what are your views on reincarnation?

Answer 1

Hasn't been proved or disproved. But I hope it's real.

Answer 2

We are all reincarnated..............Some people have old souls and others have young souls. This means that the older ones have had many more lives. We are all here to learn and we each have many lives to learn in before we move on . Each life reaches a different level and each of these has a level. It is just the body that dies the spirit goes on. Just like when you get a new car ..you have new transport but are the same driver.

Answer 3

Memories are stored via neurons. If there were some form of reincarnation, recall of a past life would not be possible.

I believe we are all basically the same, minus genetics, our environment, and experiences. In such an instance we as a species continue to thrive on. As an individual reincarnation is not at all plausible.

Answer 4

If we have a spirit within that can live independent of the physical body. And is currently living in a physical body. It only stands to
reason that it can do this more than once.
I have had a number of past-life recollections. And Jesus said
in Scripture that John the Baptist was Elijah who was to return.
KJV. John is also told he will have to prophesy again before nations and kings.

Answer 5

It is definitely true that we reincarnate. God wouldn't only give us one go at getting it right.

Answer 6

I don't believe it, except in the sense that matter can't be destroyed so it all goes round & round.

however I don't think you die, then are reborn as a goat or something, depending on your last life, thats rather childish & silly.

Answer 7

A gross misunderstanding of about Buddhism exists today, especially in the notion of reincarnation. The common misunderstanding is that a person has led countless previous lives, usually as an animal, but somehow in this life he is born as a human being and in the next life he will be reborn as an animal, depending on the kind of life he has lived.

What Reincarnation is "Not"

Reincarnation is not a simple physical birth of a person; for instance, John being reborn as a cat in the next life. In this case John possesses an immortal soul which transforms to the form of a cat after his death. This cycle is repeated over and over again. Or if he is lucky, he will be reborn as a human being. This notion of the transmigration of the soul definitely does not exist in Buddhism.

Karma is a Sanskrit word from the root "Kri" to do or to make and simply means "action." It operates in the universe as the continuous chain reaction of cause and effect. It is not only confined to causation in the physical sense but also it has moral implications. "A good cause, a good effect; a bad cause a bad effect" is a common saying. In this sense karma is a moral law.

Now human beings are constantly giving off physical and spiritual forces in all directions. In physics we learn that no energy is ever lost; only that it changes form. This is the common law of conservation of energy. Similarly, spiritual and mental action is never lost. It is transformed. Thus Karma is the law of the conservation of moral energy.

By actions, thoughts, and words, man is releasing spiritual energy to the universe and he is in turn affected by influences coming in his direction. Man is therefore the sender and receiver of all these influences. The entire circumstances surrounding him is his karma.

With each action-influence he sends out and at the same time, receives, he is changing. This changing personality and the world he lives in, constitute the totality of his karma.

Karma should not be confused with fate. Fate is the notion that man's life is preplanned for him by some external power, and he has no control over his destiny. Karma on the other hand, can be changed. Because man is a conscious being he can be aware of his karma and thus strive to change the course of events. In the Dhammapada we find the following words, "All that we are is a result of what we have thought, it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts."

What we are, then, is entirely dependent on what we think. Therefore, the nobility of man's character is dependent on his"good" thoughts, actions, and words. At the same time, if he embraces degrading thoughts, those thoughts invariably influence him into negative words and actions.

Traditionally, Buddhism teaches the existence of the ten realms of being. At the top is Buddha and the scale descends as follows: Bodhisattva (an enlightened being destined to be a Buddha, but purposely remaining on earth to teach others), Pratyeka Buddha (a Buddha for himself), Sravka (direct disciple of Buddha), heavenly beings (superhuman [angels?]), human beings, Asura (fighting spirits), beasts, Preta (hungry ghosts), and depraved men (hellish beings).

Now, these ten realms may be viewed as unfixed, nonobjective worlds, as mental and spiritual states of mind. These states of mind are created by men's thoughts, actions, and words. In other words, psychological states. These ten realms are "mutually immanent and mutually inclusive, each one having in it the remaining nine realms." For example, the realm of human beings has all the other nine states (from hell to Buddhahood). Man is at the same time capable of real selfishness, creating his own hell, or is truly compassionate, reflecting the compassion of Amida Buddha. Buddhas too have the other nine realms in their minds, for how can a Buddha possibly save those in hell if he himself does not identify with their suffering and guide them to enlightenment.

We can learn a valuable lesson from the teaching of reincarnation.

In what realm do you now live? If you are hungry for power, love, and self-recognition, you live in the Preta world, or hungry ghosts. If you are motivated only by thirsts of the human organism, you are existing in the world of the beast.

Consider well then your motives and intentions. Remember that man is characteristically placed at the midpoint of the ten stages; he can either lower himself abruptly or gradually into hell or through discipline, cultivation and the awakening of faith rise to the Enlightened state of the Buddha.

Answer 8

absolutely do not believe in reincarnation... is nothing more than a theory

Answer 9

Its appointed unto man, ONCE to die, and after this the Judgement. (Hebrews 9:27) . Thats my view...theBerean

Answer 10

My view is that it simply does not happen. When we die, we die. Perhaps not a comforting thought, but I fully believe that this is what happens.

Answer 11

I absolutely don't believe it......but in a previous life I was totally convinced it was true.