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| May 26, 2020 at 11:59 | comment | added | user17389 | Buddha talks about "spirit" in Pali Canon. Spirit is soul without body. See Ratana sutta, Aja Sutta, (in many more Suttas, also in Jataka tales). Search word "spirit" in accesstoinsight. End of topic. | |
| Apr 2, 2019 at 9:34 | comment | added | Ev0oD | I understood it the same way, but then what past lives have Buddha been talking about? How could he get access to memories of past lives, if there are no past lives, that could be considered "his"? And what are teachers talking about when they say that "you" might be able to achieve nirvana in the next lives, if not this one? Those will not be your lives anymore. Either you liberate yourself in this life, or generate further suffering for next lives, which will have to try to liberate themselves from in their life. | |
| Feb 20, 2018 at 15:06 | comment | added | Andriy Volkov♦ | I agree with many of your assertions here, but I still hold that illusion does not have to be reality in order to be functional and require deconstruction. | |
| Feb 20, 2018 at 13:32 | comment | added | Mike de Klerk |
@AndreiVolkov In my reasoning, the following sentence strengthens the independent existence of a self: working towards deconstruction of self. It implies the deconstructed self is there the moment you are not working on its deconstruction, which is not true. There is no self to begin with, hence there is nothing to deconstruct. It is rather learning to see that you are constructing it, and when fully seen that you are, it is simply a matter of not having to put it together anymore, as reality is easier worked with without that delusional mental construct.
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| Nov 30, 2016 at 0:58 | comment | added | Andriy Volkov♦ | Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, when asked what is it that gets reincarnated said "neurosis". He was joking of course, but seriously, it is nothing else but Karma or we could say information. You can ask around but yes, I believe this is a common understanding among advanced practitioners | |
| Nov 29, 2016 at 23:41 | comment | added | Carl G | So if I understand you correctly, there is no such thing as rebirth of self or rebirth of the individual, just ongoing causation. Is this an accepted position among practitioners? | |
| Jul 7, 2015 at 7:07 | comment | added | jitin | n.. Once practitioner is free from illusion of self (in practice, not just conceptually), the notion of individual birth/death/rebirth no longer applies. From this perspective, rebirth is a byproduct of attachment to a (substantial) self. Influenced me. | |
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| Jun 18, 2014 at 2:48 | history | answered | Andriy Volkov♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |