If reincarnation did occur, what would be the poing since nobody could remember their past lives?
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There are four laws of karma:\n1. Karma is fixed.\n2. Karma increases.\n3. Karmic results are only experienced by one who created the cause for that experience.\n4. Karmic seeds do not lose their potency of their own accord.\n\nRegarding #2 - both positive and negative karmic results increase in potency unless they are obstructed. Positive results can be obstructed by anger, and other negative actions. Negative results can be obstructed through the directed positive actions of our Dharma practice, the Four Opponent Powers and so forth.\n\nRegarding #4 - 'of their own accord' means that unless we intervene with directed positive Dharma actions to purify and transform negative actions, those actions will never lose potency. They will perpetually have the power to bring us suffering.\n\nWe carry the karmic seeds of our actions around with us until we transform (purify) them, or until they meet the right causes and conditions to ripen. It is said that most of the karma that we create in this lifetime will ripen in future.\n\nBuddhist do not believe in an eternal soul. It is the mind-stream, not the soul, which goes through rebirth and cycles in existence. The mind-stream is ever-changing though, like the Ganges River.\n\nThe Buddha stated three things which are misunderstandings about karma ---that everything:\n1) Is here due to no reason\n2) Is the creation of a god\n3) Is completely controlled by karma (so it becomes like a fate).\n\nWe can go on and on about how people suffer, whether someone is born without an arm or whether one is persecuted during a war or holocaust. I think the misunderstanding is the person who asked you the question is assuming that karma is a fate system. Karma is not a fate system.\n\nKarma plants a seed, and when certain conditions are around, that karmic seed ripens. Your life is not predetermined.\n\nIf one assumes any of those "three misunderstandings" the question seems right. If everything is here due to no reason, it would be a very sad that someone is born in a very bad condition. If everything is due to a God's creation, it is horrible that God allowed this to take place and allowed such bad conditions to take place. If everything is a fate system, then we are merely robots who have not much control over the outcome of anything.\n\nBut Buddha taught none of these, and karma does not fall into these misunderstandings. The seed for the particular karma was present and was able to ripen under the conditions (such as an unhealthy maternity)... not because it was predetermined!
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There are two possibilities.\n\n1. The reincarnation is a fact because nobody, any pastor, any catholic roman father or anybody can explain why there are so strong differences between the human beings.\n\nWe are living always in a process to have the perfection in our soul, and our soul need live many experiences because through our experiences we can learn. And one life is so short for it. We must have other chances to take good choices. Definetly, the reincarnation is VERY AND A HALF POSSIBLE, but the question is...Why Jesus did not tell us about it? MAy be we was not ready to know something like that? MAy be soon the true will be discovered.\n\n2. The other option is that we only have one life. and this life happens because there are a big Machine of souls that is sending us here to have experiences like humans giving us the chance to go to the Heaven forever or to the Hell. and this chance is for us but the world was gave to the humans like God says in Genesis. And we are the resposible about what will happen with our brothers when are borning here and are sick or poor or something. But this option is very complicated because in some places in the world we dont have control to care our brothers and gave them the life that we know all humans being could deserve. And now it is complicated. The reincarnation is simply 150% possible and a half.
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An omnipotent human? Wouldn't your head explode? \nTo know everything ( EVERYTHING ) at the same time from past, present, and beyond? No thank you.
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There is no such thing as abrain transplant, it is impossible because nerves which are the system of travelling pulses, cannot be repaired therefore there would be no memories transplanted.\nOnce the nerve connections are broken then the person is considered dead and cannot be revived, if it was possible then people would be woken up from the dead.
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There are many theories, including dream travel, telepathy, and reincarnation. According to scientific research, it is merely a false memory which is created in the subconscious mind. For example, one may percieve a present scene, but their subconcious will regester it as a past event. It is often linked to schizophrenia and anxiety disorders. However, people with synesthesia, out of body, or near death experiences may frequently experience Deja Vu.
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i'm not sure about your past life, but if you want to find out your spirit guide, just ask to be told..ask before you go to sleep..ask for it to be in your dream...or go to a quiet place and ask to see your guide..if you believe it'll happen..good luck.
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Reincarnation is a truth ... If one book does not mention it, Truth does not become false...\n\nReincarnation is perhaps a wrong word used...hindus and Buddhists use Re-Birth instead.\n\nOur soul starts its journey in chemicals...and after each awakening find itself in plants, animals and finally human beings. \n\nAs humans we have to learn millions of lessons of pains and joys, richness and poverties, cruelty and kindness, killing and be killed, ...till we reach our next mind evolution i.e. Divinity.\n\nOne life is not sufficient for all these lessons. hence our soul, after death goes to another body to learn other sets of lessons\n\nThe paradoxes as to why some are born rich some poor, some without mind or without limbs...some from poverty going to utter richness...some spiritual from childhood... can not be explained without Reincarnation\n\nDont ask proof, because no one can give proof of God or heaven/hell...there are certain things which are beyond physical proofs\n\nMany during the hypnotic state have remembered their last birth.\n\nWhy we dont remember past birth? Because Nature does not want us to get entangled to our last relations...so that we can freely learn new lessons...that z why She takes away the gross memory at death..and leads soul to new body with the resultant progress earned during last births
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I personally believe that we are reincarnated and there are others in the universe...others don't believe because they are narrow minded and scared, they could also be young souls that don't have much experience.
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If reincarnation is real, please don't send me back.\n\nBeyond that, I'd be so happy to be there that I doubt I'd say anything.
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I am a believer in reincarnation. It would explain why children come into the world with such distinct personalities, and also why people have such odd phobias. There is scientific evidence (none of it conclusive) that reinforces my belief as well. I also believe that there are many places in the Universe where one may incarnate, and that a lot of beings from other places are choosing to live lives here now. I'm flirting with the idea that I'm from one of those other places, because I'm so drawn to the idea of extraterrestrial life.
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I believe in reincarnation. Reincarnation is basically a system like weather. When plants die in the fall/winter they are renewed, or reborn in the spring/summer. Many people (including me) believe in karma, and that it affects what your future life will be like... For example, if you were a murderer in this life, in the next life you may not be as happy. If you were like Ghandi in this life, you would be very rich in spirit in the next life. It's complicated, but there is evidence for it. Google it.
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Do you believe in reincarnation?
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I do believe in an afterlife, but assuming heaven did not exist, then, yes I believe humans would create a belief in one for comfort and expectation of a new life to come.  I could even go as far as to say the mind is a powerful thing, powerful enough to even create supposed proof of afterlife by communicating with departed souls.  But, if the mind is that powerful, enough to falsely prove life exists after this one, isn't that power enough to say something bigger is going on here.  It points to the path the soul does live on, in my opinion.
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There's nothing called past life or karma. i dont believe in them.
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reincarnation is what we, hindu's, believe. and yes i am hindu and me and the rest of my hindu family do believe in reincarnation, and it means, when you die you are reborn into anything, it could be a ant or a frog or anything living but only living things, no food. and it mostly means a lot to me but i am not sure about my family because they always say that you can never remember your past life. so whats the point.
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That is a scary thought, just one wrong person or even one wrong move and the world could be thrown into a parallel time or alternate universe, but would someone with a time machine be able to fix what went wrong. Then I think of what good even I could or what  I would want to go back and "fix" warn myself or loved ones of mistakes, prevent some deaths, but I know that this is not my place and I would not want to "play" God, Greed would probably play into it and I would want to play the lottery or something equally greedy. Great Question!!! Thanks for getting me to think about this.
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No one really knows about re-incarnation.  There are alot of people out there who look quite a bit alike yet thre is no relation.\n\nHere is what I believe:  \nWe are made of energy (fact).  When we die, that energy remains (fact).  So who is to say it DOESN'T go from your body to another's?  For all you know you can be a re-incarnated person and you wouldn't know it.  I mean...you won't remember anything of your previous life...it isn't the memory that passes along..it is your energy.  You could be the same energy of someone else.  \nEnergy cannot be created nor destroyed.  FACT.\n\nBelieve what you want...just have your faith.