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Reincarnation: What about MY past life?

(True Lives)

My past lives are me, right? I mean, that's "me" as much as this is, isn't it? How could the answer be that, ultimately speaking, I'm neither those people nor this one if, conventionally speaking, I'm as much that one as this one -- and bear the karma (the weight of deeds done good and ill in the past) of both, of all I have been? Answer? Be here now.

REBIRTH: patisandhi, literally "relinking, reunion," is one of the 14 functions of consciousness (viññāna-kicca). It is a karma-resultant type of consciousness that arises at the moment of conception, that is, with the forming of a new life in a mother's womb.

• REBIRTH: (punabbhava) literally, "re-becoming, again-becoming, rearising, "renewed existence," is a sutra term for "rebirth," which in later literature is mostly referred to as patisandhi.

Immediately afterwards consciousness sinks into the "subconscious stream of existence [becoming]" (bhavanga-sota). It is conditioned. Therefore, ever and ever-again, corresponding states of subconsciousness arise. Thus, it is really rebirth-consciousness that determines the latent character of a person.

"Neither has this (rebirth-) consciousness transmigrated [traveled] from the previous existence to this present existence, nor did it arise without such conditions as karma, karmic-formations, propensity, object, and so on.

That this consciousness has not come from the previous existence to this present existence, yet that it has come into existence by means of causes and conditions included in the previous existence, such as karma and so on, this fact may be illustrated by various things, such as:

• the echo,
• the light of a lamp,
• the impression of a seal,
• the image produced by a mirror
• [the movement of a wave across the ocean].
• [Doesn't a tsunami wave travel, after a massive quake, from Japan to California?]
• [No, never. The influence of it travels, but never does a single drop of water move from there to here. Stare at a wave. It seems to be a moving column of water moving across the ocean. But that is not what it is. What is it? It is one water molecule compressing another next to it and so on and so on. This compression and expansion, in a sense, is the "wave," not any particular drop of water. Strange but true.]

For just as the resounding of the echo is conditioned by a sound and so on and nowhere in the process is there a transmigration of sound has taken place, just so is it with this consciousness.

Furthermore, it is said: "In this continuous process, no sameness and no otherness can be found." For if there were full identity (between the different stages, past and present), then also milk could never turn into curd. And if there were a complete otherness, then curd could never come from milk....

If in the continuity of existence any karma-result [vipaka, phala] takes place, then this karma-result neither belongs to any other being, nor does it come from any other (karma), because absolute sameness and otherness are excluded here" (The Path of Purification, Vis, XVII 164ff).

In The Questions of King Milinda or Milindapahna (Mil.) it is said: "Now, Venerable Nāgasena, the one who is reborn, is that person the same as the one who has died, or is that person another?"

"Neither the same nor another" (Pali na ca so na ca añño).

"Give me an example."

"What do you think, O King: Are you now, as a grown-up, the same as you had been as a young and tender babe?"

"No, Venerable sir. Another person was the young and tender babe, but quite a different person am I now as a grown-up man."...

"...In the first watch of the night, is one lamp burning, and another in the middle watch, and yet another in the last watch of the night?"

"No, Venerable sir. The light during the whole night depends on one and the same lamp.''

"Just so, O King, is the chain of phenomena linked together. One phenomenon arises, another vanishes, yet all are linked together, one after the other, without interruption. In this way, one reaches the final state of consciousness neither as the same person nor as another.'' More: patisandhi

• True Lives (video); Ven. Nyanatiloka, Buddhist Dictionary; Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Rebirth is real, sometimes we remember

(Buddhism Podcast) Who were we BEFORE we were [re-]born? Buddhism explains

5-year-old Amercian boy says he was Black woman: The Ghost Inside My Child (S1 Flashback) | LMN

If I were a white man, I'd bring down the Patriarchy and White Power Structure. - How?

My name was once "Pam"!

(LMN) When 5-year-old Luke told his mother his name was "Pam" in the "time before" [this current rebirth] when he was Black and he "was pushed out of heaven [by god sending him back to earth to be reborn as a boy]," Erika became nervous. Then things escalated when Luke began to recall dying a fiery death in this clip from Season 1, Episode 3, "Orphan Trains & Hotel Flames."

Uh-oh, does this mean that a privileged white male now can die and be reborn as an oppressed Black female -- or someone suffering famine and other deprivations in the Third World? Oh, is that what the Buddha was talking about when he warned about karma? #GhostInsideMyChild #Tulku

• Rebirth (Buddhism)

American kids reveal memories of picking their parents (compilation)

• Ghost Inside My Child, LMN, Jan. 9, 2023; Buddhism Podcast; Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Jesus never existed, a literary invention

Five forgotten incarnations of Christ (Osiris, Krishna, [Vishnu], Zarathustra, Sophia)

and our own potential for Cosmic or Christ Consciousness as understood by Gnostics

• Do I also have Buddha-nature, the potential for enlightenment?
• List of messiah claimants

Cosmic Consciousness

Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind is an attempted scientific study of illuminated individuals. Author Richard Maurice Bucke provides three dozen very consistent examples of "cosmic consciousness." Some of these are the usual suspects, and others are contemporary case-histories which Bucke collected. He proposed that these enlightened figures are evolutionary jumps, the predecessor of a more advanced species. (Internet Archive)

• 10 intentional changes made to Bible (Pt. 1 of 2)
• VIDEO: Why Christianity is so divided

Historical figure versus divine fantasy

Church exaggerated me into God

There's another distinction, the small and nearly insignificant historical figure (Jesus the Nazarene of Bethlehem) used as the core of a lot of ancient mythology and astrotheology, which Dr. Reza Aslan calls the fantasy version or "Jesus Christ." It is easy to take a questionable person, like William Shakespeare, and make a superman out of him until one wonders if there ever was a root figure to begin with, one stripped of all the additional mythology grafted onto him.

I'm a professional academic Bible scholar

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth is a historical account of the life of a possible person, Jesus, that analyzes religious perspectives on the figure and the creation of Christianity. Prof. of Religion Aslan, Ph.D., argues that Jesus was a political rebel and eschatological ("end times") Jew, whose proclamation of the "coming kingdom of God" [not the genocidal figure in the Old Testament Bible but rather the Gnostic real God] was a call for regime change, for ending Roman Empire hegemony over Judea and the corrupt and oppressive aristocratic Jewish priesthood. The New York Times bestseller has been optioned by Lionsgate and producer David Heyman with a script co-written by Aslan and screenwriter James Schamus. More

For those who cling, there's this Jesus

• The Esoteric Path

When "demons" put fear in a cowardly warrior

MAGA voter snaps over right wing's lies

Shut up about Epstein, Weaklings. Get over it. So what if I had sex with kids? And shut up about Bondi! She's helping me rig future elections! Let's be a family again where you shut the hell up!