Life after Death and Reincarnation

3rd Mini Interview with Brad Warner: Life After Death and Reincarnation.
In a series of mini interviews Brad Warner answers basic questions about Buddhism, Zen and Dogen.
More info at:
http://www.dogensanghalosangeles.org
http://hardcorezen.blogspot.com
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid...
Filmed by Jan Becker, www.bluetreeproductions.com

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• Life after Death
• Reincarnation
• Brad Warner
• Buddhist
• Buddha
• Buddhism
• Zen
• Dogen Sangha Los Angeles
• Dogen
• Jan Becker
• Blue Tree Productions

[smithjamesthomas]

It is so funny to see a bunch of wannabe Buddhists having cat fights on Youtube. Sheep, all of them.

[bonzotracker]

@Tokagawa89

but if your talking about my soul i don't believe that it is personal i would like to believe that it is part of a collective that is far greater than any individual and any one person but the more in tune to the collective you are the more your life gains purpose in what ever environment you live in

no soul can live with out its partners

[DiGiTaLdAzEDM]

Buddhism does believe in cause and effect.All events as causes have an ensuing effect that corresponds perfectly to the original cause.We live within a process based reality, or universe. My mind and all of it's memories, inclinations etc.are also a process which can not suddenly come to a dead stop. All of that must also have an ensuing effect or effects like all processes. However, the possible effects--the nature of the next step in the process is unknown. Many possibilities can be imagined.

[DiGiTaLdAzEDM]

Popular religious culture may suggest a person being reborn as a new person as the next step, serving as a kind of wish fulfillment or a warning. Other possibilities can be suggested. David Bohm--a famous Physicist of the twentieth century--had suggested the possibility of an information field where the outcome of all events including individual lives would be collected. Because the field is thus changing each ended life as an ongoing process/cause has an effect on this dynamic reality.

[squamish4244]

@ronnyboy6o You as well!

[ronnyboy6o]

@squamish4244 Thanks, I agree. They are also only relevant to the life, and the one who is experiencing (you). I believe what we truly are only experiences this life as a dream for the sake of having the experience of forgetting. It was never born and it will never die, it only has the experience. have a nice day!

[squamish4244]

@ronnyboy6o "Birth and death are expressions of life." - Chogyam Trungpa's last letter to his disciples

[squamish4244]

I find reincarnation helps to explain some of the more difficult to understand facets of people's personalities, and unlike Warner I think that science may one day be able to conclusively prove it exists (or not). My background is in Tibetan Buddhism where reincarnation is a strongly held belief and I do believe the accounts of highly advanced practitioners who claim to remember past lives. But it's still just another concept that ultimately must be let go of, like any other.

[Ryokushindo]

@ronnyboy6o Thank you for sharing your opinion. Have a great day too!

[ronnyboy6o]

@Ryokushindo For some it is & for others it isn't, its just an opinion. To me the true nature of reality & your role in the universe is really important & only through experience can we have even a tiny glimpse of what that really is, but when, or if, you do ever have that experience, it becomes natural to believe that there is life after death. have a nice day!

[Ryokushindo]

@ronnyboy6o Is it so important to believe?

[ronnyboy6o]

If you don't believe in 'life' after death, it is only because of your definition of life.