Buddhists, is it possible to discover who your reincarnated from?

Question

I think I did...

The connection between this person feels like a spark, he looks so similar too me too, it's a striking similarity.

Answer 1

Possible,if you are an advance meditator.Once,met a Myanmar lady that was able to 'see' two of her pervious lives.One was a soldier and another was a green snake.She gave up trying to 'see' her previous lives after realising it is all a futile exercise and concentrate on the present.

Answer 2

ln Buddhism, one of the teaching is reincarnation, that means we reborn again & again due to the cause and effect (in buddhism it call karma) which we have created since beginningless time.

It is possible to discovered who and where we are reincarnated from, and there's a lot of book written to proved the exist of reincarnation, those who have reborn actually remember who and where there were in their previous life time. However as most of us have a mind which is obscured and delued, we won't be able to know who and where we have reincarnated from.

As for my own experience, when I went to a place on my india trip recently, I felt so familiar to the place, as it was my home previous life, thoug I can't give any proof that how I got such feeling, but I pretty sure that my feeling was true as I don't usually got such strong connected feeling.

Answer 3

Buddha himself was able to see into 550 of his previous lives including living as a tiger.

Answer 4

It doesn't really work like that. I think the best they can do is give you the tests to see if you are descendant of the next dalai lama.

Answer 5

damn it! damn it! damn it! i am racking my brain trying to come up with a smartassed answer for this and i got nothing.oh well your a f*cking fruitcake! there that's the best i can do.but the answer i gave to this chick that was asking about how to get rid of demons "if you hire an exorcist on credit make sure you keep the payments up or you'll get repossesed!" that was fuc king hilarious.ah!,hell i kill me.well good luck with that ya looney!

Answer 6

I think you might feel a connection but not exactly to know.

Answer 7

hypnosis by some one reputable

Answer 8

We may meet friends and relatives of our past lives and feel they are so familier. This is not uncommon in this long journy of ours.
We can see our own past births through a concentrated mind. Read the powers of mind in this powerful teaching of Lord Buddha:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/dn/dn.11.0.than.html

"...Recollection of Past Lives
"With his mind thus concentrated, purified, and bright, unblemished, free from defects, pliant, malleable, steady, and attained to imperturbability, he directs and inclines it to knowledge of the recollection of past lives (lit: previous homes). He recollects his manifold past lives, i.e., one birth, two births, three births, four, five, ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, one hundred, one thousand, one hundred thousand, many aeons of cosmic contraction, many aeons of cosmic expansion, many aeons of cosmic contraction and expansion, [recollecting], 'There I had such a name, belonged to such a clan, had such an appearance. Such was my food, such my experience of pleasure and pain, such the end of my life. Passing away from that state, I re-arose there. There too I had such a name, belonged to such a clan, had such an appearance. Such was my food, such my experience of pleasure and pain, such the end of my life. Passing away from that state, I re-arose here.' Thus he recollects his manifold past lives in their modes and details. Just as if a man were to go from his home village to another village, and then from that village to yet another village, and then from that village back to his home village. The thought would occur to him, 'I went from my home village to that village over there. There I stood in such a way, sat in such a way, talked in such a way, and remained silent in such a way. From that village I went to that village over there, and there I stood in such a way, sat in such a way, talked in such a way, and remained silent in such a way. From that village I came back home.' In the same way — with his mind thus concentrated, purified, and bright, unblemished, free from defects, pliant, malleable, steady, and attained to imperturbability — the monk directs and inclines it to knowledge of the recollection of past lives. He recollects his manifold past lives... in their modes and details.

"This, too, is called the miracle of instruction...."