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Hi Vajradhara. Thanks for taking the time to explain all this. It has helped me understand this a bit more. I don't pretend to be perfectly clear about this and a few other Buddhist concepts, but I try not to worry about it too much!. As an approach to these problems, I incline towards the...

This is where I get confused..this all sounds like reincarnation, not rebirth. If I am choosing my next form, if my next life is determined by my previous lives, then surely there must be something continuous about me that survives death and goes on to experience the consequences of my...

Hi Earl. Thanks for the reply. I agree. Most things I've aimed for, or been told to aim for, it's ended in one of two ways. Either i get what I want, then find I 've lost some purpose in my life, which needs to be replaced by working towards getting something else. Or I fail to get what I...

Rather than give up things I like or want, I've found that my desire for such things has diminished. I'd put that down to practice. To give up stuff you really have a craving for, and endure the discomfort, might be less fruitful than working on eliminating the craving. I'm lucky in that I...

There's a lot of common ground, but I was initially attracted to Zen because of it's emphasis on practice over scriptures, ceremony and all other religeous paraphernalia, and stuck with it. I went to a few talks and guided meditation sessions at the local NKT centre, and a day course, so perhaps...

Interesting work. It seems to be pointing to the idea that all of our thoughts, feelings, experiences, things that make up our personality, can be boiled down to changes in brain chemistry and electromagnetic activity. Perhaps this is all we are. As far as Buddhism goes, I feel this sort of...

I've been meditating on and off for over a year. I started by visiting a NKT centre, now I lean more towards the soto zen tradition. I manage to sit for between 10 and 40 mins almost every day. If I understand what I've been taught, I'm not expecting any mystical or magical experiences. It's all...