![]() ![]() ![]() So if we aren’t the same person who is reincarnating over and over again – why do many people have memories of these ‘past lives’? The moment you start identifying with present or past life identities is the moment you begin creating a division between yourself and the world around you – and it is this that is the root of all disharmony in the world. However, in order to prevent identification with it, they didn’t refer to it as a “Soul”.Īs we mature in soul age we come to understand the wisdom in this Buddhist teaching. In this way, Buddhism understands our soul’s as an energy, or an ever-burning flame. When you go to blow it out in the morning can you say that it is the same flame that you had ignited in the previous evening? It is not the same flame, and yet somehow it is connected. The Buddhist idea of the Soul can be compared to the following analogy: You light a candle in the evening and leave it over night. But how can a religion like Buddhism that doesn’t believe in the soul believe in reincarnation ? I believe the answer is that it was to prevent us from creating an ego identification with our “Souls”. This understanding of reincarnation closely resembles that of the Buddhist idea that the continuity continues, but the individual disappears. It is this very pure awareness which serves as the experiencer and observer of life, and it is this pure awareness that we can refer to as our Soul. There is something within us that is constant and continuous, and that is pure awareness. ‘ I‘ is a transitioning, ever-changing phenomenon.Īlthough our identities and senses of self are ever-changing, there is something that remains the same. We can easily prove this by catching up with a friend that we haven’t seen for 30 years – both you and your friend will not be the same person as you both were in the past. In truth, the ‘ I‘ is a transitioning, ever-changing phenomenon. Traits such as Introversion or being a Highly Sensitive Person, for example, are determined by our physical biology’s, while traits such as shyness, self-esteem, ideologies and neuroticism are the result of environmental psychological conditioning. Our personalities are, to a large extent, determined by our environmental conditioning and physical genetics. Two identities who are dwelling within two different physical bodies in the present, or in the past, will be two very distinct personalities. Reincarnation of an ‘individual self’ is only as possible to the extent of believing that your sense of ‘self’ – your ego – is real. ![]()
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