134-Rebirth - Buddhism in daily life

Rebirth


Rebirth is a subject that fascinates outsiders and Buddhists
about Buddhism.


Reincarnation was also a fixture in Christianity until this
doctrine was banned as "unacceptable" in the Council of
Constantinople in 553. However, Christian doctrine says that
Jesus Christ was resurrected from the dead.


First of all something very important at the beginning: Not all
Buddhists believe in rebirth! Also in the teaching of the Indian
prince there are different schools (similar to Christianity),
which follow other views. For example, the "Mahayana" school
(Japanese:Zen or Chinese: Chan) does not require a belief in
reincarnation, while the "Theravada" school (and here especially
the "Vajrayana" philosophy) holds partly opposite views.


Many spiritual paths have developed in Buddhism over the
centuries, but rebirth is not a mandatory content of the Chan
(Zen) teachings.


The "path of reality" is not about the path itself, but about
where the path leads, namely to nirvana. The doctrine of rebirth
indicates that those who could not reach nirvana in this life
then have another opportunity in the next incarnation.


Personally, I not only believe in rebirth, I am convinced of it
because I can remember my past lives (to some extent).


I believe that reincarnation is the transcendence of ego-identity
towards realization, which proceeds over many lifetimes, as
Buddha-nature is very difficult to find, overlaid by the debris
of events.


We must understand that there is no place to hide, no place that
can overcome impermanence. Only in us can we find the emptiness
that corresponds to an incredible fullness.


Our thought palace lives in patterns, "good" or "bad", "right" or
"wrong", "below" or "above", "black" or "white", every thought
contains the opposite already at its origin, otherwise it could
not arise at all. So also birth and death, which then finds its
cycle in the rebirth, but in the Nirvana everything is
extinguished, because the Nirvana is only a state of mind. Thus,
even the awakened one who has entered nirvana can be reborn if he
has not yet been granted the completion of all tasks.


In Nirvana everything is balanced, nothing is important, neither
the birth nor the death, so that the new incarnation does not
matter either, everything loses its value when time and space
merge into one big context.


All people who have already lived and all those who will live,
they are connected, in the now and in the here.


Can you remember your lives?


The path is the goal!


Purification comes through the cycle of rebirth


- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before
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