Unmistaken Child (W/ English subtitles) 2008 (1-11)A Documentary film

Unmistaken Child documents another world. It is a world where events that seem to be the products of belief are actually experienced. A deceased saint chooses to be reincarnated; his devoted assistant is asked to locate a child whose body is now inhabited by the saint. Worlds of knowledge that most of us call superstition are brought into play. What is most astounding is that everyone involved in this challenge agrees that the mission and the saint himself, in whatever form he appears, are sacred, and that finding and bringing him to recognition is, as the young assistant says, "a thousand times more important" than anything else.

Nati Baratz, the Israeli filmmaker responsible for this amazing movie, started out to make a film about a group of Tibetan Jews. That he was drawn into filming the search for the reincarnated saint and willing to devote over five years of work to that effort is testimony to the power of attraction presented by the monks whose search is documented. That some of the highest spiritual leaders alive today, including the Dalai Lama, allowed Mr. Baratz and his crew to film their intimate meetings and sacred rituals testifies additionally to the deep trust these leaders invested in the filmmaker.

We the audience can only watch, perhaps in disbelief, perhaps in reverence of the devotion to task - both the task of locating the reincarnated saint and the task of filming the arduous search. Nothing is asked of us as we watch events unfold. Detail by detail, everything is revealed in its own time. Baratz patiently shows us another way of being, one that challenges and at the same time embraces our Western logic driven frame of reference.

Is this film evidence that those who hold the great spiritual knowledge of the East are willing at last to share their knowledge with us? Or are we simply being shown the chasm that divides us from that knowledge? Has the time come for humanity to awaken from its eternity of sleep? Or are we simply being shown another cultural reality? These are some of the questions viewers might ponder after seeing Unmistaken Child.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Tibet
• reincarnation
• guru
• master
• documentary
• foreign country
• journey
• unmistaken child
• new life
• buddha
• buddhists
• silence
• shiva
• god
• ritual
• aum
• om
• aum mani padme hum
• India
• south india
• north india
• nepal

[Opetlao]

I'm a buddhist the only thing I would speculate is that it seem as though consciouness only recontinue in its country or in the community only. I courious about seeing a documentary about finding the recountinuing of consciousness in different part of the world.

[wooferblogger1]

@Opetlao..... Consciousness is not limited to one object/person. Consciousness has no birth or death, it forever is and continues to be without any difference that goes on in this "awakened state". To say consciousness is born in a certain country or community is saying that consciousness is limited, how can this be so? It simply sounds ridiculous. If you are a buddhist then you should understand this concept. Everyone is consciousness alone, this is our true state.

[Opetlao]

@wooferblogger1 I think you might want to reread my comment again, there's no where in there where i mentioned rebirth.I understood that the consciousness recontinue, but even for a buddhist fallower like me I don't fallow without questions. It is ok to question your own beliefs, in matter of fact the Buddha point out that we should not believe because of tradition, faith, beliefs etc. What I'm pointing out here is that too many often consciousness take recountinuing in its own country.

[wooferblogger1]

@Opetlao.... What country does consciousness have? lol consciousness is limitless. I read your posting correctly and i expounded upon it what you are asking, re read the posting above and think .... for whome is this consciousness arising for an individual being and then if the "I" arises in yourself or "him" arises for a llama then ask who am I? or who that llama really is? If the answer is consciousness, then there is no country for consciousness to rise in. :) :) :)

[Opetlao]

@wooferblogger1 LOL you still missing the point here bro, let me make it clear, you and I are in the same page just different view. I was refering to a lot of Tibet buddhist monk in search of their past lama. But to me it seems as though the recontinuing of the lama consciousness always continuing in the same country where they were at. What I'm saying is exactly what you are saying, consciousness doesn't have reference where to recontinue.

[wooferblogger1]

@Opetlao.... well then it is agreed ;) hahaha <3

[bigfatdick5000]

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[510shyt]

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[falitosis]

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

[biggmoneyme]

i didnt see a footprint inthe ash. i think reincarnation is plausible( some quantum soul maybe) but i think tibetan buddhist have become to "religious" as in too many beliefs

[cartoon2532]

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[miradola]

@Opetlao The lamas can control where they will continue and I think they choose to continue in their country simply because only the Tibetans will understand the concept of reincarnation and will be more willing than people of other beliefs to give up their child to the monastery. Nowadays some lamas reincarnated very far away from their homeland, Vicki Mackenzie's "Reborn in the West" gives quite a thorough account of this, yet, from all I know, they all reborn in Buddhist families

[cartoon2532]

ดิฉันเป็นผู้หนึ่งที่ศรัทธาเรื่­องนี้มาก ขอขอบพระคุณเจ้าค่ะ ที่ได้นำสาระดีๆมาให้ดู

[LucifersArgument]

When you become enlightened, you can choose your body after death.

[MGibsonian]

we must make a differentiation between return and reincarnation...for us wretched intellectual animals are thrown back into samsara while awakened ones can choose to come back out of compassion and help us.

[kamwrites]

Reading the above conversation...if consciousness doesn't have a reference where to go, then why is the reincarnation always found in the community, rather than, say, the savannahs of Africa? Why is the reincarnation not reborn into other places to spread The Buddha's teachings?

[ss333333ss]

The reincarnation of lamas is only started by the kagyu lineage holder Karmapa the first.

It's not part of the original teaching from Shakyamuni Buddha.