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**xsVfF9Em** · 07-11-2012, 07:05 PM

how you can examine reincarnation in the perspective of the mind being placed free from self-belief or self-conception.

i am not sure one can

. buddha described when the mind abides free from self-belief:

Now, monks, knowing thus and seeing thus, would you run after the past, thinking: 'Were we in the past? Were we not in the past? What were we in the past? How were we in the past? Having been what, what were we in the past'?

Knowing thus and seeing thus, would you run after the future, thinking: 'Shall we be in the future? Shall we not be in the future? What shall we be in the future? How shall we be in the future? Having been what, what shall we be in the future'?

Knowing thus and seeing thus, would you be inwardly perplexed about the immediate present, thinking: 'Am I? Am I not? What am I? How am I? Where has this being come from? Where is it bound'?

MN 38

07-11-2012, 07:05 PM	#29
xsVfF9Em Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 439 Senior Member	how you can examine reincarnation in the perspective of the mind being placed free from self-belief or self-conception. i am not sure one can . buddha described when the mind abides free from self-belief: Now, monks, knowing thus and seeing thus, would you run after the past, thinking: 'Were we in the past? Were we not in the past? What were we in the past? How were we in the past? Having been what, what were we in the past'? Knowing thus and seeing thus, would you run after the future, thinking: 'Shall we be in the future? Shall we not be in the future? What shall we be in the future? How shall we be in the future? Having been what, what shall we be in the future'? Knowing thus and seeing thus, would you be inwardly perplexed about the immediate present, thinking: 'Am I? Am I not? What am I? How am I? Where has this being come from? Where is it bound'? MN 38
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