DWQA Questions › Tag: rebirthFilter:AllOpenResolvedClosedUnansweredSort byViewsAnswersVotesEternal life is often portrayed as something to get to, a destination that lies in our future, but wouldn’t a wiser perspective be to think of one’s existence not at the beginning of eternity, or the end of eternity, but right smack in the MIDDLE of it?ClosedNicola asked 4 years ago • Human Potential321 views0 answers0 votesOne conundrum is that eternity itself is never static. Many believe that everything that will ever exist already exists. But is it truer to say that all of eternity is itself “reborn anew” with fresh ideas that alter ALL of eternity—past, present, and future? So the saying, “There is nothing new under the sun,” is in fact not true at all, or is it? What can Creator share on this conundrum?ClosedNicola asked 4 years ago • Human Potential360 views0 answers0 votesThe problem of atheism presents another vexing dilemma. Most atheists hardly appear “indifferent” when asked about God, which would be their emotional state if they truly disbelieved fully in God and creation. Rather, they often come across as angry and rebellious and even spiteful. And they especially reject the notion of eternal life, perhaps more vehemently than any other, as if rejecting it would make it personally less real for them. Is it eternal life, or eternal damnation that is their foundational fear? Is rejecting the existence of eternal life really to remove the danger of eternal damnation along with it?ClosedNicola asked 4 years ago • Human Potential374 views0 answers0 votesPeople tell themselves often that “we only live once” and use that as an excuse to pursue hedonistic pleasures at the expense of wisdom. Just how important is it to focus on the bigger picture of existence, and not waste one’s time with frivolities?ClosedNicola asked 4 years ago • Human Potential361 views0 answers0 votesWe may have eternity to “get it right,” but if we’ve learned anything from Creator, it would be the height of foolishness to waste valuable time through complacency, simply because we have been given an eternity to work with. How can we balance in our minds the confidence that we will go on no matter what, while recognizing that urgent action of critical importance is needed? How does the wise person reconcile this dilemma?ClosedNicola asked 4 years ago • Human Potential321 views0 answers0 votesIt seems the urgency is all about HEALING. That we have a rare and magnificent opportunity to invoke and experience problem resolution like never before, but like our endless television commercials never tire of reminding us, it’s for a “limited time only.” Can Creator share how we can “seal the deal” with prayer work and the Lightworker Healing Protocol so that eternity is full of joy and wonder rather than suffering and drudgery?ClosedNicola asked 4 years ago • Human Potential569 views0 answers0 votesA practitioner asks: “As a longtime Buddhist practitioner and now a mindfulness teacher myself, I continue to struggle with trying to make sense of some of the core teachings in Buddhism. One of the three “marks of existence” that all Buddhist practices are centered around understanding through increasingly direct and deep insight/realizations on the path to enlightenment is “no self” or “not self” (annata), which includes that there is no such thing as a permanent, unchanging entity or “soul.” It is said that in his quest for enlightenment, the Buddha looked deeply for the “housebuilder,” the one behind the whole thing, this experience of “I, me, myself,” the doer, and he couldn’t find one, and found instead that all phenomena, including the experience of a fixed entity called a self or soul, were simply the result of interdependent causes and conditions coming together temporarily, including even consciousness itself, which arises temporarily to meet with sensory experiences (which includes the 6th sense of mind) and that this consciousness we experience, too, dies with the body. Of course, there is something that experiences rebirth, as Buddhism was very, very clear on that … Since the goal, enlightenment, involves the ONLY permanent death … The cessation of rebirth. One of my primary teachers stated that what gets reborn is not a “soul,” but our “habits.” I am really hoping that Creator can shed some light on these things, since the teachings of the Buddha are what I resonate with the most, and yet I am also an LHP practitioner and do believe in the divine realm and love the idea of having/being an “immortal soul.” The LHP itself I do see as basically a lovingkindness/compassion/sympathetic joy/equanimity (Divine Abodes) practice, and therefore an extension of Buddhist practice. I accept that especially because the teachings of the Buddha were not written down until hundreds of years after his death that they could have become corrupted, and that given the depth of dark manipulation on Earth they most certainly were. However, this teaching, that there is no soul, that there is no self, is basically THE most important teaching in all of Buddhism. The Suttas (sacred ancient Buddhist texts) quote the Buddha as saying, “Nothing whatsoever is to be taken as I, mine, myself. Whoever has understood this has understood all the teachings.” How are we to make sense of this?”ClosedNicola asked 4 years ago • Religions472 views0 answers0 votesWas the story reported in 2010 about the woman in Australia, Kate Ogg, whose premature newborn son, Jamie, had died after resuscitation efforts but came back to life, an actual raising of the dead? If so, how and why did this happen?ClosedNicola asked 4 years ago • Prayer387 views0 answers0 votesWas the story reported in 2010 about the woman in Australia, Kate Ogg, whose premature newborn son, Jamie, had died after resuscitation efforts but came back to life, an actual raising of the dead? If so, how and why did this happen?ClosedNicola asked 6 years ago • Transition (Crossing Over)616 views0 answers0 votes
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