Whats your thoughts of reincarnation?Does the mind continue after death?
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In my opinion yes, mind has no beginning and no end. It is an eternal continnum. One more reason to pay attention to our thoughts, words and actions.
Check "The Tibetan Book of Life and Death", by Sogyal Rinpoche. It is an introduction to the Tibetan Buddhist's view on death and re-birth, with a very western and inspirational approach.
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I believe I'm a reincarnate! I never heard of the beginningless mind thing, though. Interesting, very interesting.
I don't exactly care. All i know is that i want to go to heaven after my death.
The reincarnationists who advocate that the individual soul lives on are starting from a poisition of selfishness. To what end would a master being design such a scheme? When a tree dies int he forest, the physical being is broken down into elements and used elsewhere in the environment. I believe that the spiritual world works the same way; the greater being absorbs the life of the individual and when a new child is born there may be elements of conciousness from many different individuals (or maybe just virgin soul stuff).
I find it funny that of all the people I've heard who claim reincarnation, they were all a somebody. Nobody was a peasant pig farmer.
Mind, body and spirit are tied together with each incarnation. The body and the mind can be different with each incarnation but the spirit is eternal. This is a tricky concept however, because the general opinion I understand from Buddhists and Taoists are that the spirit starts with an incarnation and reincarnates as many times as necessary to come to a complete understanding of both detail and the universe at once. Then once this enlightenment happens the spirit moves on to another plane of existence and doesn't reincarnate on this plane of existence again.
As I understand the mind and how it is tied to spirit: the mind learns a finite of information in each lifetime and carries these beliefs into each following lifetime to learn and unlearn beliefs becoming more and more enlightened. So old concepts of the mind can be held in the spirit; whether those concepts are true or not. Also, memories can be held onto and hurt you in this lifetime, no matter what lifetime they occur ed.
I suggest Dr. Doreen Virtue's Karma Cleansing book; you can get it on tape or CD and meditate to it. It helped me clean my mind of old beliefs from past lives.
if you think about it a thought is just a continuation of another and a belief is a thought and a belief is handed down from parent to child and on and on so in a way i guess you could say that thoughts are never starting and never ending.
The mind, I believe, is an element in and of itself. It can be destroed, like all other elements but is renewable. Thought and conscieness live on eternally, as long as their is something to think about and a new task or thought form to grasp. The mind continues after death and is placed in another existence to evolve and grow and grasp new concepts of thoudht, while the body is a finite object, the mind is ifinite.
You might be interested in looking up the books of Brian Weiss http://www.brianweiss.com/ He is a psychiatrist that has done work with past life regressions.
Also the Division of Pereceptual Studies at http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/int... University of Virginia did research on reincarnation (mostly by Dr. Ian Stevenson)
Some of the questions you pose have been asked (not answered) for many years and work continues but at this time we have limited ways to test for answers.
Michael John Weaver, M.S.
p.s. wish you a speedy recovery
no the worldly mind does not go on, Example when a person goes unconscious, the first thing the paramedics or doctors ask is do you remember what happened. Is this necessary if the mind is still active, and yes I know the brain is still functioning but your thoughts are not known to you at the time.
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