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The Wheel of Rebirth

Rebirth

Most young people today slight and look down on the question of rebirth. These disbelievers of rebirth are not necessary living in a higher level. They are actually shallow and ignorant. Denying the existing of rebirth does not obstruct others, it only limits our own life. Without rebirth, there is no past and there is no future. A life without future, existence is so short and vain. The future is so hopeless. When we face a great obstacle, we can encourage ourselves, 'It is okay, another ten years then it will be my turn.' Even when criminal steps on the execution chair, they can still say, 'Another twenty years, there will be another tough man'. With rebirth, human existence has maneuvering rooms. With rebirth, pledge and wish can eventually be fulfilled. With rebirth, life has the next train available.

The phenomenal world cannot be separated from rebirth. Good or evil existences in the six realms are rebirth. Life and death are rebirth. The physical world changes naturally. There is the change of the four seasons. There is the time cycle of past, present and future. There is the twenty four hours a day. They are rebirth in term of times. There is change of directions. There is the movement from here to there. These are rebirth in term of space. Everything around us is the product of rebirth. The wind gathers the clouds. Rains fall to the ground. It evaporates back into clouds again. This is a phenomenon of rebirth. Automobile burns gasoline. It generates energy and produces carbon dioxide. It is absorbed by plants. Plants decay back to natural oil deposit. This is also rebirth. The light comes on, and then turns off. It then turns back on again. This is rebirth too.

All physical changes in the universe are rebirth. A person's birth, mature and death are also rebirth. According to scientific research, the human body is renewed every seven years. In another word, the seven-year metabolism has given us a total new body. According to Buddhism, all creatures from advance to rudimentary, all their perceptions and cognition, are changing constantly. Physical changes are birth, age, sick and die. Mental changes are forming, stay, change and vanish. Existence is dynamic. It is like a wheel. It is therefore called the wheel of rebirth. Besides, even family relationship, economic association, emotion up and downs, they are all just phenomenon of rebirth. Buddhism is to teach us the truth of rebirth in the six realms. Human existence is dynamic and with in rebirth. The pace may be different. The slow changes are called 'existing and extinction' or 'changing and differentiating'. The fast changes are called 'cycle of rebirth'. All beings create karma as a result of their thoughts. It forms the connection between cause and effect. It forms the endless and beginningless river of life. It gives rise to the life form of celestial, human, spirit and animal. Master SOUND-YIN in his 'Inspiration to pledge for Bodhicitta' said, 'I and all beings, from time since eternity, trap in rebirth and cannot be liberated. Heaven and earth, here and there, in many forms, rise and fall.' Yet, this profound and important law of rebirth is not accepted by so many ignorant beings. No wonder ancient masters exalted, 'Only the Buddha and scriptures could expose such profound truth.' Rebirth is a religious theory. It is not an escape for psychological comfort. It is a precision science that explain our existence from past into the future. With a correct understanding of rebirth, we examine our life intelligently. Buddhism's view on rebirth and reincarnation can be summarized into the following four points.

1. The value of rebirth

If we accept and believe in the idea of rebirth, what value does it bring? What meaning does it add to our existence? Rebirth extends our existences. Life is beyond only a hundred year. Life is full of hope and possibility. In rebirth, death is the beginning of another existence. It is like a torch. When one stick of wood is exhausted, there will be another, one after the other. Each stick may be different in component. Yet, the flame will continue to burn. Rebirth is also like a lamp. The oil may be exhausted. Another lamp can be lighted. One lamp after another, it gives brightness in the darkness of existence. We exist with in the six realms, as Henry or Jack. We may be in heaven or earth. We may have many different forms. Yet, the flame of life is eternal. The lamp of wisdom is endless. Rebirth connects us with the universe. Our existence is also timeless. Rebirth is the meaning of existence. We passed our experience, wisdom and history from one generation to the next. If we cannot hand down our experience, then work has no meanings. If we cannot pass down our culture, history will be very short.

Some people said, 'Everyone is equal in front of the law'.

Yet, even the strictest law has loophole. Buddhism believes only in front of rebirth that all are equal. King and noble, commoner and beggar, everyone must face the cycle of rebirth. There is a poem, 'The greatest justice of in the world is white hair. It will appear even on the head the noblest.' Time is the fairest judge. Birth, age, sick and death are the most just jury. Cause and result, rebirth and reincarnation, are not controlled by the Yama judge, nor the creator god. Event is determined by a being's confused deeds. It reacts with the ripen conditions according to the stored karma. It effects a variety of happy and painful rewards. Therefore, it is written in the scripture, 'Millions of millennium may passed. Karma does not vanish. When the condition is ripened. One must bear one's action.' In the rebirth of the six realms, being intelligent or dump, rich or poor, they are all the products of our past deeds. There are people attending college as children. They are what the society called talent. Talent is not a product of this life. It is accumulated from past lives. It too is a form of rebirth. Rebirth liberates us from the hand of divine power. Our karma controls rebirth. Heaven and gods cannot give us fortune or bring us disaster. We are our own master. We taste our own medicine. From the viewpoint of rebirth, every being is free and equal. Happiness and fortune are the products of our own hands. Misery and tragedy are also self made. A creator cannot protect us from crime. God cannot take away our merits either. In front of rebirth, cause and result, there is no luck. We are our own creator.

Live must be spinning like a wheel. We must progress forward. Sins are also like the spinning wheel. With time, we can repent and amend. Rebirth, it can give us so much hope. The winter may be long and cold, the warm spring will come. Rebirth is not a word game for argument. It is not a matter of belief it or not. Rebirth is all around us. We can examine the universe, nature, society, science, even you and me, everything is within the swirl of rebirth. How can we understand rebirth calmly? How can we escape rebirth and the three realms? How can we change the wheel of rebirth to the Dharma wheel of the Buddha? This is all a matter of wisdom.

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Comment from julia for The Wheel of Rebirth
i belive that rebirth is true, because i feel so...
Comment from Nihar Sharma for The Wheel of Rebirth
I am confused as i have met two people whose approach to life is 100% similar. They have the same hand movements same facial expression. Both have had identical interactions with me. They use similar words. is there any research that can be done.
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