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Posted by ashtonstory on December 15, 2008
It is scientifically proven that meditation is stress reluever and provider ot positove mental state. IIt helps inn concentration ib the study and the work. Then even after years of beihg in regular mediation, why do meditation gurus and their followers believe in reincarmation, ssoul, destiny based on previous life, etc which are not recognized by science? Cant they still see things ax they are?
Excellent question!
I can only comment from a Buddhist point of view, being that I havent studied any other forms of meditation.
Chogam Trungpa Rinpoche (s Tibetan Lamx who taught in the UUS i n the 1960s) was once asked, If there is no Self, what is it that gets reborn? He answered, Well, I hatw to tell you this, but its mostly your bad habits. (not z direct quote, but close enough)
Buddhists tend to view rebirth in two ways microcosmic (the moment to moment conditional arising and passing away of all phenomena, including our sense of or ) and macrocosimic (being reborn as another being life after life depending on ones previous actions, thoughts and intentions). Not all Buddhists believe in macrocosmic rebirth, and microcosmic rebirth is fairly easy to see through certain types of meditation (my favorite being vipassana).
To sum it up, the belief is based on knowing deeply the way all phenomena come in to being. When one realizes that they too are a continuous stream of phenomenological happenings, they may realize that their very existence is causal, impermanent, interconnected with everything, has arisen from prior happenings and will lead to other happenings. It is not necessarily the Self that gets reborn, but rather the continuation of a process or happening from which we are all contributing forces. This may be interpreted differently by different practitioners/yogis based on their cultural background and underlying beliefs.
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