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Reincarnation
Reincarnation is the belief that a soul will keep being reborn into new bodies. Depending on the belief, the soul can come back as a plant, animal, or another person. Beliefs on reincarnation are different all over the world. Some religions or cultures do not believe in reincarnation at all, but for others it is a very strong part of their society.
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Why don't Catholics believe in reincarnation?
this is again catholic is a sematic religion. It is controlled by church and a leader. They have strict rules laid by church. I think reincarnation more of a spiritual matter, as catholic is more of religion per say.
Is the idea of passing through many lives to reach the brahman called reincarnation?
The idea of passing trough many lives is so that you may receive enlightenment like the Buddha did but it may take many lives to get there,but you always do.
What is the cycle of reincarnation?
From the Awareness [conscious mind] of an unborn baby to eventual perpertual life.
Reincarnation is the Hindu belief that the individual soul is?
Each person has a soul which will be reborn.
Why do Muslims not believe reincarnation?
No, Muslims do not believe in reincarnation. After death, they believe that angels will come down and ask the deceased three questions. They are "Who is your Lord?", "What is your religion?", and "Who is your prophet?". If the soul of the deceased answers the three questions correctly, then, he or she will rest in peace until the Day of Judgment. If the soul of the deceased answers one of the questions incorrectly, the deceased will be tortured until the Day of Judgment. There are some exceptions if the deceased answers incorrectly. If the deceased was a young child, answering incorrectly will not lead to any torturing. If the deceased was a baby, he or she will be resting in peace without the angels asking any questions.
The Day of Judgment is the day when everyone will be brought back to life by the Will of Allah (Lord). In the day of Judgment, every human, every Jinn, and every other living thing will be questioned by Allah Himself and the good deeds and the sins will be weighed. If a person did more good deeds than sins, Allah will grant him or her to Heaven. If a person did more sins than good deeds, he or she will be sent to Hell if Allah wishes. Allah is so kind that sometimes, He will grant the person who has committed more sins than good deeds to Heaven anyways. The askings for forgiveness when the person was alive will also be taken into acount on the Day of Judgment.
Some people will interpret these events incorrectly. Note that in the Day of Judgment, every deceased person will be resurrected, not reincarnated. People will not be brought back to life as another life form but as the same life form that they were in. The Day of Judgment is also known as the Day of Resurrection, not reincarnation. Also in the Quran, it states "From the (earth) did We Create you, and into it Shall We return you, And from it shall We Bring you out once again." (The Quran, 20:55)". Some people think of this as reincarnation but actually, it means that Allah has created a human out of Earth, and Allah will return the human into the Earth (death), and Allah will revive the human. When Allah revives the human, Allah resurrects him or her when it is the Day of Judgment, not for reincarnation. All of this evidence comes to the conclusion that Muslims do not believe in reincarnation.
What is the progression of Hindu reincarnation?
1- death
2- eat a cheeseburger
3- become fat
4- roll down a hill
5- die of fatness
6- visit weight watchers
Aupmanyav adds: Appreciate the fun answer. Nice. Not in order. It should be: eat many cheeseburgers, become fat, visit weight watchers, roll down the hill, death, reincarnation.
However, I would divide it into six like this: Death, Presentation of accounts before the Lord of Death - Yama, Judgement by Yama according to standard rules (common for hindus as well as non-hindus), Heaven for good deeds, hell for bad deeds, reincarnation.
Does Confucius believe in reincarnation?
Taoism is not a religion it is a way of life,Thus it has no stand on the subject.
Yes
Chinese Taoism openly teaches reincarnation. An important scripture of Taoism, the Chuang Tzu, states:
"Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point. Existence without limitation is space. Continuity without a starting point is time. There is birth, there is death, there is issuing forth, there is entering in. That through which one passes in and out without seeing its form, that is the Portal of God"
Chuang Tzu 23
Taoism does not directly prescribe how or if reincarnation occurs or what if anything reincarnation is. However, i think it is clear that you woke this morning. And so you can assume you will awake again. And i think it is clear that you will fall asleep this evening. And so you can assume you will fall asleep again.
Do Jews believe in reincarnation?
Orthodox Judaism believes in reincarnation, mostly in human from and a little (heaven forbid) into animal form. It has been mentioned by the Jewish Sages in the Midrash (part of the Jewish oral Torah), along with many other sources, that our soul is here to improve the world and achieve closeness to God. If the soul is able to do it all in one life with out ruining anything he/she goes to 'gan eden' (loosly translated as Heaven). If however the person was not able to complete his 'mission', he must go through a cleaning (known in Hebrew as 'gehenom') and down again into another body. This happens again and again until he or she is 'fixed'. There are some 'fixed' souls that come to this world to help others. The Midrash tells us of many cases of reincarnations.
Answer:Rabbi Shmuel Strashun of Vilna, in his Talmud commentary, points out the interesting fact that reincarnation is never mentioned in the Talmud. This may mean that it is a mystical subject not to be elaborated upon publicly; or perhaps that there isn't a consensus regarding it.Do Zen Buddhist believe in Reincarnation?
Yes & No
Taisen Deshimaru, Zen Master & the New Orleans Zen Temple said that Belief in Reincarnation is unimportant.
Only Zazen is important.
I don't think that Zen Buddhist spent much time investigating or thinking about Reincarnation.
Most anyone can attend the New Orleans Zen Temple for a limited time or retreat.
there website is www.nozen.org . . .
Tibetan Buddhist are conditioned from birth that we have had a previous life and will reincarnate.
Belief in Reincarnation has good evidence from the University of Virginia & the 40 years work of Dr. Ian Steveson.
For people who believe in reincarnation, a soul may be reborn in a male or female body. Angels are spirits and are not reincarnated.
What do Hindus believe about reincarnation?
it affects it by being good you will be something higher in the caste system or a animal, and by being bad you will not have such a good after life.
What is hindus beliefs in reincarnation?
Reincarnation is one of the key beliefs in the Hindu religion. Hindus believe that in order the be reincarnated, you must become one with the Hindu god.
Do Buddhists believe in reincarnation after death?
No. Buddhists believe in rebirth. Reincarnation is the passage of the soul from one for to another, there is no soul in Buddhism; rebirth is the result of karmic seeds sown in life.
They believe that there is a circle of birth and if you earn enlightenment the you are taken out of the circle of birth
How can the belief in reincarnation provide a form of social control?
I think reincarnation gives people peace of mind. If you don't achieve what you are meant to in this life you have plenty of opportunity in the next and next etc.
Answer:
If, as an individual, you have thought about it and choose to believe in reincarnation for your own personal reasons, or if any number of people do the same, it is not a form of social control. But this still doesn't answer the question, how it might provide a social control. A belief in reincarnation can only be a social control if it is a deliberate idea instilled in a society. If that were the plan, it's a pretty weak form of social control because it includes a belief that you can do poorly in the life you have, with another chance in the next life. Not exactly a strict control. A belief in reincarnation is not enough, other elements would be needed to control the behavior of a society.
What does reincarnation mean to Buddhist?
There is more than one understanding of what rebirth is according to Buddhism.
In general, a traditional view is that if one is not enlightened in this life, then one still generates "the fruits of one's actions" (the results of karmic actions) and the remaining fruits that have not been applied to this life will be applied in the next life. What exactly gets reborn, in this cosmology, is still debated.
Modern western Buddhism has developed the understanding that when the Buddha spoke about rebirth he was using it as a metaphor -- that what is born and reborn is our created "self" -- the one that gets mistaken for our eternal selves, our "atman", our "soul". It is our created self that keeps us stuck in a cycle of delusion, greed, ill will, ignorance -- a literally "self perpetuating" cycle. When we see this accurately we can practice skills that will help us break out of it.
Is Buddha a reincarnation of Lord Vishnu?
According to the Buddha, he and Vishnu are two different people. There are records of both talking to eaching other:
In the Maha-samya Sutta there was an occasion when the devas from almost all the planes came to see the Buddha when he was dwelling in the Great Wood together with 500 bhikkhus, all of them arahants. The Buddha introduced their names to the monks, Vishnu was one of those present. The Buddha mentioned him by the name Venhu.
The Venhu Sutta shows Vishnu as one of the young devas who came to visit and talked with the Buddha:
At Savatthi. Standing to one side, the young deva Venhu recited this verse in the presence of the Blessed One: " Happy indeed are those human beings attending on the Fortunate One. Applying themselves to Gotama's Teaching, who train in it with diligence."
The Blessed One said: "When the course of teaching is proclaimed by me, O Venhu," said the Blessed One, "Those meditators who train therein. Being diligent at the proper time. Will not come under Death's control."- The Connected Discourse of the Buddha" A Translation of the Samyutta Nikaya by Bhikkhu Bodhi ,page 432)
According to "Hinduism and Buddhism An Historical Sketch" (Vol. 2 page 746) , Sir Charles Elliot who was a British diplomat mentioned that this correlates with the Rig Veda text before Hinduism started. Both texts mentioned that Vishnu and Shiva are minor deities instead of the Lords of the Universe as popularly known by worshippers:
" Vishnu and Rudra (Shiva) are known even to the Rig Veda but as deities of no special eminence. It is only after the Vedic age that they became , each for his own worshippers, undisputed Lords of the Universe…..The Pali Pitakas frequently introduce popular deities , but give no prominence to Vishnu and Siva. They are apparently mentioned under the names of Venhu and Isana, but are not differentiated from a host of spirits now forgotten. ….The suttas of the Digha Nikaya in which these lists of deities occur were perhaps composed before 300 B.C. "- Sir Charles Elliot
Gautama Buddha in Hinduism is viewed as an Avatar of Vishnu.
In the Puranic text Bhagavata Purana, he is twenty fourth of twenty five avatars, prefiguring a forthcoming final incarnation.The text says that his teaching was to mislead "demons". I am not sure why that myth was created.
A number of Hindu traditions portray Buddha as the most recent of ten principal avatars, known as the "Dasavatara" (Ten Incarnations of God). The ten incarnations of Vishnu are: Matsya (fish), Koorma (tortoise), Varaha (boar), Narasimha (the man-lion), Vamana (the dwarf) Parasurama (the angry prince), Rama (the perfect human), Krishna (the divine statesman), Buddha and Kalki (the redeemer of righteousness in the kali Yuga, who is yet to appear).
The Buddhist Dasharatha Jataka (Jataka Atthakatha) represents Rama as a previous incarnation of the Buddha as a Bodhisattva and supreme Dharma King of great wisdom.However, the Jataka mentioned that Krishna was a past life of another person. It is Sariputra, the Buddha's chief disciple.
An influential Vaishnava poet Jayadeva Goswami (13th C AD), in the Dasavatara-stotra section of his Gita Govinda, includes the Buddha amongst the ten principal avatars of Vishnu and writes a prayer regarding him as follows:
O Keshava! O Lord of the universe! O Lord Hari, who have assumed the form of Buddha! All glories to you! O Buddha of compassionate heart, you decry the slaughtering of poor animals performed according to the rules of Vedic sacrifice.
This viewpoint of the Buddha as an avatar who primarily promoted non-violence (ahimsa) remains a popular belief amongst a number of modern Vaishnava organisations, including ISKCON(International Society for Krishna Consciousness).
Which religions teach about reincarnation?
It is Hinduism in India. They believe that at death only the body dies, while the soul goes into the body of another human or animal. Where your soul will go in the next life - up or down on the caste ladder - depends on the way you live now. If you do not live a good life you will be reborn as a pariah or an animal
What Christian religions believe in reincarnation?
As a Christian - I believe that when our body dies, our Awareness [conscious mind] transfers to an unborn baby with memory erased. However, providing we qualify, we transfer directly to another dimension; with our memory intact. Supposedly, a Christian believes that the Bible is God's word. If you believe the Bible is God's word, you cannot believe in reincarnation. Hebrews 9:27 - And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment.
However that being said, it is important to understand that every life lived is a life ended and Hebrews 9:27 refers to that single life only. The life just ended usually did so with the person having left behind effects of actions that the living must endure - either good or bad. Nature's essence is balance and harmony and we are born according to the laws of Nature, so it is unreasonable to expect that a person who has died has escaped from reaping the effects of actions made when alive. It is for this reason that reincarnation is a must. Nature must be harmonized and personalities are afforded many opportunities to learn to live without creating deeds that need incarnation. Once that pure lifestyle has been reached, the task is over and reincarnation becomes no longer necessary for the pilgrim soul who is united with his-her Father in Heaven - so to speak.
What is the code for the safe in the game reincarnation on ourworld?
Yellow, Pink, White (it's the colors not on the painting)
Which type of Buddhism believed in reincarnation?
Not all Buddhists believe in reincarnation. The Buddha did not teach reincarnation, although it is part of the doctrine of some Buddhist traditions.
The Buddha spoke of 'rebirth' in some teachings. This is understood by some to refer to a new start in the present lifetime, not the beginning of a new life after death.
The idea of reincarnation may have been absorbed into Buddhism from Hinduism, which does recognize and believe in reincarnation.
Which diciples saw Jesus after his reincarnation?
Jesus wasn't reincarnated He was resurrected and all disciples except Judas Iscariot saw Him. (Judas hanged himself after betraying Jesus).
How does reincarnation effect Hindus life?
It effects not only Hindu's, but everyone on this planet. We can all relate to Karma even if you don't want to believe it, it's the most logical explanation as to why one person is living good and the other isn't. Reincarnation is when a soul takes another body.
In other religions you get one chance then you go to hell or heaven. Most likely hell though.
In Hinduism and Buddhism and other Dharmic religions, one gets unlimited chances to live a good life. Afterward they reside with God for eternity. There is no hell.
Hell and Heaven are on this planet and other planets of life. There are higher and lower planets where life is better or worse. Heaven in Christianity is just a higher planet, you still suffer because you will miss those who must go to hell. and you still feel hunger except you have food with you. You still get tired, but you have the most comfortable bed to sleep on. You still feel thirsty but you have rivers of milk and honey and wine to drink from.
Reincarnation helps the soul find it's way to the one place where suffering never exists anymore. It's called salvation or Moksa.
What is the belief that a person is reborn as another person or animal?
The belief that a person is reborn as another person or animal is reincarnation.
