Master Hsing Yun explains rebirth in this way: The cycle of Rebirth can be transcended.Only the Alayavijnana (“Store Consciousness”) continues in the cycle of rebirth (last to leave your body and first to arrive in the next body).Alayavijnana is the force, or energy, which creates rebirth.Karma: Actions influence the present and future (actions are stored in the Alayavijinana or “Store Consciousness”).Rebirth happens moment-to-moment and after death.Ignorance creates desire and unsatisfied desire cause rebirth.Concept of “ non self” (anattā in Pāḷi and anātman in Sanskrit) in Buddhism which emphasizes there is no “independent” and “permanent” self.You don’t need a soul, or a self, in order to continue. What you have done and thought is still there as energy. There is no soul, no self, outside of these five, so when the five elements go to dissolution, the karma, the actions, that you have performed in your lifetime is your continuation. When you look into a person, you see five skandhas, or elements: form, feelings, perceptions, mental formations, and consciousness. If you think that there is a soul, a self, that inhabits a body, and that goes out when the body disintegrates and takes another form, that is not Buddhism. That is a very popular, very wrong notion of continuation in Buddhism. Reincarnation means there is a soul that goes out of your body and enters another body. Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh explains the confusion with reincarnation this way: Karma: Past actions influence the present, and present actions influence the future (i.e., you’re punished or rewarded in your next life based on what happened in the past, and vice versa).Your permanent and unchanging “ self” or “ soul” (ātman) is reborn again in a new body. The reason for this confusion, or interpretation, is many to include there is no great ‘English’ translation from the original texts.īriefly, here is the difference: Reincarnation / Transmigration These are two completely different topics, which confuse Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike. Hope you are sitting down for this, but reincarnation (or ‘transmigration’) does not exist at all in Buddhism.īut I’m sure you have heard Buddhists talking about “reincarnation” or “rebirth”. Oh, Bhikshu (Monks), every moment you are born, decay, and die.
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