Understanding Karma and Rebirth
A Buddhist Perspective
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| Author(s) : St Ruth, Diana |
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| Want this item sent to you today? Place your order by 14:00 (UK time) and we will despatch this item to you today. | | ISBN : 094667230X | | EAN : 9780946672301 | | Cover : Paperback | | Pages : 204 | | Size : 228 x 152mm | | Publisher : Buddhist Publishing Group | | Published : 2008 |
Category : General Buddhism
Category 2 : Western Buddhist Practice
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Synopsis:
New edition. An introduction to the subject of karma and rebirth written by a Western Buddhist. Rebirth and reincarnation are generally accepted realities in the East and have been since ancient times. What the next life will be is usually the question rather than whether it will be. In the West, on the other hand, we have our own religious and secular beliefs which usually do not include living another life, or at least not in this world or in this way. A common idea amongst Westerners is that annihilation is an unavoidable fact: "When you're dead you're dead". But unless one wakes up to the truth of it - East or West - one is caught in cultural conditioning and personal beliefs.
"Buddhism is about becoming aware of what life actually is rather than being blinded by beliefs and conditioning. The Buddha saw life as a changing procession of conditions, events, and circumstances, one thing leading to another without beginning or end, timeless and limitless. And he recognized that the part of ourselves which is aware, which sees and knows, is never born and never dies. He spoke of a direct "seeing" into the nature of existence beyond words, beyond the intellect. Understanding the cause and effect process - the nature of karma and rebirth - and what lies behind it is the underlying message of the book." Diana St Ruth.
Formerly published as Karma, Reincarnation and Rebirth.
"The assertion that nothing precedes birth or follows death is largely taken for granted in the West. But, however widely believed, it is still absurd from a Buddhist viewpoint. Such an assertion rests on the blind assumption - in its own way an act of faith - that life, of all things in the universe, operates in a vacuum. It asks us to believe that this one phenomenon, the invigoration of supposedly inert matter, springs out of nowhere and just as miraculously disappears without a trace. Most people who hold such views consider themselves 'rational'..." Diana St Ruth, quoting Philip Kapleau. |
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