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Is rebirth a delusional belief?
"Anatta" does not mean "no-self". It means "not-self". Therefore, the Buddha did not deny the arising of the "self" concept in the mind. In fact, the Buddha taught extensively about how the idea of "...
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Is rebirth a delusional belief?
The Buddha is like a doctor (Iti 100) who treats the illness which is suffering (dukkha). Please also see this answer.
A lay beginner who still has self view (sakkāya ditthi) i.e. someone who is not ...
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Is rebirth a delusional belief?
Persistence of experience, in a continuous event during the time we are alive gives the mistaken impression that, if we pay insufficient attention, we may reach the conclusion that we who experience ...
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Is rebirth a delusional belief?
Rebirth is real and eventually will be proven, as is the afterlife (with heavenly and hellish worlds).
As The Buddha explained:
"Sariputta, there are these five destinations. What are the five? ...
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Do modern-day Buddhists take "Mara The Evil One" literally?
Mara is simply the gatekeeper of Samsara, it wants to keep all life in an endless cycle of death and rebirth without beginning or ending. This cycle is full of unresolved karma and is full of ...
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Evidence of Pali Canon's Origin
The scholar Hans Wolfgang Schumann in his (german) monography "Der historische Buddha - Leben und Lehre des Gotama" (1995) ("the historical Buddha - life and teaching of Gotama, 2005") gave a ...
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Evidence of Pali Canon's Origin
Are the Buddha's words the source of the Pali Canon? What evidence is there of the Pali Canon's origin? What do scholars say?
My answers to the questions are based on known facts. Thus I define the ...
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Evidence of Pali Canon's Origin
In my opinion, all we can know for certain are words spoken or written down by 'a Buddha' (i.e., an awakened enlightened mind) rather than by 'the Buddha' (i.e. Gotama). The only way we can know this ...
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Do modern-day Buddhists take "Mara The Evil One" literally?
I would go so far as to say that neither Christians nor Muslims agree that Satan is a real being in the material world. After all, during the Holocaust, some Christians hid Jews in their homes. If ...
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Is rebirth a delusional belief?
There is no reincarnation. There is rebirth. Rebirth is merely the continuation of that-which-flows in the realm of space-time.
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Is rebirth a delusional belief?
It could be argued that any belief or disbelief is delusional, particularly when there is attachment or aversion to views. In any case the suttas do describe beings reappearing in different realms ...
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Is rebirth a delusional belief?
Rebirth is the one of the main reasons to practice Buddhism otherwise you are just following nihilism, just kill yourself and its done. It will not match the concept of dependent origination or the ...
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