Rebirth
Rebirth is a subject that fascinates outsiders and Buddhists about Buddhism.
Reincarnation was also a fixture in Christianity until this doctrine was banned as "unacceptable" in the Council of Constantinople in 553. However, Christian doctrine says that Jesus Christ was resurrected from the dead.
First of all something very important at the beginning: Not all Buddhists believe in rebirth! Also in the teaching of the Indian prince there are different schools (similar to Christianity), which follow other views. For example, the "Mahayana" school (Japanese:Zen or Chinese: Chan) does not require a belief in reincarnation, while the "Theravada" school (and here especially the "Vajrayana" philosophy) holds partly opposite views.
Many spiritual paths have developed in Buddhism over the centuries, but rebirth is not a mandatory content of the Chan (Zen) teachings.
The "path of reality" is not about the path itself, but about where the path leads, namely to nirvana. The doctrine of rebirth indicates that those who could not reach nirvana in this life then have another opportunity in the next incarnation.
Personally, I not only believe in rebirth, I am convinced of it because I can remember my past lives (to some extent).
I believe that reincarnation is the transcendence of ego-identity towards realization, which proceeds over many lifetimes, as Buddha-nature is very difficult to find, overlaid by the debris of events.
We must understand that there is no place to hide, no place that can overcome impermanence. Only in us can we find the emptiness that corresponds to an incredible fullness.
Our thought palace lives in patterns, "good" or "bad", "right" or "wrong", "below" or "above", "black" or "white", every thought contains the opposite already at its origin, otherwise it could not arise at all. So also birth and death, which then finds its cycle in the rebirth, but in the Nirvana everything is extinguished, because the Nirvana is only a state of mind. Thus, even the awakened one who has entered nirvana can be reborn if he has not yet been granted the completion of all tasks.
In Nirvana everything is balanced, nothing is important, neither the birth nor the death, so that the new incarnation does not matter either, everything loses its value when time and space merge into one big context.
All people who have already lived and all those who will live, they are connected, in the now and in the here.
Can you remember your lives?
The path is the goal!
Purification comes through the cycle of rebirth
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero Exercise is one of the healthy habits that you forgive a certain stubbornness
Copyright: https://shaolin-rainer.de
(Please also download my app "Buddha-Blog English" from the Apple and Android stores)