Personally I cannot imagine that we live this life, learn, love and go through all that we do and then it's all over. I believe in the candle's flame being passed on to each new candle to keep the light lit.
@A Student For Life I know! If we had all that, it would be a whole seperate soul starting their only life. We get one chance, and when we die, we go to heaven, and stay for eternity. Unless there might be another life waiting for us, but as a Christian, I don't think God would break our hearts like that. Making us have another family, another home, etc...
@@aaronjamesgoodwin9275 Alternatively, one's ability to comprehend or even accept oblivion doesn't mean it is our fate. I'm on neither side. I simply accept the fact that we do not know; however, there's never harm in positing ideas or sharing how one believes & copes with the inevitability of death & what may or may not come afterward.
Well when thinking about it if death really is just the end of it then the life we experience should just be a flash and we shouldn't even bother living in the first place even sciene and philosophy says that there is a reason for everything and i doubt the reason for our life is just live and do shit then 4get it
I believe in past lives. My daughter recalls many of her past lives and relates stories to me. She indicated that we are "buddies" and are always together in our lives.
irfan Shaikh I was talking to that person who said that the kid overdosed drugs not about the kid believing in reincarnation I myself don’t believe in any god but in reincarnation
Hi Mindah-Lee. I loved the video. My experience with past life memories is this. I've always had a very strong aversion to anything relating to ancient Egypt. Growing up, many kids and adults around me were fascinated by the images of ancient Egypt and especially when King Tut's mummy came to the US on a tour, there was a bit of an ancient Egypt fervor. I found it all revolting. I had a strong physical reaction to all of it, wanting to run away as soon as anything came on the tv about ancient Egypt, or anyone brought the subject up. I'd also have recurring day-dreams of being housed with other people, packed like sardines in a can, in a dark, hot, sweaty place underground. The overwhelming feeling was of being chattel, of being a slave. Many years later, when my daughter was still very small, we saw a movie together set in ancient Egypt, and we both started shaking and crying for no apparent reason. I had a sense of knowing that we had undergone terrible suffering and most likely been been separated and murdered for some sort of black magic ritual. Hence, my aversion to anything Egyptian. Fast forward a few years, and we visited a children's museum with a section on ancient Egypt. I hesitated to go through it knowing I would not enjoy it and already feeling disgust for the Egyptian death cult, but the museum had information on the happier parts of ancient Egyptian culture, such as the various games they played, the foods they ate and how they mourned for their cats when they died, as much as a family member. Thankfully, I was able to let go of some of my negative emotions by the end of our walk through the museuem. I later learned that Egyptologists had discovered that slaves in Egypt were housed in conditions similar to what I had envisioned as a small girl.
I made many mistakes with my husband who passed on- my one and only love. I want only one thing - and that is to meet him again - all over again in another life and get it all right this time.
@@zerotwosixty7416 it really exists because When you die, another you is born your spirit will leave your dead body and will transfer Into the new born body. And you start life then you die then the cycle starts again
I have experienced reincarnation before. I don't remember it now but however my dad told me that 1 year after I was born something special happened. I couldn't speak back then but however on one special day I spoke. I told him that 300 years ago I was his wife and that he died in the war. After his death I died and then went and looked for him and then finally found him 300 years later at an airport. I decided to just go into reincarnation again and then soon my mom gave birth to me. After that I never spoke again until the age of 2 and 1/2 years old. It's pretty weird.
When my younger brother was about two he told us all about the yellow house he used to live in. He described it with way more detail that a two year old should have been able to.
dale gribble He’s trolling you dude just ignore him. You have made your points and I promise people will still see your messages. He’s probably a 9 - 14 year old child. He won’t stop, don’t feed into the fire. It’s funny right when you sound intelligent and prove someone partially wrong & they don’t have any real evidence they revert back to primal, low intelligence insults, to further their conscious beliefs around a subject their limited intellect won’t allow them to comprehend.
I believe in Evolution and Reincarnation because I had a dream of Nirvana where souls were in a aura bubble resting peacefully because they have reached the state of enlightenment. During that time I was a Christian but left Christianity because I rather believe in that than live a life of fear because of hell and internal torment after death.
@Bre D In my experience I grew up Christian and in some ways I still consider myself a Christian but I'm questioning. I'm gay and have tried to change that and just can't. The bible doesn't speak well of that although there is a lot of debate and ways to interpret it according to some. So I fear going to hell if I ever fall in love with a man and want a romantic relationship with one....some things in Christianity don't make sense to me. Like can you lose your salvation? It honestly depends on who you ask cause soo many Christians have different beliefs on it. Why would a gay man or women who marries the same sex and claims to be saved go to hell while a straight married Christian who also "sins" while saved is exempt from hell? I feel like many misinterpret what the bible is saying and use fear too often.
@@Daniel-dl6cu I get that but you can't change who you are. Doesn't the bible say, that God loves all his children? So he should all people. They does include gay people
@@Daniel-dl6cu well you know what... Forget what they say, you do you. Never live your life concerned with what people think of you. You are no different than a straight person.
Same I been raised a Muslim but all I’ve heard is if you don’t do this hell is waiting for you, if you don’t do that you’ll burn for entirety if anything it pushed me away tbh. Why live my life scared of going to hell
You are very close to what we Muslims believe, the only difference is that even this world is real , also like you said, we will be back to where we belongs to
I am not Buddhist but I find the teaching of the Buddha exceptionally appealing. I especially like the emphasis on finding, the middle path. I have had several powerful past life experiences. Perhaps the most vivid of these occurred during a Reiki session. In that instance I experienced a period before my birth, and then the birth itself. The intensity of the experience was such that I have no doubt that what occurred was the memory or a real event. The birth process was exceptionally difficult and painful and I was badly injured as a result. Those injuries were retained in my body as muscle memories and have surfaced in various physical problems over the years. These were unexplained until such after undergoing the rebirth. After undergoing that experience the cause of those physical issues suddenly became absolutely clear. I've had several other spontaneous past life regressions, triggered by seeing certain objects or having a specific highly emotional interaction. As a result I am entirely sure that our soul is reborn through more than one lifetime.
***** Reincarnation means there is a soul that goes out of your body and enters another body. That is a very popular, very wrong notion of continuation in Buddhism. If you think that there is a soul, a self, that inhabits a body, and that goes out when the body disintegrates and takes another form, that is not Buddhism. When you look into a person, you see five skandhas, or elements: form, feelings, perceptions, mental formations, and consciousness. There is no soul, no self, outside of these five, so when the five elements go to dissolution, the karma, the actions, that you have performed in your lifetime is your continuation. What you have done and thought is still there as energy. You don’t need a soul, or a self, in order to continue. It’s like a cloud. Even when the cloud is not there, it continues always as snow or rain. The cloud does not need to have a soul in order to continue. There’s no beginning and no end. You don’t need to wait until the total dissolution of this body to continue-you continue in every moment. Suppose I transmit my energy to hundreds of people; then they continue me. If you look at them and you see me, well, you have seen me. If you think that I am only this [points to himself], then you have not seen me. But when you see me in my speech and my actions, you see that they continue me. When you look at my disciples, my students, my books, and my friends, you see my continuation. I will never die. There is a dissolution of this body, but that does not mean my death. I continue, always. That is true of all of us. You are more than just this body because the five skandhas are always producing energy. That is called karma or action. But there is no actor-you don’t need an actor. Action is good enough. This can be understood in terms of quantum physics. Mass and energy, and force and matter-they are not two separate things. They are the same. -Thich Nhat Hanh
I also think of the soul as energy because obviously the essence of life is not confined to a singular aspect of being. Energy can take any form, it is not limited by what we might imagine. However I do also consider the self, as a consttuct within this idea, but self is not singular but collective, because all beings are joined as part of the same energy. Because the world is dualistic in nature, we have the illusion of separatness. I can't comment further on how my view may differ from the Buddhist view, because as I stated in my previous comment, I am not Buddhist. However when I refer to soul, I imagine a drop of water. While it is a drop it can be identified as being singlar only because it is separated from other water. However, the drop is still water and so is never really separated from its essential nature. If dropped back into the ocean it becomes indistingusiable from this larger body. If the water brought with it something which does is not water, this something then joins in the water as a new experience. So I think it is with the soul. When we as individuals return universal energy from which we spang, we take with us the experiences of what we might call us. Such experiences are both singular within the confines of being unique to the experience we called ours, and also part of the collective energy which is common to all life.
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The only aggregate in Buddhism that may be considered to be continued after death is consciousness. But consciousness is also changing moment to moment. Consciousness builds upon the former moment, but it isn’t the same. So unfortunately I think there is little science can do to track it. However, science can certainly add weight to the value and benefit of practicing meditation. And the findings in quantum physics are said to be very supportive of what the Buddha described as ultimate reality.
Mindah-Lee Kumar (The Enthusiastic Buddhist) Science doesn’t have the answers to everything, and everything they can’t find an answer for they’ll say it’s just the brain playing tricks.Sighs
My friend died of colon cancer in August 2020 I have been very upset about this and just felt a little down . But one day I was watering my garden and I noticed that my my water garden there was a lotus flower that had blossomed there.At first I thought wow that’s so nice I only got three flowers earlier this year , now here is this nice gift.Then I started thinking that this was very unusual for it to blossom this time of the year. It’s season for flowering was two months passed.It has never produced flowers this time of the year never in 2o years I think it was a sign from my friend telling me that everything was ok and all is well, don’t feel bad. At least that was one way of bringing some happiness to the sadness that I had been experiencing. I think in the next life I would like to be a flower so that it may possibly comfort people who are dealing with sadness .
Many people get dreams and young children even remember past lives. It's scary to think you could get abused, but don't stress about dying. We all die someday, right? Just live your life and enjoy it, don't think about death.
Simulation! I want you guys to be aware of the most important remote viewing project EVER! Brett Sinclair and Technical intuition did a remote viewing project called "Moksha-Soul-trap" and it confirms almost into smallest detail what Wes Penre and Robert Stanley writes about! A summary below: The viewers' description of the target location (Earth): an "innocent planet" that has had a barrier or gird around it that traps people and objects; a deliberate function that acts like a cage; a form of perverted injustice occurring; harrowing, bone-chilling; refugee camp; magnetic force that stirs and agitates; a net that's been spun, that catches and releases; massive grid around the planet; souls are drained at the expense of energising something else, clockwork nature over long expanse of time Very high-tech shield around planet, so high-tech it's almost like "magic" Magnetic vise, squeezes tightly around the Earth People are lost, they don't understand what's happening Souls are being "bent back" towards the Planet (reincarnation grid?) What happens to the Soul? The mind and body is splayed and fractured each time it's pulled back into the reincarnation grid; something is being extracted and taken from them without their conscious awareness to power something else; Brett uses the analogy of extracting honey from the bees. Souls are being fed on by external parasitic force Some warped, sadistic and twisted force is behind this process How did this begin? Planet was viewed with extreme envy by external force, at that time there was no reincarnation grid; massive war when Planet was invaded and those who were protecting the Planet lost; Earth was "given up" in an armistice. How to achieve Moksha? Brett describes the release of the Soul from the body as cosmic particles being expelled from the centre of the nervous system, and technically has the freedom to go anywhere instead of being trapped in this hostage situation; however, this is dependent on the angle from which the Soul exits the body, a 45-degree angle was mentioned; if this is attained, there is a group of Beings that will help Soul escape, it's like they are the safety rope; Brett feels that this group is connected to the one that was formerly protecting the Planet; fear also prevents most from escaping; achieving Moksha is analogous to having all the vise-grips and cables being ripped out of the head and finally being liberated. Why was the system created? This control system is just a small component of a larger system; the controllers are like demons; the alchemical process of the mayhem and negativity on the Planet's surface feeds the controllers; some of these energies or Soul aspects are extracted and shipped off somewhere else; "enslaved", bundled up like twigs for kindling; massive amount of injustice; system was created to provide fuel and energy for other systems and conquest (sort of like to feed the expanding "empire"); the energy empowers the massive system. Who is responsible? A council of organic entities that exist in a sort of timeless "bubbles" of void zones from where they exert their influence on other timelines, essentially immortal; they have set themselves up as gods and view themselves as such, believing in having "authority" to control; they are very evil, service-to-self; eyes are "blazing white"; when the viewers remote-viewed these beings, they are aware of being viewed but they are dismissive of the viewers, it is of no relevance to them; they are bent on conquest and perpetuating a system of control.
Thanks for your activity. Nice way of telling the fact, very good. All composite things arise, breaks, and occurs again - on and on, but the mind is timeless, unchanging, shiny ready open, joyous and loving.
Hi! I just found your videos and I love them. Thanks for making them. I'm still seeking and trying to figure out my path but reincarnation is the one thing I know for certain. I have many vivid memories of past lives. The life that I have the most and clearest memories of is from Ancient Rome in the first century BCE. I was a mid level senator, so I wasn't particularly powerful or influential myself. However, I was a close friend and follower of Gaius Julius Caesar. I have memories of us growing up together. I remember serving under him in his legions in Gaul. I have a particularly vivid memory of the two of us strolling through the Forum one day in the bright sunlight, our heads inclined close to each other deep in conversation. I don't recall the exact words but everything else is quite clear. And I remember my deep sorrow and anger upon learning of his betrayal and murder. I have no doubt that these are real memories. I also have had other memories where is was a young girl in medieval India, scared because I was being forced into a marriage to someone I didn't like. So, I have an unshakable belief in reincarnation. Just wanted to share that. Thanks again for all you do. -Joe
One of the ultimate of the mysteries.As someone who follows the Buddhist teachings, I have decided that only personal experience can provide the answer,so do not spend time in this area.Mindah,I had to play this video three times to absorb it as you spoke at rocket-type speed.
That's lovely to hear. I'm glad you're open minded to it and you've given your daughter the opportunity to express herself. I have no doubt that our past karma brings up back together again and again.
This idea is very intriguing to me.. when i was a kid i kept asking myself what am i in my past life or who am i in my past life,even though i don't know the concept of reincarnation during those time.. and i was born into a christian family.. during my childhood i always cry, it's like i don't belong to the family i was born into.. and i always dream about a family i was once into.. then they started to fade.. until i dream of them no more.. it's like missing someone you don't know..
I would like to begin by saying I am thankful to Mindah-Lee Kumar for being such a good teacher. I love her videos and website and have been watching and reading almost every night for a month now, and I am beginning to see the improvements in my thoughts by practicing the methods she has laid out. Thanks Mindah! One of the things I took away from these videos is the importance of questioning (because obviously the Buddha was very proficient at questioning). So here is my take on the meaning of reincarnation. I would like it to be questioned by all of you. You are part of the universe experiencing itself. In this perspective we are each other, because I am part of the universe experiencing itself as well. When I die, you may still live. In this manner I still live through you as part of the universe. You are the shapes resulting from complex entanglements of matter and energy. One such shape is consciousness capable of self-aware experience. Consciousness capable of illusion. Does the lack of experiencing, constitute an experience if there is nothing to do the experiencing? When I die there will be no functioning brain in my body to sense the lack of there being any sensations, or any thoughts. The illusion of being, can only be sustained inside of a container similar to that of any sentient being capable of sensation. New brains (or structures capable of organizing perceptions) are growing all the time in the universe. Therefore what transfers at the moment of death is only the illusion which never existed in the first place (there is no self); so "Transfers" is really not the right word. Instead, let us say: "the phenomena of experiencing" arises in the place it is most likely to arise in: sentient beings possessing structures capable of sensation like brains! It seems kinda self-evident when it is thought about. Thanks
Then how could the memory of one person, which is present in the complex structures of that person ever carry over to another person? Even in a collective consciousness view I would assume the memory to be separated.
You're right. I like when I hear that people haven't discounted rebirth entirely but have 'put it on the shelf' to look at another time. I think being willing to admit that we don't know it all is a sign of humility. :)
@Ivor According to Buddhism, hungry ghosts are beings too, those people are are too greedy and bad can be reborn as hungry ghosts. Buddhism don't believe in eternal soul like you described, I wonder where you learn it from.
I would say, Mindah-Lee, there is a sense in which rebirth is needed - it is Baptism, as seen in John 3:1-10: "Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews. He came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God; for no one can do these signs that you do apart from the presence of God.” Jesus answered him, “Very truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can anyone be born after having grown old? Can one enter a second time into the mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Very truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit. What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not be astonished that I said to you, ‘You must be born from above.’ The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can these things be?” Jesus answered him, “Are you a teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand these things?"
This is an EXCELLENT video. I am a licensed Buddhist spiritual doctor. Am very glad I found this. In the Buddhist teaching, Transmigration, Karma, Ethics, and personal intention are very strongly related. Buddhist theory and practice are founded on The Four Noble Truths, The Noble Eightfold Path, and The Twelve Links of Interdependent Origination. Without those there is no actual Buddhist teaching or practice. The Buddhist practice is based on the Noble Eightfold Path. One of the eight components or aspects is Ethics. Most generally, ethics refers to the Ten Nonvirtues and their mirror opposites the Ten Virtues. The Ten Virtues are standard in all expressions of Buddhist Great Way ( Mahayana ) practice. Ethical transgressions or great ethical virtue can manifest across multiple lifetimes. In fact, this is held to be quite common. To reject transmigration is to reject the basic Buddhist theory of karma. ___________________________ Yes, i do have a brief, very basic and very profound personal experience of "a previous lifetime." Just one. ( There are images of another Native American lifetime, but not so much a lived experience. ) It was as a poor itinerant Pure Land ( Amitabha )Buddhist priest at a small roadside shrine in the mountains of Japan. There was a cold and powerful downpour of rain, and I was wearing a poor man's coat made of loose sheaves of grain. I felt cold and hungry and miserable and lonely in the middle of nowhere, taking shelter in the shrine which was little more than a short wall and a small roof. I was chanting to Amitabha Buddha. And I did not know what to do next. This would probably have been somewhere near the year 900 CE in Japan. I can't fix a time or even a century, but that feels right. It was the medieval period. This inner experience however is only a brief flash. It occurred only once and it continued for less than a minute. In other words, it wasn't like a psychotic break. It seems very possible that I have been a Mahayana guru for numerous lifetimes. I was able to quickly work thru a number of issues and establish profound connections to highest level Buddhist transmissions, and become a Buddhist guru, within just a few short years. Then it took many years to become an effective teacher. ____________________________ My primary reference as a Buddhist guru is "Dakini Teachings" by Padmasambhava. This is worth a bookshelf of other books.
I was an atheist most of my life but I have always been fascinated with Buddhism and have recently read the Tibetan book of the dead and compared what I read to a dmt experience I had and it's changed my views dramatically.
Thanks. :) Looking at Google, it seems Dr. Jim Tucker was Dr. Ian Stevenson's successor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, which explains why their research is the same. I think I found Dr Brian Weiss's work the most convincing for me, even though it was perhaps lacking in scientific evidence. But I understand what you mean by needing your own personal experience to validate the possibility. I think many people probably feel this way too.
When my youngest daughter learned how to talk with sentences one of the first things she asked me is: Where is my real Mommy... She is a Mother herself now, but I often remember that question.
Roxanne Nelson Don't Think anything bad if i say... We all have met. in Samsara, somewhere. Being a relative, a close friend, mom, dad, employer, employee... it goes on and on. Thats probably why there shouldn't be any hate in this earth. i think this is another reason to practice Metta Meditation (:
I found your presentation was pretty good. Currently, I am writing a book based on my past life memories. I use your youtube sies as some of my references for the book. Through past life therapies, I remembered my 13 past lives and also see one future life in the 25th century. The oldest past life that I remembered is the one of the Ancient Atlantis.
According to the Mahayana Buddhist schools, memory is imprinted on the store consciousness, which is one of the eight consciousnesses that we all have (the others being eye consciousness, nose consciousness, etc). I would love to see it measured and verified one day, though I have no idea just how they might do it. The Dalai Lama is always pushing for scientific studies of Buddhist theories, maybe they will discover a way. :)
Skeptics are not trying to attack people's beliefs. We are trying to figure out what is really true, not just what we want to believe. The problem a lot of people have is being close minded that their own beliefs are wrong. To be truly open minded is to accept that a proposition you want to embrace is false.
Buddhism is a beautiful religion, which I am currently learning about and trying to practice. However, I can’t come to terms with the idea of previous lives. If I personally had a past life experience, I would not take that as any kind of proof, even if it matched with real life conditions. Self deception are coincidence is a far more plausible explanation. Human experiences are easily deceived and fooled. All of our senses are very imperfect and the human mind easily falls into deception and illusion. Sorry if this sounds a bit harsh. Just sharing how I feel on the topic. But regards to Buddhism overall as a life philosophy and guideline, I have a deep respect and reverence for it. I can truest improve your life as a person of moral and mortal consciousness 🧘🏼♂️
Victor Rikowski is it not your mind allowing that deception to exist? Quit coming at it so ferociously with a knife. Your literally asking for someone to pickpocket your watch and sell it back to you, when you ask other people if your beliefs are real. Who is really the judge of who’s mentally Ill? No one. Because its a man made illusion. Leading your mind into being deceived also, that using more of your brain is looked at as loopy! And that’s exactly how you won’t see it trying to come at it with a knife like that
Iam a buddhist. I can solve any doubt what u have in your mind up to some extent from my knowledge. If u like just ask me the questions. I would like to help you out.
Chandika Prashan Thanks for the offer. Sorry for my previous post, which was maybe too harsh put. I grew up in a non-religious family. My partner grew up muslim, but now is ex-muslim. I spent about a year previously looking into Buddhism. It is, by some distance, the religion I admire the most, but perhaps it’s not my cup of tea. I have many hobbies that I enjoy. No one should have to do something if they don’t want to. When I was emotionally unstable, I found meditation very helpful, but now that my situation in life is more happy, I feel it’s not needed anymore. We all have different journeys in life. Much love for you ❤️
Callum Smith Depends what you mean by misanthrope?? Bit confused by that. Having low expectations and outlooks on humanity is, in my view, just an emotion. Sometimes I look at the world and have hope and love for humans. Sometimes I struggle to say a single positive thing about us. It depends how I’m feeling. Like sadness and happiness, it’s a temporary feeling. Bit difficult to label any group of people as this or that thing.
My son just turned 13. Several years ago he told me that he had experienced dreams beginning at age 2-3 of dying in the World Trade Center on 9/11. He described being in the WTC, the fire and smoke, and jumping from the building. I was surprised, because he described the events quite accurately, and I knew that he had never seen any news or videos about 9/11, or previously discussed it with anyone. To my knowledge he knew nothing of the events of that day. I inquired and he stated that this was the case. That his dreams started at age 2-3 and he had never heard about 9/11 until a number of years later. This all seemed to be uncanny, because he was conceived in Oct., 2001.
***** I have read lot of scriptures and religious books such as devi bagavatham,quran,ramayana,mahabharatha.Yet i didnt understand the true nature of life.since my childhood,i heard about gotama buddha.now,i read his complete life and all his jatakas and dhammas.Now,i am completely satisfied with the real truth of life.I have a pdf copy of dhammapada.please share dhammapada to everyone.there are billions of people in this world who were not aware of the meaning of why they are living?
+Karthik Ramamoorthy The reason why you did not understand ancient Hindu texts is that they where written for a different mindset. Buddha refined them to make them easy to understand........He was a Hindu originally
I strongly believe in the continuation of life from birth to death to nirvana and rebirth. Having died twice, been in a COMA for over 7 weeks gave me special insight into past lives, spirits and the whole 10 levels of life. Reincarnation just makes sense.
Dear Minda. Wow, Very interesting! Q: Of all the Buddhist traditions which is the name of the ORIGINAL teachings of Siddhartha Gautama?? (Theravada, Mahayana, Zen, etc, etc). I'd really appreciate an answer from you. Thank you.
Everyone we meet in our present life is because of some connection with them from our past lives. Nothing in this present life is co-incidence. If we have taken something from someone, we have to return to them and they will meet us and go once the give and take is over. I feel everyone should return the favour so that the circle of life is complete. Do good karma today for ur present and all future lives u will get.
No you can't since we age and we can't even remember everything in this life. The Buddha said everything is ever-changing and not Impermanent. This logic proved no soul.
Ive been searching for evidence of reincarnation because i get depressed about how if u die then do u just do nothing forever and ever, but if people remember past lives then i believe that we may get new lives!
I'm skeptical about reincarnation, yet I keep thinking about the concept. I'm contemplating going in for a past life regression hypnosis session. If I experience anything I interpret as proof, I'll become a believer.
If Buddhists claim that Buddha has remembered all his previous lifes, how far can that be ? How can we have a previous lifes before the Earth has existed ? Or how can be reincarnated after the earth will dissapear with the death of sun ?
Since the begin-less of time from my basic understanding. it's hard to comprehend becoz when scriptures are translated to english, it would lost a bit of its meaning... Time is vast just like the universe, becoz of endless samsara, this is not the "only earth". Past,present n future, there will be many many many "earths", till samsara cease.
+rakuna üçyüzdört He's saying that we, for now, are bound to Earth, this Earth. but we are not alone, the universe is vast. when the Earth stops to exist we go to other earths and the cycle starts there again untill we reach enlightenment.
+umut barat buddha has told this is not the formest earth..we have face to thousands of world's ends..after earth is destroyed it begin to create again..there is not a end of this destrotng and recreating..
Your relatives story is interesting. I recall past lives for very long ago. From my perspective it is spiritually vital not only to realize we have lived before but to realize that it is vital to graduate from the wheel of reincarnation. I will share if you wish a video about how here- Reincarnation- Heather Reincarnation Talk Vardankar part 1 of 3
Like any force in the universe, I believe consciousness is a constant. Though our physical manifestations (within any type of life) are fleeting, the conscious whole, and biological proclivity (such as genetic predisposition) is what drives physical potential which makes up any given life and all life experience. That being said, death is material, whilst consciousness is as old as the universe itself.
I think some people miss the point on their comments, exposing a certain disagreement or addressing Mindah-Lee Kumar with a pretentious-aggressive tone. I have loved the video and the effort you have put on it; some people should develop tolerance and, if agreement is not experienced, at least try to hide one's disregard
so not to frighten anyone, or make you think I'm this insane person speaking nonsense, I have kept a secret... The sun was glaring down, the smell of salt water in the air, I remember the awful heat, and then explosions of shells in the distance... I was a soldier in a blue uniform.... I was African American, now I already know this sounds like the movie from 1988 Glory, but I never watched that movie until the mid 1990s and the dreams I had frightened my mom and dad, I hated thunder, not because it was thunder but would twitch and I would cry and tell my mom and she has the recordings still, of me saying the men in grey are shooting at me.... Now alarmed by this my mom when I was 8 took me to myrtle beach SC and we took a two day trip from there to Charleston SC, this is before seeing Glory later, we go to Fort Sumter and when I get there I walk thru the entrance, on to the hill to the back facing the Atlantic and look straight over to where the light house is on Morris island and say that's fort Wagner and my mom about collapsed horrified, the state park ranger walked over and asked what was the matter, and she said ask him what he just said and I said Fort Wagner and he turned blank, and stuttered a little and said well well yes son that is where fort Wagner once stood and he had me point to it, he said there is no way possible for you to know that, the fort was a earth works fort, it eroded decades ago.... He said I am not even sure how you know that, but yes, yes it is..... He looked at me kind of wild... I remember up to where I believe was my last moments, I was running and a shock hit me from the side and threw me and that is the end of it.... For some reason at 30, I am attracted to that place still, most of the dreams stopped as a child and when seeing glory for the first time, I replayed it at home 9 to 10 times and just cried..... I am not sure, but that is my story.... Its ok if you think I am a fake or a phony and I've never in my life shared this with a soul, but this brought it back for me and just trying to find answers on why I'm remembering this battle like I was there.....
Sakyamuni Buddha has a large teaching on his "past lives". Buddhist teachers speak of TRANSMIGRATION, which is different from reincarnation. In Buddhist teaching a person can thru their actions propel themselves into a higher realm or a lower realm, such as one of the god realms, or the animal realm. And a being in an animal realm or god realm can later transmigrate into the human realm. For more on this one can study the Bardo teachings, specifically those of Guru Padmasambhava. The mantra OM MANI PADMA HUM of the Great Being Avalaokitesvara is for purifying the causes of rebirth in each of the "Six Realms", including the God Realm and the Animal Realm. The Dalai Lama is known as the Fourteenth Dalai Lama because he is held to be the fourteenth remanifestation of a human teaching lineage, in other words, this is his fourteenth human lifetime as a Buddhist teacher. Many of my Buddhist teachers are held to be remanifestations of teaching lineages, such as His Holiness Karmapa ( Urgyen Trinley Dorje ), Very Venerable Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, HH Tai Situpa, HE Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche, Dzogchen Rinpoche and so forth. One of my teachers I have seen in two lifetimes. I received the comprehensive transmissions of Shangpa lineage holder HE Kalu Rinpoche in the 1980, and some years back received a transmission from his reincarnation Yangsi Kalu Rinpoche in Canada. The term "yangsi" means rebirth. I received numerous major transmissions from the Dudjom Revealed Treasure ( Dudjom Tersar ) of HH Dudjom Rinpoche. His passed away a generation ago and his reincarnation has begun giving major transmissions. I strongly support this teacher, even tho I have not seen him. There is also HH Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, from whom I received essential Nyingma transmissions and one-to-one Dzogchen transmission in eastern France back in 1990. The reincarnation of HH Dilgo Khyentse is presently teaching and has visited North America. The two great masters Kalu Rinpoche and Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche are of enormous importance to me and to my work as a tantric Buddhist spiritual doctor. Both these teachers were themselves reincarnations of great Nonsectarian ( Rime' ) masters who helped revitalize Buddhism in Tibet and preserve many major transmission lineages. HH Dilgo Khyentse was the reincarnation of Nonsectarian guru Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, and Kalu Rinpoche was the reincarnation of Nonsectarian guru Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye. I could give many more examples of major reincarnate Buddhist teaching lineages. They are not well known, but they are very important ( and important to me as being my teachers ). Some of these important but relatively unknown reincarnate masters are HH Chetsang Tulku Rinpoche and HE Garchen Rinpoche, both of the Drikung Kagyu order. As for myself, I have no internal definite "experience" of reincarnation as a Buddhist guru or practitioner in any lineage, or a specific sense of a prior life as a Tibetan or Chinese or other Buddhist culture. But I do recommend books by some of these Buddhist masters, including the following: "How To Practice" by the Dalai Lama; "The Dharma That Illuminates" by Kalu Rinpoche; "Heart Treasure Of the Enlightened Ones" by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. I also recommend all the teachings of HE Great Abbot ( Khenchen ) Thrangu Rinpoche. These are all Great Way / Mahayana Buddhist teachings. Mahayana is my primary focus for general teaching work. My primary teaching manual, which is a profound comprehensive teaching on Buddhadharma, is "Dakini Teachings" by Padmasambhava. This one book is worth a whole bookshelf of other books. "Dakini Teachings" is very clear and rigorous and entirely classical, but most people ( meaning muggles ) will find it challenging or even very difficult. It's one of the best books, but typically best approached after one or two other books. I have begun the major work of teaching authentic Buddhadharma on Google+. Here is my basic introductory article: From my Google+ home page. Under “About”, in the Links section: Buddhist Resources / Holy Day of "Buddha's Descent from Heaven" (New York City) 4275 views since posting on Friday, November 14, 2014 newyork.tribe.net/listing/Buddhist-Resources-Holy-Day-of-Buddhas-Descent-from-Heaven/new-york-ny/f21ea5b7-9664-493b-90ed-1238b77b62cf This is the context for approaching the Buddhist teaching. This is written in partial fulfillment of my responsibilities as guru. May All Beings Benefit! Sarva mangalam! All Our Relations. wcangel, Buddhist spiritual doctor and pipe carrier of the Lakota Sioux
It’s been a while since I read his books, but perhaps it was because the recollections/regressions were told by adults and some were verified (to a certain extent).
Your videos about Buddhism are very interesting, and I am learning a lot from you. While I am open to the concept of re-incarnation and had some experiences from a past life myself, there are some questions that I have, and haven't found an answer for. For instance, time to us is experienced as moving in one direction: forward. But what if that is only so because we perceive it that way in our system of reality, and it could be that time is actually simultaneous when we are out of our physical bodies, In which case we might be living many lives at the same time. On a more pragmatic level: I know it is believed that we all live lives as other sentient beings, so is there a a natural progression of what type of being we re-incarnate to? It would be hard for me to believe that there is some kind of hierarchy of creaturehoods we live through. We must have been frogs, or insects, or any other animal in previous lives.What makes us think we're going to be coming back to an already familiar type of existence, something similar to what we live now? And finally: it seems that in the Tibetan Buddhist world, it is most often young boys who are found to be re-incarnations of male Wise Ones who have recently died. Why is it that we aren't seeing more women who could have been wise men in previous incarnations. And vice versa.
i was once talking to a friend who is a psychotherapist who has sent patients to specialists who do past life regressions. he asked me what was my earliest memory. i sat and thought for a moment and then it came to me. i was in a big room , in a baby bed, and a bunch of other babies, all screeching . i was annoyed. there was a wide plate glass window and i could recall the color of the walls and the curtains. and i saw adults standing outside looking in at us. and i thought; "well, here we go again." i knew exactly where i was and what was going on. that sort of amazed him. i never have done a past life regression but it would be interesting to give it a shot. i thought about it and had to laugh. "again"? just how times have i been here already??? people always have called others "old souls". maybe for good reasons.
Nice video, im able to trace 2 past lives. One im an archer in a fight defending a castle. The other im my grandfather and can see my mom when she was very little. He past away before i was born by 3 months. These visions come thru dreams and while i meditate??? Ive been having dreams like this as since i was very young (like 6 to 7 years old. Love your channel.
I have had a recurring dream on and off since I was around 9 of a bridge collapsing during a festival in china with a young man and woman with 2 kids I looked up incidents like this happened long long ago and I got Extreamly depressed I believe in reincarnation since that day
This is a nice video, thank you. I have a few challenges though. I question whether reincarnation is really a valid alternative after-life belief. It offers immortality of a sort, but not personal. If I lose my personhood by reincarnating, how can I be held karmically responsible for my past life choices/actions/beliefs? In addition, it seems as though karma can be used to explain anything but then only after the fact. Also, if what I need to learn to reach enlightenment is clear, why so many lifetimes to reach it? And if what I need to know is not clear, it doesn’t seem fair to have to suffer through so many lifetimes. But my biggest challenge of all is the fact that with an infinite amount of lives to achieve the goal of enlightenment, a person would have already met the goal. After all, there cannot be a unique experience for something unconsciously eternal. Reincarnation just seems so unreasonable and illogical.
My earliest memory in life or my first every memory is white noise and pretty much watching my childhood home be built in fast-forward then waking up recalling my current name and just understanding the situation i'm in and that memory of white noise has been with me since the literal day one of my life
Hi, this fakhria from Australia and I am really curious about the concept of anatta and rebirth. I would like to get some source. if its possible. lots of thanks for providing such an informative video.
I'm atheist and originally raised as Christian and I get reborn as myself over and over again. It's in the same time period and same family. It's driving me crazy because no one in my family seems to have this happening to them. I can remember who I was and places I use to work at and everything. I can even remember friends I have yet I to meet. Now I know this isn't convincing to most atheists at a first read. Really remembering your future is like looking at your past. Yes you can make different choices. If you ask me how it's possible it's because of multiple dimensions. There are other I guess you 's out there as well. Im an atheist who believes in reincarnation though and claim to have experienced it. Deja vu is you remembering, hence it's happened before.
This was the documentary that first convinced me of life after death .I particularly like the last in the trilogy (Gwen McDonald ) mind blowing stuff .
We now more about the brain, mind and memory than ever before. Unfortunately, the knowledge available to society today makes little difference when people choose to believe something because they simply feel they want to believe that thing.
I feel that Samsara refers to something more mundane but equally powerful. that the karma we generate in our life, our good intentions and compassionate acts of virtue echo from us and into the lives of others, particularly the younger generations who are more receptive to our influence. When our actions are mindful, compassionate, and virtuous then the next generation grows in like. I study and practice Buddhism not so much to relieve myself from suffering but in hopes that the future generation will not suffer as we have. That anger, jealousy, and hatred are aberrations and not the norm because in my own subtle way I added to the positive karma of all sentient beings.
I’ve been enjoying your videos. Do you have a reading list on the site that includes material you have referenced? That would be very helpful. Thanks you.
Stephan Coertzen I had the same feeling when I was in Portugal staring at the Atlantic Ocean during sunset. I’m Mexican, btw, also think deserts calm my nerves.
Absolutely the most concise and best video I’ve seen on reincarnation. Thank you! I’ve been slightly obsessed with it, the subject, as I see so much great injustice in the world, especially toward people of color, and, reincarnation is the only thing that makes sense, and gives me solace
Or one of these Haven's Haven, Kansas, a city Haven, New York, a hamlet Haven, Washington, a ghost town Haven, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community Haven Township, Sherburne County, Minnesota
Since I was a little child until this very day I close my eyes, see a dark whirling movement. Then in the middle for only a few seconds appears blue sky seen from looking through a tube and seeing what I now believe it is a chain being swung very very fast. As I child I thought it was a ferries wheel I can't explain it other that some kind of view from a past life.
I've done my research, and not only do we get to reincarnate, but we get to choose what we reincarnate into. Now, I believe in reincarnation and I just just figured it out now, but you can choose if you want to reincarnate or not, and if you choose not to reincarnate then you can't change your mind... Although you can choose to reincarnate which I'm doing which let's you reincarnate infinite times. And I don't mean choose to reincarnate and you keep reincarnating forever, I'm saying that you can keep choosing to reincarnate and keep reincarnating forever. I'm trying to persuade you guys to keep reincarnating forever because you can learn lessons, become your greatest self and live you best live(s). I'm trying to persuade you guys because I don't want you to choose not to reincarnate and regret it. But if you really don't want to reincarnate then do what you wish. But if you don't really care if you reincarnate or not then I'm telling you to reincarnate so that you can enjoy yourselves and be happy.
Hi Min My understanding of the Alaya consciousness (the continuous flowing stream of karmic energy) is another word for soul. It transmigrates into appropriate body's that it is compatible with. One definition of Reincarnation means to be born into flesh. At this moment, I have an 80 kilogram body that is connected to and with an individual aspect of the Alaya consciousness that is referred to as "I" "individual" etc., The empirical self analogy is compatible with Buddhism and Vedanta as I currently understand it.
@Jah Mar but Bible & abrahmic religion never talk about birth & rebirth i guess.. Only indian origin religions talks this... Hinduism,bhuddism,shikhism & jainsim
@Jah Mar ok..i appreciate ur belifs....btw as i'm hindu indian...so i read 'Bhagvat gita'...in which god talk about birth & rebirth...based on your karma's....& You can achieve God by self realization...that is through enlightenment( by yogic practice-meditation)...so you can break this cycle of birth & rebirth.... & I choose to believe this.
@Jah Mar its because our soul's ultimate goal is to achieve moksha(liberation)..that is higher self...into god heaven...to free ourselves from this stupid cycle...we are bound to this material world satisfaction...& Always seek for happiness... This earthly lives are full of misery , difficulties , wretchedness , tyranny, poverty , exploitation ,tortures in general . In general every person wants to exploit the other person since Mahatma Gandhis are not many or rather have gone extinct The moments of peace and happiness outnumber moments of unhappiness . So what is the point in coming back to earth again and again ??? To suffer these miseries and unhappiness , treachery ??? Best option to rest our Souls in Spirit World permanently. But that doesnot happen so easily when we hold negative karmik bank ledger balances .its based on our good karma. So we should attain moksha(free from cycle)...for ultimate satisfaction & happiness💓
Can someone guide how long it takes to be reborn after death.my teen daughter 15 yrs old died last oct due to misc.a lovely child full of enthusiasm, hardworking,a champion at badminton guitar skating,etc, wanted by all her friends, always helpful.l miss her
I’m commenting out of order of enjoying your videos, but on the subject of destroying your diaries, wouldn’t it also mean the same thing to destroy photographs from the past?! TY for sharing.
Did you know that Jesus taught this as well but it is not in the cannon. In the book The Essene Humane Gospel of Jesus, he taught this same teaching. Intact it is recorded that he went to India and taught there the principles of humane love for all God's creation the animals as well, not to kill them and that you return to this world until perfected
I have read this as well that reincarnation was originally part of Christian teachings until the time of the Roman Emperor Constantine when he had whoever were considered the 'leaders' of Christianity at the time come to Rome to sort out exactly what it would or would not entail and reincarnation was one of a number of things to get written out of the Bible as we know it today.
I always dream of drowning and having knee injury. While trying my best to swim there's a man on the boat just looking at me not moving a muscle. I always cried and feel too much pain everytime I remember it. I feel that emotion in me and I just cried and I don't know why. This always bothers me.
I'm a believer in reincarnation but I am always open minded to all truth so as I considered the plausibility of reincarnation I thought about how it is possible to dream about our past live and discovered that not all dreams are memories of past lives due to the fact that people can dream of experiences past live events from 2 very close time period which doesn't make sense. For example, say you have a dream that you were living in another country in the present, you would know that that dream could not be you because you have not been in that country in that time period.
when i was like 4 or 3 i use to get flashes like i was in a car in Canada and i went over a bridge but i have never been to Canada and i use to get the flashes but since i got older i dont get it anymore so since then i think rebirth is possible like you die but reborn as someone else with new parents and dont remember your past but i got flashes like i could have seen what heppened to me
As a boy of about five years, I had a day time vision if you will, I saw window in time and space open up in front of me one day and I saw a mountain valley from out of a window, Ever green trees bordered the far side of the tall grassy meadow where black and white cows grazed. In the room I was standing, was my mother, the same mother as now, She was seated on a chair mending clothes. As now when this window opened up. She had her hair rolled into a long braid around the back of her head. My mother never had hair that long and that time it was short. The window in time closed, and went to mother climbed up on the chair opposite the table where she was seated and looked at her and asked how come she didn't wear her hair in a braid around her head any more.? She peered over the top of her very thick glasses at me and asked, "When was this ?". I responded and said ,"When we lived in Prussia". She said you mean Russia, I said "No mom, Russia is a different country, we lived in Prussia. Her mouth dropped open. So I got down from off the chair and went out side to play. There is more to this story but you get the idea. Yes I do believe in reincarnation. It is not a joke. I believe we have to live as many lives as we need to learn what the human experience is about.
Dr. Brian Weiss is amazing! I was fortunate to get to experience watching him regress people & participate in a group regression. The poor man couldn’t even go to the restroom w/out being followed as if he were Jesus! Miracles Happen was the book last written w/his daughter before this event at Omega at Rhinebeck, NY! I really enjoyed it & got to talk w/his daughter & saw his wife. A great experience! Thank you! I believe it...I’ve dreamt I have been killed as a toddler in WWII, as a little girl in the 1800’s dressed in red/white w/a matching hat...also killed by a man who was a farmer or cowboy, and once I dreamt I had a different face! When I was a young child, I was so terrified of the dark, I would barely ever sleep at night for fear I would be killed...later in this life my mother told me how my adopted brother would try to bounce me out of my carriage as a baby & later just before turning 13 he tried to kill me...he’s 11 yrs older. I thought my parents knew as an adult cousin was watching...I thought...surely she must’ve told them-nope! Dad passed before I found out either parent never knew about it.
OK I am definitely believing these people, these children talking about their past lives. But I’m confused because I have listened to people talk about their near death experience and that they went to hell and they all describe it to be the same, but I’ve also heard people talk about their near death experience of going to heaven and that they were greeted by family. So what is the absolute truth?
I do bekieve..my son recalled a past life brief story of him being on an island mention if a brown and white dog named Thalgi.. he kept sayung this when he was 2 half years old ..despite the fact we've never been to an island or had a dog till my son was 3 years old in this life
I am skeptical to the idea of past lives, but my mom has a past life story. As a young woman my mom is with her mother and grandmother while driving around town she was able to give directions through out the town of course without never being their before. She thinks that she died as a young child in a sledding accident or something with snow. Has open my mind some but still find myself a skeptic but i dont find any hindrances in my lack of faith so keep meditating kids the benefits are beyond believing ima going to a better place.
Very interesting and well presented. I would also recommend "Old Souls" by Tom Shroder. The author followed Dr. Ian Stephenson, one of the first researchers to approach reincarnation from an evidence-based point of view, on his travels collecting accounts of past life experiences. The author is something of a skeptic but he's at a total loss to explain what's going on. As for myself, I'm kind of on the fence but reincarnation would explain a lot. Keep up the good work.
Thank you for your video. If one's actions and feelings can be attributed to their past lives, then how does it properly explain it? Karma explains everything in hindsight, but how does it explain future events in foresight?
It seems to me, and perhaps my understanding is limited, or even incorrect, but ideas and concepts having to do with life after death, reincarnation, and past lives, notions of cosmology, eschatology, and various realms are Hindu notions, and not necessarily Buddhist ones. I recall a story about the Buddha where he was asked about various Hindu gods and what we should think of them etc,... He advised that these gods should follow whatever version of the eightfold path is pertinent to them, and that they needed to seek enlightenment just as we do.
After reading some Comments; “There are real people who have face & experienced these memories in their life so vividly ” “Everybody will not understand Buddhism, It is for the highly intellectual people” before anyone dash on my comment: Please read and understand the why Buddha born the way he is and to whome he taught, and his teachings.
We cannot say if past lives is true unless we experience it ourselves. However life offers an indirect experience in the sense that we are extremely attracted to some individuals and not others. We cannot always give a reason why we fall in love with some people or make friends. Another indicator is giftedness in a particular endeavor of life. You cannot explain how someone can play extraordinary music or play chess at a young age. Also one cannot explain why some people are born blind or die young. I know astrology so I know how karma is operating in this particular life to some extent. We carry the tendencies but not the actual experiences of previous lives.
When you lose the matter (the body) your lose emotion but maintain awareness concept and acknowledgement, proceeding you sprit will wait for you nerve, people mistake nerves as cell memory. You lose emotion but maintain emotional memories.You can't joke with a ghost.
Acknowledgement is call consciousness (Vijñāna) Awareness is call mental action (saṅkhāra) Concept is call conception (samjñā) Emotion or reception (vedanā) Matter is call form (rūpa)
I am completely convinced I have live before with no doubt! I am fascinated with death, not in a morbid sense but in way that leads to another life or plane if you will. At times I am anxious and impatient for my death, but not to take my own life. For I am quite certain that is how I have perished in my past life and had to return to repeat the course, with some penalties in this life, if you will. Buying the stairway to heaven can actually be somewhat related to reincarnation, in the sense of learning, improving, helping others and to perform a task or service to erase a debt in the past to elevate your existence in a future life to come.
Great video. A question that i wrestle with is that Buddhism accepts reincarnation but rejects the existence of the soul. So what is it that is reincarnating according to Buddhism?
Personally I cannot imagine that we live this life, learn, love and go through all that we do and then it's all over. I believe in the candle's flame being passed on to each new candle to keep the light lit.
That candle is dukkha lol
@A Student For Life I know! If we had all that, it would be a whole seperate soul starting their only life. We get one chance, and when we die, we go to heaven, and stay for eternity. Unless there might be another life waiting for us, but as a Christian, I don't think God would break our hearts like that. Making us have another family, another home, etc...
Your inability to comprehend oblivion doesn't mean it isn't our fate.
@@aaronjamesgoodwin9275 Alternatively, one's ability to comprehend or even accept oblivion doesn't mean it is our fate.
I'm on neither side. I simply accept the fact that we do not know; however, there's never harm in positing ideas or sharing how one believes & copes with the inevitability of death & what may or may not come afterward.
Well when thinking about it if death really is just the end of it then the life we experience should just be a flash and we shouldn't even bother living in the first place even sciene and philosophy says that there is a reason for everything and i doubt the reason for our life is just live and do shit then 4get it
I believe in past lives. My daughter recalls many of her past lives and relates stories to me. She indicated that we are "buddies" and are always together in our lives.
That’s so cool:)
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irfan Shaikh she is a child
@@leahxtra not the child but the one who believes in reincarnation and try to prove it.
irfan Shaikh I was talking to that person who said that the kid overdosed drugs not about the kid believing in reincarnation I myself don’t believe in any god but in reincarnation
Your videos are so clear, to the point, and informative. Thank you for taking the time make these, I feel better better off for watching them.
Hi Mindah-Lee. I loved the video. My experience with past life memories is this. I've always had a very strong aversion to anything relating to ancient Egypt. Growing up, many kids and adults around me were fascinated by the images of ancient Egypt and especially when King Tut's mummy came to the US on a tour, there was a bit of an ancient Egypt fervor. I found it all revolting. I had a strong physical reaction to all of it, wanting to run away as soon as anything came on the tv about ancient Egypt, or anyone brought the subject up. I'd also have recurring day-dreams of being housed with other people, packed like sardines in a can, in a dark, hot, sweaty place underground. The overwhelming feeling was of being chattel, of being a slave. Many years later, when my daughter was still very small, we saw a movie together set in ancient Egypt, and we both started shaking and crying for no apparent reason. I had a sense of knowing that we had undergone terrible suffering and most likely been been separated and murdered for some sort of black magic ritual. Hence, my aversion to anything Egyptian. Fast forward a few years, and we visited a children's museum with a section on ancient Egypt. I hesitated to go through it knowing I would not enjoy it and already feeling disgust for the Egyptian death cult, but the museum had information on the happier parts of ancient Egyptian culture, such as the various games they played, the foods they ate and how they mourned for their cats when they died, as much as a family member. Thankfully, I was able to let go of some of my negative emotions by the end of our walk through the museuem. I later learned that Egyptologists had discovered that slaves in Egypt were housed in conditions similar to what I had envisioned as a small girl.
I made many mistakes with my husband who passed on- my one and only love. I want only one thing - and that is to meet him again - all over again in another life and get it all right this time.
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Wonderful! Thank you so much! It is all I ever wanted. 😌
There is no next life sorry to ruin it for you, your husband is Gina forever there’s nothing after death.
If he is your soulmate then you will meet again. Soulmates are those who’ve you’ve been with before in a past life.
@@zerotwosixty7416 it really exists because When you die, another you is born your spirit will leave your dead body and will transfer Into the new born body. And you start life then you die then the cycle starts again
@@zerotwosixty7416 WRONG!
I have experienced reincarnation before. I don't remember it now but however my dad told me that 1 year after I was born something special happened. I couldn't speak back then but however on one special day I spoke. I told him that 300 years ago I was his wife and that he died in the war. After his death I died and then went and looked for him and then finally found him 300 years later at an airport. I decided to just go into reincarnation again and then soon my mom gave birth to me. After that I never spoke again until the age of 2 and 1/2 years old. It's pretty weird.
Reincarnation is the best thing to ever exist next to God.
@@abieyuwaokuoimose600 why
When my younger brother was about two he told us all about the yellow house he used to live in. He described it with way more detail that a two year old should have been able to.
Did he rebirth in the same country???
Trynos bro you dont have to talk about a child like that jeez he is only 2 years old
dale gribble He’s trolling you dude just ignore him. You have made your points and I promise people will still see your messages. He’s probably a 9 - 14 year old child. He won’t stop, don’t feed into the fire. It’s funny right when you sound intelligent and prove someone partially wrong & they don’t have any real evidence they revert back to primal, low intelligence insults, to further their conscious beliefs around a subject their limited intellect won’t allow them to comprehend.
Trynos We got an edge lord over here.
Trynos dumbass use common sense🙁
I believe in Evolution and Reincarnation because I had a dream of Nirvana where souls were in a aura bubble resting peacefully because they have reached the state of enlightenment. During that time I was a Christian but left Christianity because I rather believe in that than live a life of fear because of hell and internal torment after death.
@Bre D In my experience I grew up Christian and in some ways I still consider myself a Christian but I'm questioning. I'm gay and have tried to change that and just can't. The bible doesn't speak well of that although there is a lot of debate and ways to interpret it according to some. So I fear going to hell if I ever fall in love with a man and want a romantic relationship with one....some things in Christianity don't make sense to me. Like can you lose your salvation? It honestly depends on who you ask cause soo many Christians have different beliefs on it. Why would a gay man or women who marries the same sex and claims to be saved go to hell while a straight married Christian who also "sins" while saved is exempt from hell? I feel like many misinterpret what the bible is saying and use fear too often.
@@Daniel-dl6cu I get that but you can't change who you are. Doesn't the bible say, that God loves all his children? So he should all people. They does include gay people
@@kateburke8813 Agreed.... Yet so many don't think that way sadly
@@Daniel-dl6cu well you know what... Forget what they say, you do you. Never live your life concerned with what people think of you. You are no different than a straight person.
Same I been raised a Muslim but all I’ve heard is if you don’t do this hell is waiting for you, if you don’t do that you’ll burn for entirety if anything it pushed me away tbh. Why live my life scared of going to hell
I believe that we all are energy and our world isn't the "real" world. We are just visiting here and after death we go back where we belong.
lezwitch
Or maybe go to a new world........
I don’t know, but this sounds interesting.
You are very close to what we Muslims believe, the only difference is that even this world is real , also like you said, we will be back to where we belongs to
You don't go "back" to where you belong, you go to where you deserved according to your accumulated karma.
@Tin Man yeah
Well thats dumb. That's literally the opposite of what she's telling us about!
I am not Buddhist but I find the teaching of the Buddha exceptionally appealing. I especially like the emphasis on finding, the middle path. I have had several powerful past life experiences. Perhaps the most vivid of these occurred during a Reiki session.
In that instance I experienced a period before my birth, and then the birth itself. The intensity of the experience was such that I have no doubt that what occurred was the memory or a real event. The birth process was exceptionally difficult and painful and I was badly injured as a result.
Those injuries were retained in my body as muscle memories and have surfaced in various physical problems over the years. These were unexplained until such after undergoing the rebirth. After undergoing that experience the cause of those physical issues suddenly became absolutely clear.
I've had several other spontaneous past life regressions, triggered by seeing certain objects or having a specific highly emotional interaction. As a result I am entirely sure that our soul is reborn through more than one lifetime.
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Reincarnation means there is a soul that goes out of your body and enters another body. That is a very popular, very wrong notion of continuation in Buddhism. If you think that there is a soul, a self, that inhabits a body, and that goes out when the body disintegrates and takes another form, that is not Buddhism.
When you look into a person, you see five skandhas, or elements: form, feelings, perceptions, mental formations, and consciousness. There is no soul, no self, outside of these five, so when the five elements go to dissolution, the karma, the actions, that you have performed in your lifetime is your continuation. What you have done and thought is still there as energy. You don’t need a soul, or a self, in order to continue.
It’s like a cloud. Even when the cloud is not there, it continues always as snow or rain. The cloud does not need to have a soul in order to continue. There’s no beginning and no end. You don’t need to wait until the total dissolution of this body to continue-you continue in every moment. Suppose I transmit my energy to hundreds of people; then they continue me. If you look at them and you see me, well, you have seen me. If you think that I am only this [points to himself], then you have not seen me. But when you see me in my speech and my actions, you see that they continue me. When you look at my disciples, my students, my books, and my friends, you see my continuation. I will never die. There is a dissolution of this body, but that does not mean my death. I continue, always.
That is true of all of us. You are more than just this body because the five skandhas are always producing energy. That is called karma or action. But there is no actor-you don’t need an actor. Action is good enough. This can be understood in terms of quantum physics. Mass and energy, and force and matter-they are not two separate things. They are the same.
-Thich Nhat Hanh
I also think of the soul as energy because obviously the essence of life is not confined to a singular aspect of being. Energy can take any form, it is not limited by what we might imagine.
However I do also consider the self, as a consttuct within this idea, but self is not singular but collective, because all beings are joined as part of the same energy. Because the world is dualistic in nature, we have the illusion of separatness.
I can't comment further on how my view may differ from the Buddhist view, because as I stated in my previous comment, I am not Buddhist.
However when I refer to soul, I imagine a drop of water. While it is a drop it can be identified as being singlar only because it is separated from other water.
However, the drop is still water and so is never really separated from its essential nature. If dropped back into the ocean it becomes indistingusiable from this larger body.
If the water brought with it something which does is not water, this something then joins in the water as a new experience. So I think it is with the soul. When we as individuals return universal energy from which we spang, we take with us the experiences of what we might call us. Such experiences are both singular within the confines of being unique to the experience we called ours, and also part of the collective energy which is common to all life.
Marvin Double amen
your channel is amazing! thanks for everything you've thought me and helped me change my life :)
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The only aggregate in Buddhism that may be considered to be continued after death is consciousness. But consciousness is also changing moment to moment. Consciousness builds upon the former moment, but it isn’t the same. So unfortunately I think there is little science can do to track it. However, science can certainly add weight to the value and benefit of practicing meditation. And the findings in quantum physics are said to be very supportive of what the Buddha described as ultimate reality.
Mindah-Lee Kumar (The Enthusiastic Buddhist) Science doesn’t have the answers to everything, and everything they can’t find an answer for they’ll say it’s just the brain playing tricks.Sighs
My friend died of colon cancer in August 2020 I have been very upset about this and just felt a little down . But one day I was watering my garden and I noticed that my my water garden there was a lotus flower that had blossomed there.At first I thought wow that’s so nice I only got three flowers earlier this year , now here is this nice gift.Then I started thinking that this was very unusual for it to blossom this time of the year. It’s season for flowering was two months passed.It has never produced flowers this time of the year never in 2o years
I think it was a sign from my friend telling me that everything was ok and all is well, don’t feel bad. At least that was one way of bringing some happiness to the sadness that I had been experiencing. I think in the next life I would like to be a flower so that it may possibly comfort people who are dealing with sadness .
im scared of recarnation it makes me cry and get anxiety like think about it you forget everything and u could be abused in your next life😭
Gianna Tehehehehe ikr!
Many people get dreams and young children even remember past lives. It's scary to think you could get abused, but don't stress about dying. We all die someday, right? Just live your life and enjoy it, don't think about death.
Simulation! I want you guys to be aware of the most important remote viewing project EVER! Brett Sinclair and Technical intuition did a remote viewing project called "Moksha-Soul-trap" and it confirms almost into smallest detail what Wes Penre and Robert Stanley writes about! A summary below:
The viewers' description of the target location (Earth): an "innocent planet" that has had a barrier or gird around it that traps people and objects; a deliberate function that acts like a cage; a form of perverted injustice occurring; harrowing, bone-chilling; refugee camp; magnetic force that stirs and agitates; a net that's been spun, that catches and releases; massive grid around the planet; souls are drained at the expense of energising something else, clockwork nature over long expanse of time
Very high-tech shield around planet, so high-tech it's almost like "magic"
Magnetic vise, squeezes tightly around the Earth
People are lost, they don't understand what's happening
Souls are being "bent back" towards the Planet (reincarnation grid?)
What happens to the Soul? The mind and body is splayed and fractured each time it's pulled back into the reincarnation grid; something is being extracted and taken from them without their conscious awareness to power something else; Brett uses the analogy of extracting honey from the bees.
Souls are being fed on by external parasitic force
Some warped, sadistic and twisted force is behind this process
How did this begin? Planet was viewed with extreme envy by external force, at that time there was no reincarnation grid; massive war when Planet was invaded and those who were protecting the Planet lost; Earth was "given up" in an armistice.
How to achieve Moksha? Brett describes the release of the Soul from the body as cosmic particles being expelled from the centre of the nervous system, and technically has the freedom to go anywhere instead of being trapped in this hostage situation; however, this is dependent on the angle from which the Soul exits the body, a 45-degree angle was mentioned; if this is attained, there is a group of Beings that will help Soul escape, it's like they are the safety rope; Brett feels that this group is connected to the one that was formerly protecting the Planet; fear also prevents most from escaping; achieving Moksha is analogous to having all the vise-grips and cables being ripped out of the head and finally being liberated.
Why was the system created? This control system is just a small component of a larger system; the controllers are like demons; the alchemical process of the mayhem and negativity on the Planet's surface feeds the controllers; some of these energies or Soul aspects are extracted and shipped off somewhere else; "enslaved", bundled up like twigs for kindling; massive amount of injustice; system was created to provide fuel and energy for other systems and conquest (sort of like to feed the expanding "empire"); the energy empowers the massive system.
Who is responsible? A council of organic entities that exist in a sort of timeless "bubbles" of void zones from where they exert their influence on other timelines, essentially immortal; they have set themselves up as gods and view themselves as such, believing in having "authority" to control; they are very evil, service-to-self; eyes are "blazing white"; when the viewers remote-viewed these beings, they are aware of being viewed but they are dismissive of the viewers, it is of no relevance to them; they are bent on conquest and perpetuating a system of control.
Use that as a motivation to get off the rebirth/reincarnation wheel...
Callum Smith just one question u okay bro?
Thanks for your activity. Nice way of telling the fact, very good. All composite things arise, breaks, and occurs again - on and on, but the mind is timeless, unchanging, shiny ready open, joyous and loving.
Hi! I just found your videos and I love them. Thanks for making them. I'm still seeking and trying to figure out my path but reincarnation is the one thing I know for certain. I have many vivid memories of past lives. The life that I have the most and clearest memories of is from Ancient Rome in the first century BCE. I was a mid level senator, so I wasn't particularly powerful or influential myself. However, I was a close friend and follower of Gaius Julius Caesar. I have memories of us growing up together. I remember serving under him in his legions in Gaul. I have a particularly vivid memory of the two of us strolling through the Forum one day in the bright sunlight, our heads inclined close to each other deep in conversation. I don't recall the exact words but everything else is quite clear. And I remember my deep sorrow and anger upon learning of his betrayal and murder. I have no doubt that these are real memories. I also have had other memories where is was a young girl in medieval India, scared because I was being forced into a marriage to someone I didn't like. So, I have an unshakable belief in reincarnation. Just wanted to share that. Thanks again for all you do.
-Joe
One of the ultimate of the mysteries.As someone who follows the Buddhist teachings, I have decided that only personal experience can provide the answer,so do not spend time in this area.Mindah,I had to play this video three times to absorb it as you spoke at rocket-type speed.
***** That's OK.It proves your expertise.My problem is taking a few notes from your didoes. The two anatta videos were full of very good stuff.
That's lovely to hear. I'm glad you're open minded to it and you've given your daughter the opportunity to express herself. I have no doubt that our past karma brings up back together again and again.
This idea is very intriguing to me.. when i was a kid i kept asking myself what am i in my past life or who am i in my past life,even though i don't know the concept of reincarnation during those time.. and i was born into a christian family.. during my childhood i always cry, it's like i don't belong to the family i was born into.. and i always dream about a family i was once into.. then they started to fade.. until i dream of them no more.. it's like missing someone you don't know..
I would like to begin by saying I am thankful to Mindah-Lee Kumar for being such a good teacher. I love her videos and website and have been watching and reading almost every night for a month now, and I am beginning to see the improvements in my thoughts by practicing the methods she has laid out. Thanks Mindah! One of the things I took away from these videos is the importance of questioning (because obviously the Buddha was very proficient at questioning). So here is my take on the meaning of reincarnation. I would like it to be questioned by all of you.
You are part of the universe experiencing itself. In this perspective we are each other, because I am part of the universe experiencing itself as well. When I die, you may still live. In this manner I still live through you as part of the universe.
You are the shapes resulting from complex entanglements of matter and energy. One such shape is consciousness capable of self-aware experience. Consciousness capable of illusion.
Does the lack of experiencing, constitute an experience if there is nothing to do the experiencing? When I die there will be no functioning brain in my body to sense the lack of there being any sensations, or any thoughts. The illusion of being, can only be sustained inside of a container similar to that of any sentient being capable of sensation. New brains (or structures capable of organizing perceptions) are growing all the time in the universe.
Therefore what transfers at the moment of death is only the illusion which never existed in the first place (there is no self); so "Transfers" is really not the right word.
Instead, let us say: "the phenomena of experiencing" arises in the place it is most likely to arise in: sentient beings possessing structures capable of sensation like brains!
It seems kinda self-evident when it is thought about. Thanks
Kyle H
Then how could the memory of one person, which is present in the complex structures of that person ever carry over to another person? Even in a collective consciousness view I would assume the memory to be separated.
simply mind blowing! i feel like my life purpose is to free myself of the samsara.there is a strong urge inside of me.
+Faiza Nawaz same. Just believe you are already there and it will happen
are u muslim?
You're right. I like when I hear that people haven't discounted rebirth entirely but have 'put it on the shelf' to look at another time. I think being willing to admit that we don't know it all is a sign of humility. :)
@HuntiX rebirth have nothing to do with whether there are ghosts or not. Research on Thai singer Langgalamu, she is a good evidence of a REBIRTH.
@Ivor how do ghosts debunk rebirth ? If you think soul is eternal, what happen to it when the person dies ?
@Ivor According to Buddhism, hungry ghosts are beings too, those people are are too greedy and bad can be reborn as hungry ghosts. Buddhism don't believe in eternal soul like you described, I wonder where you learn it from.
I would say, Mindah-Lee, there is a sense in which rebirth is needed - it is Baptism, as seen in John 3:1-10:
"Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews. He came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God; for no one can do these signs that you do apart from the presence of God.” Jesus answered him, “Very truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can anyone be born after having grown old? Can one enter a second time into the mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Very truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit. What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not be astonished that I said to you, ‘You must be born from above.’ The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can these things be?” Jesus answered him, “Are you a teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand these things?"
This is an EXCELLENT video.
I am a licensed Buddhist spiritual doctor. Am very glad I found this.
In the Buddhist teaching, Transmigration, Karma, Ethics, and personal intention are very strongly related.
Buddhist theory and practice are founded on The Four Noble Truths, The Noble Eightfold Path, and The Twelve Links of Interdependent Origination.
Without those there is no actual Buddhist teaching or practice.
The Buddhist practice is based on the Noble Eightfold Path. One of the eight components or aspects is Ethics.
Most generally, ethics refers to the Ten Nonvirtues and their mirror opposites the Ten Virtues.
The Ten Virtues are standard in all expressions of Buddhist Great Way ( Mahayana ) practice.
Ethical transgressions or great ethical virtue can manifest across multiple lifetimes. In fact, this is held to be quite common.
To reject transmigration is to reject the basic Buddhist theory of karma.
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Yes, i do have a brief, very basic and very profound personal experience of "a previous lifetime." Just one. ( There are images of another Native American lifetime, but not so much a lived experience. )
It was as a poor itinerant Pure Land ( Amitabha )Buddhist priest at a small roadside shrine in the mountains of Japan.
There was a cold and powerful downpour of rain, and I was wearing a poor man's coat made of loose sheaves of grain.
I felt cold and hungry and miserable and lonely in the middle of nowhere, taking shelter in the shrine which was little more than a short wall and a small roof.
I was chanting to Amitabha Buddha. And I did not know what to do next.
This would probably have been somewhere near the year 900 CE in Japan. I can't fix a time or even a century, but that feels right. It was the medieval period.
This inner experience however is only a brief flash. It occurred only once and it continued for less than a minute. In other words, it wasn't like a psychotic break.
It seems very possible that I have been a Mahayana guru for numerous lifetimes. I was able to quickly work thru a number of issues and establish profound connections to highest level Buddhist transmissions, and become a Buddhist guru, within just a few short years.
Then it took many years to become an effective teacher.
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My primary reference as a Buddhist guru is "Dakini Teachings" by Padmasambhava.
This is worth a bookshelf of other books.
I know the past life connection (of mine) to my wife and child in this life. We are connected by unfinished karmic (unfulfilled) business.
Knowledgeable, and an excellent, attractive teacher to boot! Very good particularly for those considering adoption of Buddhism. 👍👍
By studying enlightenment. My last life was in World war 1 where I died and I somewhat experience past life trauma from it.
I was an atheist most of my life but I have always been fascinated with Buddhism and have recently read the Tibetan book of the dead and compared what I read to a dmt experience I had and it's changed my views dramatically.
I love you and I love your videos! Thank you so much for taking the time and effort to share the wisdom! I truly appreciate it. Thank you!
Thanks. :)
Looking at Google, it seems Dr. Jim Tucker was Dr. Ian Stevenson's successor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, which explains why their research is the same.
I think I found Dr Brian Weiss's work the most convincing for me, even though it was perhaps lacking in scientific evidence. But I understand what you mean by needing your own personal experience to validate the possibility. I think many people probably feel this way too.
Woah Stevenson is my last name
When my youngest daughter learned how to talk with sentences one of the first things she asked me is: Where is my real Mommy... She is a Mother herself now, but I often remember that question.
Roxanne Nelson Don't Think anything bad if i say... We all have met. in Samsara, somewhere. Being a relative, a close friend, mom, dad, employer, employee... it goes on and on. Thats probably why there shouldn't be any hate in this earth. i think this is another reason to practice Metta Meditation (:
I agree with you!
Roxanne Nelson
I found your presentation was pretty good. Currently, I am writing a book based on my past life memories. I use your youtube sies as some of my references for the book. Through past life therapies, I remembered my 13 past lives and also see one future life in the 25th century. The oldest past life that I remembered is the one of the Ancient Atlantis.
According to the Mahayana Buddhist schools, memory is imprinted on the store consciousness, which is one of the eight consciousnesses that we all have (the others being eye consciousness, nose consciousness, etc). I would love to see it measured and verified one day, though I have no idea just how they might do it. The Dalai Lama is always pushing for scientific studies of Buddhist theories, maybe they will discover a way. :)
Skeptics are not trying to attack people's beliefs. We are trying to figure out what is really true, not just what we want to believe. The problem a lot of people have is being close minded that their own beliefs are wrong. To be truly open minded is to accept that a proposition you want to embrace is false.
Very well said. However, some skeptics like some religious zealots most defiantly have an agenda and are not at all open minded.
Buddhism is a beautiful religion, which I am currently learning about and trying to practice. However, I can’t come to terms with the idea of previous lives. If I personally had a past life experience, I would not take that as any kind of proof, even if it matched with real life conditions. Self deception are coincidence is a far more plausible explanation. Human experiences are easily deceived and fooled. All of our senses are very imperfect and the human mind easily falls into deception and illusion.
Sorry if this sounds a bit harsh. Just sharing how I feel on the topic. But regards to Buddhism overall as a life philosophy and guideline, I have a deep respect and reverence for it. I can truest improve your life as a person of moral and mortal consciousness 🧘🏼♂️
Victor Rikowski is it not your mind allowing that deception to exist? Quit coming at it so ferociously with a knife. Your literally asking for someone to pickpocket your watch and sell it back to you, when you ask other people if your beliefs are real. Who is really the judge of who’s mentally Ill? No one. Because its a man made illusion. Leading your mind into being deceived also, that using more of your brain is looked at as loopy! And that’s exactly how you won’t see it trying to come at it with a knife like that
The show must go on!
Iam a buddhist. I can solve any doubt what u have in your mind up to some extent from my knowledge. If u like just ask me the questions. I would like to help you out.
Chandika Prashan Thanks for the offer. Sorry for my previous post, which was maybe too harsh put.
I grew up in a non-religious family. My partner grew up muslim, but now is ex-muslim. I spent about a year previously looking into Buddhism. It is, by some distance, the religion I admire the most, but perhaps it’s not my cup of tea. I have many hobbies that I enjoy. No one should have to do something if they don’t want to.
When I was emotionally unstable, I found meditation very helpful, but now that my situation in life is more happy, I feel it’s not needed anymore. We all have different journeys in life. Much love for you ❤️
Callum Smith Depends what you mean by misanthrope?? Bit confused by that.
Having low expectations and outlooks on humanity is, in my view, just an emotion. Sometimes I look at the world and have hope and love for humans. Sometimes I struggle to say a single positive thing about us. It depends how I’m feeling.
Like sadness and happiness, it’s a temporary feeling. Bit difficult to label any group of people as this or that thing.
My son just turned 13. Several years ago he told me that he had experienced dreams beginning at age 2-3 of dying in the World Trade Center on 9/11. He described being in the WTC, the fire and smoke, and jumping from the building. I was surprised, because he described the events quite accurately, and I knew that he had never seen any news or videos about 9/11, or previously discussed it with anyone. To my knowledge he knew nothing of the events of that day. I inquired and he stated that this was the case. That his dreams started at age 2-3 and he had never heard about 9/11 until a number of years later. This all seemed to be uncanny, because he was conceived in Oct., 2001.
You're welcome. He's fine thanks.
***** I have read lot of scriptures and religious books such as devi bagavatham,quran,ramayana,mahabharatha.Yet i didnt understand the true nature of life.since my childhood,i heard about gotama buddha.now,i read his complete life and all his jatakas and dhammas.Now,i am completely satisfied with the real truth of life.I have a pdf copy of dhammapada.please share dhammapada to everyone.there are billions of people in this world who were not aware of the meaning of why they are living?
+Karthik Ramamoorthy i agree with u karthik.buddha taught the true path to liberation.
+Karthik Ramamoorthy The reason why you did not understand ancient Hindu texts is that they where written for a different mindset. Buddha refined them to make them easy to understand........He was a Hindu originally
is it ok if u can send a copy to me.. i want to read ..
I strongly believe in the continuation of life from birth to death to nirvana and rebirth. Having died twice, been in a COMA for over 7 weeks gave me special insight into past lives, spirits and the whole 10 levels of life. Reincarnation just makes sense.
Dear Minda. Wow, Very interesting! Q: Of all the Buddhist traditions which is the name of the ORIGINAL teachings of Siddhartha Gautama?? (Theravada, Mahayana, Zen, etc, etc). I'd really appreciate an answer from you. Thank you.
Theravada
Everyone we meet in our present life is because of some connection with them from our past lives. Nothing in this present life is co-incidence. If we have taken something from someone, we have to return to them and they will meet us and go once the give and take is over. I feel everyone should return the favour so that the circle of life is complete. Do good karma today for ur present and all future lives u will get.
I wish and we actually do remember everything from our past life's and current life we had. While after when we move on to the afterlife
No you can't since we age and we can't even remember everything in this life. The Buddha said everything is ever-changing and not Impermanent. This logic proved no soul.
Ive been searching for evidence of reincarnation because i get depressed about how if u die then do u just do nothing forever and ever, but if people remember past lives then i believe that we may get new lives!
I'm skeptical about reincarnation, yet I keep thinking about the concept. I'm contemplating going in for a past life regression hypnosis session. If I experience anything I interpret as proof, I'll become a believer.
If Buddhists claim that Buddha has remembered all his previous lifes, how far can that be ? How can we have a previous lifes before the Earth has existed ? Or how can be reincarnated after the earth will dissapear with the death of sun ?
Since the begin-less of time from my basic understanding. it's hard to comprehend becoz when scriptures are translated to english, it would lost a bit of its meaning...
Time is vast just like the universe, becoz of endless samsara, this is not the "only earth".
Past,present n future, there will be many many many "earths", till samsara cease.
Alan Tan Wei Quan I dont understand what you say. It sounds like you say a fairytale.
+rakuna üçyüzdört He's saying that we, for now, are bound to Earth, this Earth. but we are not alone, the universe is vast. when the Earth stops to exist we go to other earths and the cycle starts there again untill we reach enlightenment.
+umut barat buddha has told this is not the formest earth..we have face to thousands of world's ends..after earth is destroyed it begin to create again..there is not a end of this destrotng and recreating..
One can be born in different realms or physical places (eg. Earth) so it is possible and not all lives are of human existence
Informative & Interesting. Very Well Presented.
Your relatives story is interesting. I recall past lives for very long ago. From my perspective it is spiritually vital not only to realize we have lived before but to realize that it is vital to graduate from the wheel of reincarnation. I will share if you wish a video about how here- Reincarnation- Heather Reincarnation Talk Vardankar part 1 of 3
Like any force in the universe, I believe consciousness is a constant. Though our physical manifestations (within any type of life) are fleeting, the conscious whole, and biological proclivity (such as genetic predisposition) is what drives physical potential which makes up any given life and all life experience. That being said, death is material, whilst consciousness is as old as the universe itself.
I think some people miss the point on their comments, exposing a certain disagreement or addressing Mindah-Lee Kumar with a pretentious-aggressive tone. I have loved the video and the effort you have put on it; some people should develop tolerance and, if agreement is not experienced, at least try to hide one's disregard
You and Ajahn Brahm are my best teachers. Thank you for your wonderful videos and wisdom.
so not to frighten anyone, or make you think I'm this insane person speaking nonsense, I have kept a secret... The sun was glaring down, the smell of salt water in the air, I remember the awful heat, and then explosions of shells in the distance... I was a soldier in a blue uniform.... I was African American, now I already know this sounds like the movie from 1988 Glory, but I never watched that movie until the mid 1990s and the dreams I had frightened my mom and dad, I hated thunder, not because it was thunder but would twitch and I would cry and tell my mom and she has the recordings still, of me saying the men in grey are shooting at me.... Now alarmed by this my mom when I was 8 took me to myrtle beach SC and we took a two day trip from there to Charleston SC, this is before seeing Glory later, we go to Fort Sumter and when I get there I walk thru the entrance, on to the hill to the back facing the Atlantic and look straight over to where the light house is on Morris island and say that's fort Wagner and my mom about collapsed horrified, the state park ranger walked over and asked what was the matter, and she said ask him what he just said and I said Fort Wagner and he turned blank, and stuttered a little and said well well yes son that is where fort Wagner once stood and he had me point to it, he said there is no way possible for you to know that, the fort was a earth works fort, it eroded decades ago.... He said I am not even sure how you know that, but yes, yes it is..... He looked at me kind of wild... I remember up to where I believe was my last moments, I was running and a shock hit me from the side and threw me and that is the end of it.... For some reason at 30, I am attracted to that place still, most of the dreams stopped as a child and when seeing glory for the first time, I replayed it at home 9 to 10 times and just cried..... I am not sure, but that is my story.... Its ok if you think I am a fake or a phony and I've never in my life shared this with a soul, but this brought it back for me and just trying to find answers on why I'm remembering this battle like I was there.....
+Antihippie24
Yep. That's real.
Do you think you where reborn then?..
Idk
Sakyamuni Buddha has a large teaching on his "past lives".
Buddhist teachers speak of TRANSMIGRATION, which is different from reincarnation.
In Buddhist teaching a person can thru their actions propel themselves into a higher realm or a lower realm, such as one of the god realms, or the animal realm.
And a being in an animal realm or god realm can later transmigrate into the human realm.
For more on this one can study the Bardo teachings, specifically those of Guru Padmasambhava.
The mantra OM MANI PADMA HUM of the Great Being Avalaokitesvara is for purifying the causes of rebirth in each of the "Six Realms", including the God Realm and the Animal Realm.
The Dalai Lama is known as the Fourteenth Dalai Lama because he is held to be the fourteenth remanifestation of a human teaching lineage, in other words, this is his fourteenth human lifetime as a Buddhist teacher.
Many of my Buddhist teachers are held to be remanifestations of teaching lineages, such as His Holiness Karmapa ( Urgyen Trinley Dorje ), Very Venerable Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, HH Tai Situpa, HE Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche, Dzogchen Rinpoche and so forth.
One of my teachers I have seen in two lifetimes. I received the comprehensive transmissions of Shangpa lineage holder HE Kalu Rinpoche in the 1980, and some years back received a transmission from his reincarnation Yangsi Kalu Rinpoche in Canada.
The term "yangsi" means rebirth.
I received numerous major transmissions from the Dudjom Revealed Treasure ( Dudjom Tersar ) of HH Dudjom Rinpoche.
His passed away a generation ago and his reincarnation has begun giving major transmissions.
I strongly support this teacher, even tho I have not seen him.
There is also HH Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, from whom I received essential Nyingma transmissions and one-to-one Dzogchen transmission in eastern France back in 1990.
The reincarnation of HH Dilgo Khyentse is presently teaching and has visited North America.
The two great masters Kalu Rinpoche and Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche are of enormous importance to me and to my work as a tantric Buddhist spiritual doctor.
Both these teachers were themselves reincarnations of great Nonsectarian ( Rime' ) masters who helped revitalize Buddhism in Tibet and preserve many major transmission lineages.
HH Dilgo Khyentse was the reincarnation of Nonsectarian guru Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, and Kalu Rinpoche was the reincarnation of Nonsectarian guru Jamgon
Kongtrul Lodro Thaye.
I could give many more examples of major reincarnate Buddhist teaching lineages. They are not well known, but they are very important ( and important to me as being my teachers ).
Some of these important but relatively unknown reincarnate masters are HH Chetsang Tulku Rinpoche and HE Garchen Rinpoche, both of the Drikung Kagyu order.
As for myself, I have no internal definite "experience" of reincarnation as a Buddhist guru or practitioner in any lineage, or a specific sense of a prior life as a Tibetan or Chinese or other Buddhist culture.
But I do recommend books by some of these Buddhist masters, including the following:
"How To Practice" by the Dalai Lama;
"The Dharma That Illuminates" by Kalu Rinpoche;
"Heart Treasure Of the Enlightened Ones" by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.
I also recommend all the teachings of HE Great Abbot ( Khenchen ) Thrangu Rinpoche.
These are all Great Way / Mahayana Buddhist teachings. Mahayana is my primary focus for general teaching work.
My primary teaching manual, which is a profound comprehensive teaching on Buddhadharma, is
"Dakini Teachings" by Padmasambhava.
This one book is worth a whole bookshelf of other books.
"Dakini Teachings" is very clear and rigorous and entirely classical, but most people ( meaning muggles ) will find it challenging or even very difficult.
It's one of the best books, but typically best approached after one or two other books.
I have begun the major work of teaching authentic Buddhadharma on Google+.
Here is my basic introductory article:
From my Google+ home page. Under “About”, in the Links section:
Buddhist Resources / Holy Day of "Buddha's Descent from Heaven" (New York City)
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This is the context for approaching the Buddhist teaching.
This is written in partial fulfillment of my responsibilities as guru.
May All Beings Benefit! Sarva mangalam!
All Our Relations.
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Buddhist spiritual doctor and pipe carrier of the Lakota Sioux
this is called a mental illness. people like you need help, or just stop smoking weed
It’s been a while since I read his books, but perhaps it was because the recollections/regressions were told by adults and some were verified (to a certain extent).
Your videos about Buddhism are very interesting, and I am learning a lot from you. While I am open to the concept of re-incarnation and had some experiences from a past life myself, there are some questions that I have, and haven't found an answer for.
For instance, time to us is experienced as moving in one direction: forward. But what if that is only so because we perceive it that way in our system of reality, and it could be that time is actually simultaneous when we are out of our physical bodies, In which case we might be living many lives at the same time.
On a more pragmatic level: I know it is believed that we all live lives as other sentient beings, so is there a a natural progression of what type of being we re-incarnate to? It would be hard for me to believe that there is some kind of hierarchy of creaturehoods we live through. We must have been frogs, or insects, or any other animal in previous lives.What makes us think we're going to be coming back to an already familiar type of existence, something similar to what we live now?
And finally: it seems that in the Tibetan Buddhist world, it is most often young boys who are found to be re-incarnations of male Wise Ones who have recently died. Why is it that we aren't seeing more women who could have been wise men in previous incarnations. And vice versa.
i was once talking to a friend who is a psychotherapist who has sent patients to specialists who do past life regressions. he asked me what was my earliest memory. i sat and thought for a moment and then it came to me. i was in a big room , in a baby bed, and a bunch of other babies, all screeching . i was annoyed. there was a wide plate glass window and i could recall the color of the walls and the curtains. and i saw adults standing outside looking in at us. and i thought; "well, here we go again." i knew exactly where i was and what was going on. that sort of amazed him. i never have done a past life regression but it would be interesting to give it a shot. i thought about it and had to laugh. "again"? just how times have i been here already??? people always have called others "old souls". maybe for good reasons.
Awesome! I had visions of some of my past lives and this is very cool!
I haven't died yet so I haven't reincarnated yet. Plus if you see this then what was your past life like?
Nice video, im able to trace 2 past lives. One im an archer in a fight defending a castle. The other im my grandfather and can see my mom when she was very little. He past away before i was born by 3 months. These visions come thru dreams and while i meditate??? Ive been having dreams like this as since i was very young (like 6 to 7 years old. Love your channel.
I have had a recurring dream on and off since I was around 9 of a bridge collapsing during a festival in china with a young man and woman with 2 kids I looked up incidents like this happened long long ago and I got Extreamly depressed I believe in reincarnation since that day
This is a nice video, thank you. I have a few challenges though. I question whether reincarnation is really a valid alternative after-life belief. It offers immortality of a sort, but not personal. If I lose my personhood by reincarnating, how can I be held karmically responsible for my past life choices/actions/beliefs? In addition, it seems as though karma can be used to explain anything but then only after the fact. Also, if what I need to learn to reach enlightenment is clear, why so many lifetimes to reach it? And if what I need to know is not clear, it doesn’t seem fair to have to suffer through so many lifetimes.
But my biggest challenge of all is the fact that with an infinite amount of lives to achieve the goal of enlightenment, a person would have already met the goal. After all, there cannot be a unique experience for something unconsciously eternal. Reincarnation just seems so unreasonable and illogical.
Great video. Supports my views in life
My earliest memory in life or my first every memory is white noise and pretty much watching my childhood home be built in fast-forward then waking up recalling my current name and just understanding the situation i'm in and that memory of white noise has been with me since the literal day one of my life
Hi, this fakhria from Australia and I am really curious about the concept of anatta and rebirth. I would like to get some source.
if its possible. lots of thanks for providing such an informative video.
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I'm atheist and originally raised as Christian and I get reborn as myself over and over again. It's in the same time period and same family. It's driving me crazy because no one in my family seems to have this happening to them. I can remember who I was and places I use to work at and everything. I can even remember friends I have yet I to meet. Now I know this isn't convincing to most atheists at a first read. Really remembering your future is like looking at your past. Yes you can make different choices. If you ask me how it's possible it's because of multiple dimensions. There are other I guess you 's out there as well. Im an atheist who believes in reincarnation though and claim to have experienced it. Deja vu is you remembering, hence it's happened before.
I recommend the book "Journey of Souls" by Dr Michael Newton
This was the documentary that first convinced me of life after death .I particularly like the last in the trilogy (Gwen McDonald ) mind blowing stuff .
We now more about the brain, mind and memory than ever before. Unfortunately, the knowledge available to society today makes little difference when people choose to believe something because they simply feel they want to believe that thing.
I feel that Samsara refers to something more mundane but equally powerful. that the karma we generate in our life, our good intentions and compassionate acts of virtue echo from us and into the lives of others, particularly the younger generations who are more receptive to our influence. When our actions are mindful, compassionate, and virtuous then the next generation grows in like.
I study and practice Buddhism not so much to relieve myself from suffering but in hopes that the future generation will not suffer as we have. That anger, jealousy, and hatred are aberrations and not the norm because in my own subtle way I added to the positive karma of all sentient beings.
I’ve been enjoying your videos. Do you have a reading list on the site that includes material you have referenced? That would be very helpful. Thanks you.
Thank you, very insightful :)
When I visited Mexico I experienced a calm when I saw the desert. What could this mean?
Stephan Coertzen I had the same feeling when I was in Portugal staring at the Atlantic Ocean during sunset. I’m Mexican, btw, also think deserts calm my nerves.
It mostly happens to me when i visit some temples.
to me its lakes
Snow
Stephan Coertzen for me it’s New York in the 80s
Absolutely the most concise and best video I’ve seen on reincarnation. Thank you! I’ve been slightly obsessed with it, the subject, as I see so much great injustice in the world, especially toward people of color, and, reincarnation is the only thing that makes sense, and gives me solace
see i believe god gives you a choice to reincarnate, live in haven or go to a fantasy world or something
I'd choose to live on this planet once more
@@sandsgrainofsand5320 Me too, I would want to see how this world will change in all the years...
Why would God want you to live in Haven Connecticut?
Or one of these Haven's
Haven, Kansas, a city
Haven, New York, a hamlet
Haven, Washington, a ghost town
Haven, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
Haven Township, Sherburne County, Minnesota
Just kidding, playing with the typo! LOL!
Since I was a little child until this very day I close my eyes, see a dark whirling movement. Then in the middle for only a few seconds appears blue sky seen from looking through a tube and seeing what I now believe it is a chain being swung very very fast. As I child I thought it was a ferries wheel I can't explain it other that some kind of view from a past life.
I've done my research, and not only do we get to reincarnate, but we get to choose what we reincarnate into. Now, I believe in reincarnation and I just just figured it out now, but you can choose if you want to reincarnate or not, and if you choose not to reincarnate then you can't change your mind... Although you can choose to reincarnate which I'm doing which let's you reincarnate infinite times. And I don't mean choose to reincarnate and you keep reincarnating forever, I'm saying that you can keep choosing to reincarnate and keep reincarnating forever. I'm trying to persuade you guys to keep reincarnating forever because you can learn lessons, become your greatest self and live you best live(s). I'm trying to persuade you guys because I don't want you to choose not to reincarnate and regret it. But if you really don't want to reincarnate then do what you wish. But if you don't really care if you reincarnate or not then I'm telling you to reincarnate so that you can enjoy yourselves and be happy.
Hi Min
My understanding of the Alaya consciousness (the continuous flowing stream of karmic energy) is another word for soul. It transmigrates into appropriate body's that it is compatible with. One definition of Reincarnation means to be born into flesh. At this moment, I have an 80 kilogram body that is connected to and with an individual aspect of the Alaya consciousness that is referred to as "I" "individual" etc., The empirical self analogy is compatible with Buddhism and Vedanta as I currently understand it.
when you die, does your soul immediately go into another body?
@Jah Mar but Bible & abrahmic religion never talk about birth & rebirth i guess..
Only indian origin religions talks this... Hinduism,bhuddism,shikhism & jainsim
@Jah Mar that's great🤘
@Jah Mar ok..i appreciate ur belifs....btw as i'm hindu indian...so i read 'Bhagvat gita'...in which god talk about birth & rebirth...based on your karma's....& You can achieve God by self realization...that is through enlightenment( by yogic practice-meditation)...so you can break this cycle of birth & rebirth....
& I choose to believe this.
@Jah Mar its because our soul's ultimate goal is to achieve moksha(liberation)..that is higher self...into god heaven...to free ourselves from this stupid cycle...we are bound to this material world satisfaction...& Always seek for happiness...
This earthly lives are full of misery , difficulties , wretchedness , tyranny, poverty , exploitation ,tortures in general . In general every person wants to exploit the other person since Mahatma Gandhis are not many or rather have gone extinct The moments of peace and happiness outnumber moments of unhappiness . So what is the point in coming back to earth again and again ??? To suffer these miseries and unhappiness , treachery ??? Best option to rest our Souls in Spirit World permanently. But that doesnot happen so easily when we hold negative karmik bank ledger balances .its based on our good karma.
So we should attain moksha(free from cycle)...for ultimate satisfaction & happiness💓
@Jah Mar also this video will make sense
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Can someone guide how long it takes to be reborn after death.my teen daughter 15 yrs old died last oct due to misc.a lovely child full of enthusiasm, hardworking,a champion at badminton guitar skating,etc, wanted by all her friends, always helpful.l miss her
I’m commenting out of order of enjoying your videos, but on the subject of destroying your diaries, wouldn’t it also mean the same thing to destroy photographs from the past?! TY for sharing.
Did you know that Jesus taught this as well but it is not in the cannon. In the book The Essene Humane Gospel of Jesus, he taught this same teaching. Intact it is recorded that he went to India and taught there the principles of humane love for all God's creation the animals as well, not to kill them and that you return to this world until perfected
+Israeli News Live Glad to see somebody knows the truth........It all goes back to India
So when Jesus talks about the resurrection (hundreds of times) ....who the hell are we after being reincarnated ?/lol
Israeli News Live jesus was a Buddhist monk.
I have read this as well that reincarnation was originally part of Christian teachings until the time of the Roman Emperor Constantine when he had whoever were considered the 'leaders' of Christianity at the time come to Rome to sort out exactly what it would or would not entail and reincarnation was one of a number of things to get written out of the Bible as we know it today.
It was concluded as fabrications by Dr Wallace (new testament scholar)
thank you for your videos. they are helping me.
I always dream of drowning and having knee injury. While trying my best to swim there's a man on the boat just looking at me not moving a muscle. I always cried and feel too much pain everytime I remember it. I feel that emotion in me and I just cried and I don't know why. This always bothers me.
Sister minah lee I am a Sri Lanken Ethnic Buddhists Can you Explain me what is twelve links (Pathithesamuppadaya)
I'm a believer in reincarnation but I am always open minded to all truth so as I considered the plausibility of reincarnation I thought about how it is possible to dream about our past live and discovered that not all dreams are memories of past lives due to the fact that people can dream of experiences past live events from 2 very close time period which doesn't make sense. For example, say you have a dream that you were living in another country in the present, you would know that that dream could not be you because you have not been in that country in that time period.
Mark Osborn Hey Mark, I believe so too. Our mind is powerful. if its trained well enough. We get the ability to find answers our self i'm sure (:
+AFC 3575 I don't fit into any box.
The problem with proving a supernatural claim is that if it can be proven, then it's not supernatural. Other than that, I love your videos, Mindah!
when i was like 4 or 3 i use to get flashes like i was in a car in Canada and i went over a bridge but i have never been to Canada and i use to get the flashes but since i got older i dont get it anymore so since then i think rebirth is possible like you die but reborn as someone else with new parents and dont remember your past but i got flashes like i could have seen what heppened to me
and im 13 now
As a boy of about five years, I had a day time vision if you will, I saw window in time and space open up in front of me one day and I saw a mountain valley from out of a window, Ever green trees bordered the far side of the tall grassy meadow where black and white cows grazed. In the room I was standing, was my mother, the same mother as now, She was seated on a chair mending clothes. As now when this window opened up. She had her hair rolled into a long braid around the back of her head. My mother never had hair that long and that time it was short. The window in time closed, and went to mother climbed up on the chair opposite the table where she was seated and looked at her and asked how come she didn't wear her hair in a braid around her head any more.? She peered over the top of her very thick glasses at me and asked, "When was this ?". I responded and said ,"When we lived in Prussia". She said you mean Russia, I said "No mom, Russia is a different country, we lived in Prussia. Her mouth dropped open. So I got down from off the chair and went out side to play. There is more to this story but you get the idea. Yes I do believe in reincarnation. It is not a joke. I believe we have to live as many lives as we need to learn what the human experience is about.
you are a beautiful human being! all my love to you. thank you for sharing this with us. =D
Dr. Brian Weiss is amazing! I was fortunate to get to experience watching him regress people & participate in a group regression. The poor man couldn’t even go to the restroom w/out being followed as if he were Jesus! Miracles Happen was the book last written w/his daughter before this event at Omega at Rhinebeck, NY! I really enjoyed it & got to talk w/his daughter & saw his wife. A great experience! Thank you!
I believe it...I’ve dreamt I have been killed as a toddler in WWII, as a little girl in the 1800’s dressed in red/white w/a matching hat...also killed by a man who was a farmer or cowboy, and once I dreamt I had a different face! When I was a young child, I was so terrified of the dark, I would barely ever sleep at night for fear I would be killed...later in this life my mother told me how my adopted brother would try to bounce me out of my carriage as a baby & later just before turning 13 he tried to kill me...he’s 11 yrs older. I thought my parents knew as an adult cousin was watching...I thought...surely she must’ve told them-nope! Dad passed before I found out either parent never knew about it.
OK I am definitely believing these people, these children talking about their past lives. But I’m confused because I have listened to people talk about their near death experience and that they went to hell and they all describe it to be the same, but I’ve also heard people talk about their near death experience of going to heaven and that they were greeted by family. So what is the absolute truth?
your teaching is so good. I just want to ask a question: Is moksa possible in Buddhism?
I do bekieve..my son recalled a past life brief story of him being on an island mention if a brown and white dog named Thalgi.. he kept sayung this when he was 2 half years old ..despite the fact we've never been to an island or had a dog till my son was 3 years old in this life
I saw my death of my previous life at least 200 times in my dreams between age 2 and 7. Can anyone help to find more.
no it cant be your previous life..only who has second sight can see the previous life..think your struggling with your own anxiousness..
Nixon Ranasinghe Your probably 12 or something
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You’re probably a 14 year old who’s cocky, and believes they’re always right.
I am skeptical to the idea of past lives, but my mom has a past life story. As a young woman my mom is with her mother and grandmother while driving around town she was able to give directions through out the town of course without never being their before. She thinks that she died as a young child in a sledding accident or something with snow. Has open my mind some but still find myself a skeptic but i dont find any hindrances in my lack of faith so keep meditating kids the benefits are beyond believing ima going to a better place.
Very interesting and well presented. I would also recommend "Old Souls" by Tom Shroder. The author followed Dr. Ian Stephenson, one of the first researchers to approach reincarnation from an evidence-based point of view, on his travels collecting accounts of past life experiences. The author is something of a skeptic but he's at a total loss to explain what's going on. As for myself, I'm kind of on the fence but reincarnation would explain a lot. Keep up the good work.
Thank you for your video. If one's actions and feelings can be attributed to their past lives, then how does it properly explain it? Karma explains everything in hindsight, but how does it explain future events in foresight?
It seems to me, and perhaps my understanding is limited, or even incorrect, but ideas and concepts having to do with life after death, reincarnation, and past lives, notions of cosmology, eschatology, and various realms are Hindu notions, and not necessarily Buddhist ones. I recall a story about the Buddha where he was asked about various Hindu gods and what we should think of them etc,... He advised that these gods should follow whatever version of the eightfold path is pertinent to them, and that they needed to seek enlightenment just as we do.
Pure recollection reflects back then images and forms.
Attach and stick not to mind made perceptions, see, know, known and let go. Awareness.
After reading some
Comments; “There are real people who have face & experienced these memories in their life so vividly ” “Everybody will not understand Buddhism, It is for the highly intellectual people” before anyone dash on my comment: Please read and understand the why Buddha born the way he is and to whome he taught, and his teachings.
We cannot say if past lives is true unless we experience it ourselves. However life offers an indirect experience in the sense that we are extremely attracted to some individuals and not others. We cannot always give a reason why we fall in love with some people or make friends. Another indicator is giftedness in a particular endeavor of life. You cannot explain how someone can play extraordinary music or play chess at a young age. Also one cannot explain why some people are born blind or die young. I know astrology so I know how karma is operating in this particular life to some extent. We carry the tendencies but not the actual experiences of previous lives.
When you lose the matter (the body) your lose emotion but maintain awareness concept and acknowledgement, proceeding you sprit will wait for you nerve, people mistake nerves as cell memory. You lose emotion but maintain emotional memories.You can't joke with a ghost.
Acknowledgement is call consciousness (Vijñāna)
Awareness is call mental action (saṅkhāra)
Concept is call conception (samjñā)
Emotion or reception (vedanā)
Matter is call form (rūpa)
you very talented and nice thank you
I am completely convinced I have live before with no doubt! I am fascinated with death, not in a morbid sense but in way that leads to another life or plane if you will. At times I am anxious and impatient for my death, but not to take my own life. For I am quite certain that is how I have perished in my past life and had to return to repeat the course, with some penalties in this life, if you will. Buying the stairway to heaven can actually be somewhat related to reincarnation, in the sense of learning, improving, helping others and to perform a task or service to erase a debt in the past to elevate your existence in a future life to come.
So when I die it is not over? You're saying I have to put up with this all over again and start from scratch?
Great video.
A question that i wrestle with is that Buddhism accepts reincarnation but rejects the existence of the soul. So what is it that is reincarnating according to Buddhism?
***** OK, thanks for your reply. looking forward to the video.