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| Hi Curly,
You have to learn if you do not know or if you mix it with Hinduism:
To quote the Buddhist scholar Walpola Rahula: "Buddhism stands unique
in the history of human thought in denying the existence of such a
Soul, Self, or Atman. According to the teaching of the Buddha, the idea
of self is an imaginary, false belief that has no corresponding
reality, and it produces harmful thoughts of 'me' and 'mine'...It is
the source of all the troubles in the world..." [Walpola Rahula, WHAT
THE BUDDHA TAUGHT, Grove Press, 1959, p. 51.]
For the Buddhist there is no "individual enduring personality that is
reincarnated, nor even an individual soul in anything like the Western
sense." [Sanford, SOUL JOURNEY, p. 68.]
If you really knew what Buddhism is this is it....
With compassion,
Puma
Curly H. Wade wrote:
> Puma: (With Compassion)
> Oh Boy previous incarnations and spirits and souls!!!!!!!!
>
> [past lives]
> AN III.15: Rathakara (Pacetana) Sutta - The Chariot Maker
> The Buddha recalls a previous lifetime during which he was a
> chariot-maker:
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> http://accesstoinsight.org/canon/su...03-015-tb0.html
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> [spirits]
> "A householder who observes conduct in accordance with the Dhamma
> ...might reappear in the company of the gods of the Four Kings!'
> it is possible that on the dissolution of the body, after death, he may
> do so."
>
> - Buddha Saleyyaka Sutta
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> [souls?]
> "Is there a self?" or "Is there not a self?"
> these questions being outside ones domain
> and leading the contemplative to vexation [ie, Puma, with compassion]
> rather than release from suffering
> (Ananda Sutta, SN, 5:44, 10).
>
>
> Puma: (With Compassion)
> What a Zen master was this guy
> that he did not know simple things about
> Buddhism yet.
>
> To be attached to a certain view
> and to look down upon others' views as inferior,
> this the wise men call a fetter.
> - Buddha
>
> Puma: (With Compassion)
> You can not be a Buddhist Monk either as to believe such bullies...
>
> In a controversy the instant we feel anger
> we have already ceased striving for the truth,
> and have begun striving for ourselves.
> - Buddha
>
> Puma:
> "With compassion"
>
> In most cases, energy is lost in little games of manipulation, in
> little struggles of will, in the attempts to possess others, to wrap
> them up, to delude them, to shine them on.
> - Zen Master Rama
>
> www.ramaquotes.com
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