seek a support even in knowledge. Among those who dispute he is certainly not one to take sides. He does not [have] recourse to a view at all. In whom there is no inclination to either extreme, for becoming or non-becoming, here or in another existence, for him there does not exist a fixed viewpoint on investigating the doctrines assumed (by others).
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .irel.html
The Dhamma is more to do with what is pragmatic (I.e. Useful) than what is ontological.
"Among those who dispute he is certainly not one to take sides."
Clearly, you're not taking sides in this debate...
That's a view that you are clinging to. It's impermanent and will be laid down along with the five aggregates.Birth of identification if I identity with my decaying body, then I become that which dies
Through anatta, how can "I" be identified with anything that decays?
So you're an arahant, are you? You are wise? You've experienced Nibbana? You've destroyed the taints? You're free of all greed, hate and delusion? You've lived the holy life? You've done what has to be done? You will no more come to any state of being? You can "enter upon and abide in the deliverance of mind and deliverance by wisdom that are taintless with the destruction of the taints" (MN 12)?clw_uk wrote:Therefor there is the deathless, in this moment, to be experienced by the wise
And you're here debating on an internet forum?
Namo tassa bhagavato arahato samma sambuddhassa
Namo tassa bhagavato arahato samma sambuddhassa
Namo tassa bhagavato arahato samma sambuddhassa
Namo tassa bhagavato arahato samma sambuddhassa
Namo tassa bhagavato arahato samma sambuddhassa
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No thats called reading my mindNo, that's called "eating the frosting off the cake". You don't want to believe in the Buddha's teaching on rebirth so you pick and choose what Dhamma teachings you want to believe in. That's called "grabbing a snake by its tail".
The perception of "me" dying is a delusion born in the present momentBut, answer me this instead: what happens when you die?
Ajahn Sumedh"Rebirth," like "reincarnation," is a term that's used generally referring to having gone through a series of different lives, and then there are various views about whether once you get reincarnated into human form where you can go, become a frog again or something like that. . . . But the truth of the matter is, nobody really knows.
...
With awareness practice, however, one is not being asked to believe in anything or to operate from any theory - or even to regard ones own preferences for the afterlife - but to recognize the way it actually is at this moment.
..."So this helps me to recognize that I don't have to know what happens after physical death, because I cant know, and it doesn't really matter. I am not asking for some kind of affirmation to make me feel better"
Ajahn Sumedho
"Among those who dispute he is certainly not one to take sides."
Clearly, you're not taking sides in this debate...
I dont, you do
“Knowing that this body is just like foam,
understanding it has the nature of a mirage,
cutting off Māra’s flower-tipped arrows,
one should go beyond the King of Death’s sight.”
understanding it has the nature of a mirage,
cutting off Māra’s flower-tipped arrows,
one should go beyond the King of Death’s sight.”
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And you cant see the hypocrisy here?That's a view that you are clinging to. It's impermanent and will be laid down along with the five aggregates.
So you're an arahant, are you? You are wise? You've experienced Nibbana? You've destroyed the taints? You're free of all greed, hate and delusion? You've lived the holy life? You've done what has to be done? You will no more come to any state of being? You can "enter upon and abide in the deliverance of mind and deliverance by wisdom that are taintless with the destruction of the taints" (MN 12)?
And you're here debating on an internet forum?
Said like someone who hasnt read the suttas in detail, if you had you wouldnt make such a silly comment (and a poorly disguised ad homein)
“Knowing that this body is just like foam,
understanding it has the nature of a mirage,
cutting off Māra’s flower-tipped arrows,
one should go beyond the King of Death’s sight.”
understanding it has the nature of a mirage,
cutting off Māra’s flower-tipped arrows,
one should go beyond the King of Death’s sight.”
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Dear clw_uk,
While I was writing that post, I felt evil, unwholesome states arising in me yet I continued to write it. And I felt disturbed and disgusted afterwards. I regret writing that post or even posting in this contentious thread. My apologies to everyone.
Clw_uk: We shall have to agree to disagree.
I wish you all happiness.
While I was writing that post, I felt evil, unwholesome states arising in me yet I continued to write it. And I felt disturbed and disgusted afterwards. I regret writing that post or even posting in this contentious thread. My apologies to everyone.
Clw_uk: We shall have to agree to disagree.
I wish you all happiness.
Namo tassa bhagavato arahato samma sambuddhassa
Namo tassa bhagavato arahato samma sambuddhassa
Namo tassa bhagavato arahato samma sambuddhassa
Namo tassa bhagavato arahato samma sambuddhassa
Namo tassa bhagavato arahato samma sambuddhassa
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Mkoll wrote:Dear clw_uk,
While I was writing that post, I felt evil, unwholesome states arising in me yet I continued to write it. And I felt disturbed and disgusted afterwards. I regret writing that post or even posting in this contentious thread. My apologies to everyone.
Clw_uk: We shall have to agree to disagree.
I wish you all happiness.
Thank you for the honesty
That would show though that you are attached to notions of existing after death
“Knowing that this body is just like foam,
understanding it has the nature of a mirage,
cutting off Māra’s flower-tipped arrows,
one should go beyond the King of Death’s sight.”
understanding it has the nature of a mirage,
cutting off Māra’s flower-tipped arrows,
one should go beyond the King of Death’s sight.”