I wasn’t sure about rebirth as I became more sceptical and questioning about everything. Gradually as I meditated more, I intuitively became very sure that rebirth is a fact of our existence. So from my own experience, I know that rebirth is a true phenomenon.
did you see a past life of yours? if you did how long did you meditate before you saw your past life? how many years or months had you meditated when you saw it? how many hours a day? i like to see it for myself
I believed in rebirth since I was about 12, but something that really made it clear for me was one day when I misspoke something - and in that moment knew that this is exactly how I used to speak in another life.
I'd like to know how far have you gone in term of studying Buddhism, and has your perception changed since last year. I have been a Buddhist for all my (current) life, and yes, there are still many aspects from many teachers which I still find hard to swallow. But as my most respected teacher, Ajahn Chah has stated, Buddhism is not about reading or listening, it's about practicing and see for yourself. So here I am still trying to practice and see for myself if this whole thing is real =)
@Medracin I like your take on pointing out one of the tenth things we shouldn't believe in. Apart from the effects of past karma that explain our present, I strongly believe that our present deeds affect our future. The present is what we can control. BTW, we can gain wisdom through: 1) listening to good exposition of dhamma or reading 2) thinking/ reasoning 3) developing insight mediation After more than 20 yrs of 1 & 2, I came to believe in rebirth by step 3 and then 1 and 2.
rakuna üçyüzdört Venerable ajan brahmali is 100% right because this is already proven by the scientiest the rebirth for instance please type (Scientific Evidence for Reincarnation by Dr Ian Stevenson) for evidence and please not to try to criticise to holy ajan brahmali.
i still really don't understand much about the areas about buddhism that require ''faith'' (rebirth, lifetimes, gods, heavens and hells. buddhism states its the most scietific of 'religions' but still find it hard to grasp these far-out aspects. i am starting to believe that meditation is a very powerful tool. i heard a talk where they tried to explain how with deep meditation you can go back futher than your earliest memory. so far you can go back previous lifetimes. mabe something to try..
Belief in rebirth is right understanding on the mundane level. However, it is not supramundane understanding for enlightenment. This the Buddha makes clear in the Maha-cattarisaka Sutta.
In the 'Khajjaniya Sutta' , the Buddha states a 'noble disciple', through recollecting their 'past dwellings' or 'attachments', dismantles and does not build up, scatters and does not amass, extinguishes and does not kindle. Yet his monk is doing the opposite. He is building up rather than dismantling, kindling rather than extinguishing, amassing rather than scattering.
Pesala A monk with right understanding about eternalism and annihilationism is Tejadhammo Bhikkhu. There is a lecture by Tejadhammo Bhikkhu on You Tube called the happiness of non-clinging. We can listen to his explanation of eternalism and annihilationism in part 2 of the talk.
Enchentez. I find your metaphor of the 'eternalist Dhamma Kindergarten' fitting. It is reminiscent of a simile the Buddha himself used in the Satta Sutta. The Satta Sutta is on the internet. With metta, BB
@kirk75248 He says many times that NOT believing in rebirth is characteristic of wrong view, alongside not believing in kamma. Skeptics rightfully demand to know how these things can be known to be true. It is definitely possible through direct meditative gnosis and cognition, although I don't know what someone could show you to prove it scientifically or empirically.
@Medracin You are not alone. I fully accept the 4 noble truths but this rebirth theory is difficult yto take. As you said, untill I see it to my self. So you are right to say that you are sticking to the kalama sutta as that is what I am doing with respect to this subject.
@Medracin It is real. You can experience this when you attain Jhana state (after your mind absorbs the highest level of concentration meditation). Rebirth supports the law of karma. People are not born the same due to their past karma accumulated lives after lives. The lord Buddha saw his own past lives when he made immoral acts causing suffering in each of his life (paying back in hell or in the human sphere). Then, he constituted the 5 precepts for laid people.
Dear venerable sirs; 1. I want to know if everything is impermanent, how samara cycles are permanent? 2. And how those cyclic inclusive great kalpas are impermanent? 3. If there is no soul, so we can not talk about reincarnation, but after rebirth, no soul, if i will be totally different person how can we call this as a rebirth? And the burden on newly reborn person based on past kamma/karma seems so unfair? Or why shall i have to inherit other ones good and wrong deeds. 4. And final question how Buddha attained all this information? I appreciate your help.
Peace PL Venerable ajan brahmali is 100% right because this is already proven by the scientiest the rebirth for instance please type (Scientific Evidence for Reincarnation by Dr Ian Stevenson) for evidence and please not to try to criticise to holy ajan brahmali.
I wonder why he said he would disrobe if he somehow got evidence that rebirth did not exist. If he isn't fully happy in this life with the way he lives he is not going to get any happier in the next.
Indeed friend in the Dhamma Enchentez. Pesala has wrong views, akin to Ajahn Brahmali. We have already quoted the relevent suttas about Noble Right View yet Pesala denies them.
The question about people dying with a "deranged or demented mind" was surely about people with mental illness -- the teacher's response seemed to be that having such mental states is our fault, because we have not cultivated a beautiful mind. But surely that is not always the case?
Pesala said the Non-returner must take rebirth in the Pure Abodes. The Pure Abodes are merely the 4th jhana & beyond. As suttas state: "There remains only equanimity: pure & bright, pliant, malleable & luminous." 4th jhana forms the basis for final practice, in this life and not another life.
Pesala said:"Wrong views such as eternalism (sassataditthi) and annihilationism (ucchedaditthi) lead to rebirth in the lower realms." We have referred Pesala to the Buddha's own words in the Kaccayanagotta Sutta, Itivuttaka (Twos) and Cula-sihanada Sutta yet Pesala denies them and slanders the suttas. In slandering the suttas and telling a deliberate lie, there is no limit to what one can do.
Rebirth may just be a useful construct or foundational principal, with no basis in "reality," for transcending the suffering we cause ourselves and which allows us to obtain enlightenment. In that sense it may obtain some basis in reality, just like we make ourselves angry or peaceful with no basis in "reality" often other than in our mind. Rebirth may be irrelevant or unneccesary because, if untrue, it will be our last birth anyway. It would still not invalidate the other practices.
A stream-winner is born again seven times because a stream-winner has seven more fetters in this life to severe or cut, seven more fetters that can give rise to attachment.
The first reasoning of this monk is flawed given he equates suffering with death. He says the Prince Siddhadarta gave up his sensual pleasures because he saw he would suffer in the future. Human beings have vast amounts of suffering in their everyday existence. When we read the Buddhist scriptures, we read the Prince Siddharta spend his time in his three palaces pondering the unsatisfactory nature of sensual pleasures and sought a more reliable form of peace and happiness.
Pesala said: "The Non-returner has not yet destroyed rebirth completely, as he or she must take rebirth again the Pure Abodes but he or she is not born in a womb again." If that was the case, Prince Siddharta was born into the world as a stream-winner, already having complete knowledge and faith in the path and was not required to undertake the Noble Search. Further, if that was the case, the Buddha would have had no fully enlightened disciples. Of course, this was not the case.
There are ten fetters: self-view, superstition, doubt, sensual desire, ill-will, lust for jhanic bliss, lust for immaterial bliss, conceit, restlessness and ignorance. A stream winner has cut the first three fetters and must cut seven more for complete enlightenment. Thus a stream winner is born into various states of becoming seven more times until liberated. This is simple science rather than superstition.
The Middle Way between eternalism and annihilationism is clearly explained in the Kaccayanagotta Sutta, Itivuttaka (Twos), Cula-sihanada Sutta and elsewhere. Thus Pesala, these suttas demonstrate it is you who hold wrong views and slander the Tathataga.
Pesala said: "The Non-returner has not yet destroyed rebirth completely, as he or she must take rebirth again the Pure Abodes but he or she is not born in a womb again." Pesala has denied the entire sutta pitaka & most of all the Noble Sangha. Lord Buddha had at least 1,250 fully enlightened arahant disciples. Each disciple began as an unenlightened ordinary person & acheived full enlightenment in their lifetime, some after only seven days of practice. Yet Pesala denies this.
@8Ho03EdONl1liL There is a reason for everything (Ye Dhamma Hethuppawa) but to know one must SEE(physically) how it happens bcos a being is physical. Buddha is the greatest physical and non-physical scientist of all.
Practice. Light the lamp of super wisdom , pradeepangna gawessatha" then one can see all and even attain enlightenment . It's so simple yet so difficult bcos of the rubbish the mo d
The second reasoning of this monk is both flawed. Prince Siddharta left home & learned two kinds of meditation with two teachers. The Prince left these two teachers & went to practise on his own, not because of anything to do with rebirth. He simply left because these meditations did not lead to final permanent peace but only to a temporary peace, what the Buddha called 'reappearance'. He could not dwell in these meditations permanently because they were not based in enlightenment wisdom.
@Alexisme1001 Bcos there are "TWO" in "ONE" person. but only one is known or seen. and never to know the "TWO" with "ONE" person's senses(6). the"TWO" relies on totally different mechanism using the universal nature as the base. one has to SEE this to understand bcos no language can be used to describe. Why bcos language belongs to "ONE". so to know the true mechanism is a mighty ask for anyone. but the Buddha found a way whr "ONE" can stop the "TWO" to be with universal nature eternally."
The Three Knowledges in the suttas predominantly exist in teachings given by the Buddha to Brahmins & laypeople. The Three Knowledges was a form of Buddhist propaganda to repudiate the Three Vedas of the Brahmins. Buddha saw his past lives, each time his mind regarded things as "self". Within divine eye, Buddha saw the kamma of beings. Then Buddha completed his enlightenment by fully comprehending the Four Noble Truths. Rebirth is a mundance teaching of blind faith for faith followers.
Rebirth is inherited. There is no evidence of it. Buddha did not give up pleasure. The scriptures state as a Prince he found sensual pleasures to bring little happiness & much danger. The meaning of recollection of passed lives is discussed in the Khajjaniya Sutta. It means seeing each time in the past we clung to one of five aggregates as "I" & "mine". In the Mahatanhasankhaya Sutta, the Buddha said if Dependent Origination is understood, one has never existed in the past, present or future.
Lastly. One wise advice to all those who fight over religions and who feels one is right but others not. Take this instead as appropriate to you. GOD=Universal nature, ALLAH=Universal Nature, Buddha=Universal nature, Krishna=Universial Nature (no Person) etc. bcos the truth is just ONE and NOT TWO. Bcos everything comes from one yet cannot be one but two there after. Be Wise. Over and Out.
Pesala. The Lord Buddha in the Kalama Sutta did not encourage the use of logical inference, contrary to your recommendation. Further, many monks study and practice for many years however have no realisation. After many years, they disrobe. The Sahassavagga states better it is to live one day seeing the Deathless than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the Deathless.
this is blind leading the blind. A blind man who has never seen an elephant describing an elephant. what do you get. For all those, know this. "The mind dies before the death of any being and it all happens thereafter ( a laymen will never know what) ".
Adding to why the fourth reasoning of this monk is false. If we type 'Maha-cattarisaka Sutta' into the internet, we can read how the Buddha said belief in rebirth is not the view of one developing whose mind is noble, whose mind is free from effluents, who is fully possessed of the noble path. Therefore, belief in rebirth cannot lead to jhanas and the noble right concentration the Buddha mentions in the scripture.
The fifth reasoning that Buddhists who do not believe in rebirth are 'half Buddhists' is flawed. In the Ani Sutta, Simsapa Sutta and Upali Sutta, all available on the internet, the Buddha states his teachings are connected with emptiness and the Four Noble Truths. Buddha states this is all a sincere disciple should master. It is this monk that is a half Buddhist because this monk holds as right view things the Buddha taught to Brahmins and other Hindus.
The third reasoning of this monk is false. The scriptures say the Buddha recollected his 'past dwellings', which is each time in the past his mind regarded an experience as "I", "me" or "mine". We can simply type 'Khajjaniya Sutta' into the internet to read this. This is how the Buddha taught his monks. The more superstitious version the Buddha taught Brahmins we can read in the 'Bhaya-bherava Sutta'. For many social & political reasons, the Buddha taught rebirth to Brahmins & kings.
@8Ho03EdONl1liL answer is :0%, 2). u r not expecting too much bcos that's the one and only goal of the Buddha's teaching. all in between utterances are just rubbish. for one to get or happen good things, there are many other ways to do so but not the Buddha's teachings. but the problm is one has to find a teacher qualifid to do so who must esentialy be an enlightend one him self first, then no book is necesary to refr. Buddha is so Wise and he only preached the path for one to see all answrs
Venerable ajan brahmali is 100% right because this is already proven by the scientiest the rebirth for instance please type (Scientific Evidence for Reincarnation by Dr Ian Stevenson) for evidence and please not to try to criticise to holy ajan brahmali.
The fourth reasoning of this monk is false. If one has right view, one has ceases regarding things as "I" and "mine". One follows the Four Noble Truths and ceased to attach to things and ceased to have craving. If a meditator is not adept at letting go and abandoning attachment, a meditator cannot attain the jhanas or deep meditations this monks is aspiring to.
@BaiserdeRenaissance Rebirth is a hoax. For example in Sri Lanka all the so called rebirths are within the country. And most of the time famous people whose private lives are also known to the public to certain extent. No one has ever claimed that he was living in a foreign country and spoke a foreign language.
Your thirty vassa is meaningless. Thirty years of useless & mindless superstition, ordaining for all the wrong reasonsn (like the ex-bhikkhu Kantipalo).
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I wasn’t sure about rebirth as I became more sceptical and questioning about everything. Gradually as I meditated more, I intuitively became very sure that rebirth is a fact of our existence. So from my own experience, I know that rebirth is a true phenomenon.
did you see a past life of yours? if you did how long did you meditate before you saw your past life? how many years or months had you meditated when you saw it? how many hours a day? i like to see it for myself
This was a great way of explaining the topic, thank you.
I believed in rebirth since I was about 12, but something that really made it clear for me was one day when I misspoke something - and in that moment knew that this is exactly how I used to speak in another life.
Great discourse as always , thank you Ajahn Brahmli . This subject is so complicated 😃!
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I'd like to know how far have you gone in term of studying Buddhism, and has your perception changed since last year. I have been a Buddhist for all my (current) life, and yes, there are still many aspects from many teachers which I still find hard to swallow. But as my most respected teacher, Ajahn Chah has stated, Buddhism is not about reading or listening, it's about practicing and see for yourself. So here I am still trying to practice and see for myself if this whole thing is real =)
@Medracin I like your take on pointing out one of the tenth things we shouldn't believe in. Apart from the effects of past karma that explain our present, I strongly believe that our present deeds affect our future. The present is what we can control.
BTW, we can gain wisdom through:
1) listening to good exposition of dhamma or reading
2) thinking/ reasoning 3) developing insight mediation
After more than 20 yrs of 1 & 2, I came to believe in rebirth by step 3 and then 1 and 2.
Finally, at min. 50, during the Question and Answer period, he started to talk about WHAT rebirth is.
wonderful topic
thank you very much
If there is no self, then what survives death and gets reborn ?
rakuna üçyüzdört Venerable ajan brahmali is 100% right because this is already proven by the scientiest the rebirth for instance please type (Scientific Evidence for Reincarnation by Dr Ian Stevenson) for evidence and please not to try to criticise to holy ajan brahmali.
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I assume energy.
Its the conciousness that migrates and takes birth
I still learning 🙏
i still really don't understand much about the areas about buddhism that require ''faith'' (rebirth, lifetimes, gods, heavens and hells. buddhism states its the most scietific of 'religions' but still find it hard to grasp these far-out aspects. i am starting to believe that meditation is a very powerful tool. i heard a talk where they tried to explain how with deep meditation you can go back futher than your earliest memory. so far you can go back previous lifetimes. mabe something to try..
Great. Thanks for your upload. #MasterChinKungEnlightenment
What does a worm need to do to generate good karma? I want to know in case I get reincarnated as one.
Belief in rebirth is right understanding on the mundane level. However, it is not supramundane understanding for enlightenment. This the Buddha makes clear in the Maha-cattarisaka Sutta.
In the 'Khajjaniya Sutta' , the Buddha states a 'noble disciple', through recollecting their 'past dwellings' or 'attachments', dismantles and does not build up, scatters and does not amass, extinguishes and does not kindle.
Yet his monk is doing the opposite. He is building up rather than dismantling, kindling rather than extinguishing, amassing rather than scattering.
do these monks eat 1 meal a day?
Pesala
A monk with right understanding about eternalism and annihilationism is Tejadhammo Bhikkhu.
There is a lecture by Tejadhammo Bhikkhu on You Tube called the happiness of non-clinging.
We can listen to his explanation of eternalism and annihilationism in part 2 of the talk.
Great. Thnaks a lot!!!
Enchentez. I find your metaphor of the 'eternalist Dhamma Kindergarten' fitting. It is reminiscent of a simile the Buddha himself used in the Satta Sutta. The Satta Sutta is on the internet. With metta, BB
@kirk75248
He says many times that NOT believing in rebirth is characteristic of wrong view, alongside not believing in kamma. Skeptics rightfully demand to know how these things can be known to be true. It is definitely possible through direct meditative gnosis and cognition, although I don't know what someone could show you to prove it scientifically or empirically.
bravo-please have more controversial topic like Kevata Sutta-concept of genesis
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Evolution itself is karma and rebirth in action. Science is forever contradicting itself but very slowly catching up with the Buddha 🤷🏼♂️🤣🙌
@Medracin You are not alone. I fully accept the 4 noble truths but this rebirth theory is difficult yto take. As you said, untill I see it to my self. So you are right to say that you are sticking to the kalama sutta as that is what I am doing with respect to this subject.
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55:00 good lecture. the only thing that I cannot grasp who is YOU that cultivates your mind 🤔
@Medracin
It is real. You can experience this when you attain Jhana state (after your mind absorbs the highest level of concentration meditation). Rebirth supports the law of karma. People are not born the same due to their past karma accumulated lives after lives. The lord Buddha saw his own past lives when he made immoral acts causing suffering in each of his life (paying back in hell or in the human sphere). Then, he constituted the 5 precepts for laid people.
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Dear venerable sirs;
1. I want to know if everything is impermanent, how samara cycles are permanent?
2. And how those cyclic inclusive great kalpas are impermanent?
3. If there is no soul, so we can not talk about reincarnation, but after rebirth, no soul, if i will be totally different person how can we call this as a rebirth? And the burden on newly reborn person based on past kamma/karma seems so unfair? Or why shall i have to inherit other ones good and wrong deeds.
4. And final question how Buddha attained all this information?
I appreciate your help.
Peace PL Venerable ajan brahmali is 100% right because this is already proven by the scientiest the rebirth for instance please type (Scientific Evidence for Reincarnation by Dr Ian Stevenson) for evidence and please not to try to criticise to holy ajan brahmali.
Peace PL ruclips.net/video/DrWy5WeNr8k/видео.html
I wonder why he said he would disrobe if he somehow got evidence that rebirth did not exist. If he isn't fully happy in this life with the way he lives he is not going to get any happier in the next.
Indeed friend in the Dhamma Enchentez. Pesala has wrong views, akin to Ajahn Brahmali.
We have already quoted the relevent suttas about Noble Right View yet Pesala denies them.
My English language is not very good yet 🙏🙏🙏
Every being dies but none are annihilated in the slightest.
The question about people dying with a "deranged or demented mind" was surely about people with mental illness -- the teacher's response seemed to be that having such mental states is our fault, because we have not cultivated a beautiful mind. But surely that is not always the case?
Pesala said the Non-returner must take rebirth in the Pure Abodes.
The Pure Abodes are merely the 4th jhana & beyond. As suttas state: "There remains only equanimity: pure & bright, pliant, malleable & luminous."
4th jhana forms the basis for final practice, in this life and not another life.
Pesala said:"Wrong views such as eternalism (sassataditthi) and annihilationism (ucchedaditthi) lead to rebirth in the lower realms."
We have referred Pesala to the Buddha's own words in the Kaccayanagotta Sutta, Itivuttaka (Twos) and Cula-sihanada Sutta yet Pesala denies them and slanders the suttas.
In slandering the suttas and telling a deliberate lie, there is no limit to what one can do.
Rebirth may just be a useful construct or foundational principal, with no basis in "reality," for transcending the suffering we cause ourselves and which allows us to obtain enlightenment. In that sense it may obtain some basis in reality, just like we make ourselves angry or peaceful with no basis in "reality" often other than in our mind. Rebirth may be irrelevant or unneccesary because, if untrue, it will be our last birth anyway. It would still not invalidate the other practices.
OK For a start why not you tell us what you wre in your former life?
A stream-winner is born again seven times because a stream-winner has seven more fetters in this life to severe or cut, seven more fetters that can give rise to attachment.
The first reasoning of this monk is flawed given he equates suffering with death. He says the Prince Siddhadarta gave up his sensual pleasures because he saw he would suffer in the future.
Human beings have vast amounts of suffering in their everyday existence. When we read the Buddhist scriptures, we read the Prince Siddharta spend his time in his three palaces pondering the unsatisfactory nature of sensual pleasures and sought a more reliable form of peace and happiness.
Pesala said:
"The Non-returner has not yet destroyed rebirth completely, as he or she must take rebirth again the Pure Abodes but he or she is not born in a womb again."
If that was the case, Prince Siddharta was born into the world as a stream-winner, already having complete knowledge and faith in the path and was not required to undertake the Noble Search.
Further, if that was the case, the Buddha would have had no fully enlightened disciples. Of course, this was not the case.
@fair7deal what do you propose? you sound like u know what your talking about
@Sh3rby Me too
There are ten fetters: self-view, superstition, doubt, sensual desire, ill-will, lust for jhanic bliss, lust for immaterial bliss, conceit, restlessness and ignorance.
A stream winner has cut the first three fetters and must cut seven more for complete enlightenment.
Thus a stream winner is born into various states of becoming seven more times until liberated.
This is simple science rather than superstition.
The Middle Way between eternalism and annihilationism is clearly explained in the Kaccayanagotta Sutta, Itivuttaka (Twos), Cula-sihanada Sutta and elsewhere.
Thus Pesala, these suttas demonstrate it is you who hold wrong views and slander the Tathataga.
Pesala said:
"The Non-returner has not yet destroyed rebirth completely, as he or she must take rebirth again the Pure Abodes but he or she is not born in a womb again."
Pesala has denied the entire sutta pitaka & most of all the Noble Sangha.
Lord Buddha had at least 1,250 fully enlightened arahant disciples. Each disciple began as an unenlightened ordinary person & acheived full enlightenment in their lifetime, some after only seven days of practice.
Yet Pesala denies this.
@8Ho03EdONl1liL There is a reason for everything (Ye Dhamma Hethuppawa) but to know one must SEE(physically) how it happens bcos a being is physical. Buddha is the greatest physical and non-physical scientist of all.
this guy looks younger in 2020 than in 2007!!!...reverse aging...
Practice. Light the lamp of super wisdom , pradeepangna gawessatha" then one can see all and even attain enlightenment . It's so simple yet so difficult bcos of the rubbish the mo d
The second reasoning of this monk is both flawed.
Prince Siddharta left home & learned two kinds of meditation with two teachers. The Prince left these two teachers & went to practise on his own, not because of anything to do with rebirth. He simply left because these meditations did not lead to final permanent peace but only to a temporary peace, what the Buddha called 'reappearance'. He could not dwell in these meditations permanently because they were not based in enlightenment wisdom.
@Alexisme1001 Bcos there are "TWO" in "ONE" person. but only one is known or seen. and never to know the "TWO" with "ONE" person's senses(6). the"TWO" relies on totally different mechanism using the universal nature as the base. one has to SEE this to understand bcos no language can be used to describe. Why bcos language belongs to "ONE". so to know the true mechanism is a mighty ask for anyone. but the Buddha found a way whr "ONE" can stop the "TWO" to be with universal nature eternally."
The Three Knowledges in the suttas predominantly exist in teachings given by the Buddha to Brahmins & laypeople. The Three Knowledges was a form of Buddhist propaganda to repudiate the Three Vedas of the Brahmins. Buddha saw his past lives, each time his mind regarded things as "self". Within divine eye, Buddha saw the kamma of beings. Then Buddha completed his enlightenment by fully comprehending the Four Noble Truths. Rebirth is a mundance teaching of blind faith for faith followers.
Rebirth is inherited. There is no evidence of it. Buddha did not give up pleasure. The scriptures state as a Prince he found sensual pleasures to bring little happiness & much danger. The meaning of recollection of passed lives is discussed in the Khajjaniya Sutta. It means seeing each time in the past we clung to one of five aggregates as "I" & "mine". In the Mahatanhasankhaya Sutta, the Buddha said if Dependent Origination is understood, one has never existed in the past, present or future.
Lastly. One wise advice to all those who fight over religions and who feels one is right but others not. Take this instead as appropriate to you. GOD=Universal nature, ALLAH=Universal Nature, Buddha=Universal nature, Krishna=Universial Nature (no Person) etc. bcos the truth is just ONE and NOT TWO. Bcos everything comes from one yet cannot be one but two there after. Be Wise. Over and Out.
Pesala.
The Lord Buddha in the Kalama Sutta did not encourage the use of logical inference, contrary to your recommendation.
Further, many monks study and practice for many years however have no realisation. After many years, they disrobe.
The Sahassavagga states better it is to live one day seeing the Deathless than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the Deathless.
Can't accept birth after actual death. Rebirth from moment to moment as in paticcasamupada, yes i can accept that.
So you accept a 'self'? 🤔
@@dublinphotoart No and yes. Self is an illusion that materializeswhen there is attachment
this is blind leading the blind. A blind man who has never seen an elephant describing an elephant. what do you get.
For all those, know this. "The mind dies before the death of any being and it all happens thereafter ( a laymen will never know what) ".
Adding to why the fourth reasoning of this monk is false.
If we type 'Maha-cattarisaka Sutta' into the internet, we can read how the Buddha said belief in rebirth is not the view of one developing whose mind is noble, whose mind is free from effluents, who is fully possessed of the noble path.
Therefore, belief in rebirth cannot lead to jhanas and the noble right concentration the Buddha mentions in the scripture.
The fifth reasoning that Buddhists who do not believe in rebirth are 'half Buddhists' is flawed. In the Ani Sutta, Simsapa Sutta and Upali Sutta, all available on the internet, the Buddha states his teachings are connected with emptiness and the Four Noble Truths. Buddha states this is all a sincere disciple should master.
It is this monk that is a half Buddhist because this monk holds as right view things the Buddha taught to Brahmins and other Hindus.
The third reasoning of this monk is false. The scriptures say the Buddha recollected his 'past dwellings', which is each time in the past his mind regarded an experience as "I", "me" or "mine". We can simply type 'Khajjaniya Sutta' into the internet to read this. This is how the Buddha taught his monks.
The more superstitious version the Buddha taught Brahmins we can read in the 'Bhaya-bherava Sutta'.
For many social & political reasons, the Buddha taught rebirth to Brahmins & kings.
@8Ho03EdONl1liL answer is :0%, 2). u r not expecting too much bcos that's the one and only goal of the Buddha's teaching. all in between utterances are just rubbish. for one to get or happen good things, there are many other ways to do so but not the Buddha's teachings. but the problm is one has to find a teacher qualifid to do so who must esentialy be an enlightend one him self first, then no book is necesary to refr. Buddha is so Wise and he only preached the path for one to see all answrs
Venerable ajan brahmali is 100% right because this is already proven by the scientiest the rebirth for instance please type (Scientific Evidence for Reincarnation by Dr Ian Stevenson) for evidence and please not to try to criticise to holy ajan brahmali.
lol, you replied to your own comment!
The fourth reasoning of this monk is false. If one has right view, one has ceases regarding things as "I" and "mine". One follows the Four Noble Truths and ceased to attach to things and ceased to have craving. If a meditator is not adept at letting go and abandoning attachment, a meditator cannot attain the jhanas or deep meditations this monks is aspiring to.
....rubbish the mind collect and reuse all the time
Please explain.
Lo, Islam is one way ticket. No rebirth. but Resuccrete
lol
Pesala said:
"You're obviously very confused about the Buddha's teachings."
Are you a bhikkhu Pesala or are you are liar?
@BaiserdeRenaissance
Rebirth is a hoax.
For example in Sri Lanka all the so called rebirths are within the country. And most of the time famous people whose private lives are also known to the public to certain extent. No one has ever claimed that he was living in a foreign country and spoke a foreign language.
Your thirty vassa is meaningless. Thirty years of useless & mindless superstition, ordaining for all the wrong reasonsn (like the ex-bhikkhu Kantipalo).
KSol. I could not have expressed it better myself. This monk has no insight and his speech is quite shameful to Buddhism.
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