Re: Reincarnation
From: namducnguyen (namducnguyen_at_shaw.ca)
Date: 08/02/04
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Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 09:24:56 GMT
Owen Jacobson wrote:
>On Mon, 02 Aug 2004 00:13:27 -0700, Lee Reynolds wrote:
>
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>>Bill Taylor wrote:
>>
>>
>>>What is the point of re-incarnation if you can't remember your past
>>>lives?
>>>
>>>Or rather, what is the point of CALLING it re-incarnation? If a person
>>>is re-incarnated but can't remember any detail of his past life(s),
>>>what is the point of saying it's the same person? It may as well be
>>>someone else altogether, or someone completely new.
>>>
>>>
>>Well what else would you have someone call it? I wasn't aware that the
>>term "reincarnation" implied that anyone would remember anything.
>>
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>Reincarnation means that the same person comes back to life in a new body.
>His point is that, if the "reincarnated" person remembers nothing and acts
>differently as a result, can they really be said to be the same person?
>And if not, is reincarnation an appropriate term?
>
>
Leaving the question of "the same person" aside, reincarnation is still
an appropriate term:
the previous life and the current one are linked by what is known as
"karma", according
to Buddhism.
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