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**PrareeLor** · 11-15-2010, 01:55 AM

My view is the rebirth teachings promote morality, as suggested in MN 117, and are spoken for a certain audience (which excludes 'the brahmana').

My view it is incorrect of us to diminish the Buddha's compassion and think he did not offer teachings for ordinary people.

The rebirth teachings are spoken in a language by which the meaning is created by the listener or the reader.

But are such teachings relevant anymore? In particular the West in the 21st century? In the Buddhas time people readily accepted such notions, hence why he sometimes taught in line with it. However in the West today more and more people wont take to such notions but the Buddhas own teachings are hidden behind the Rebirth/Reincarnation morality teaching

11-15-2010, 01:55 AM	#3
PrareeLor Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 400 Senior Member	My view is the rebirth teachings promote morality, as suggested in MN 117, and are spoken for a certain audience (which excludes 'the brahmana'). My view it is incorrect of us to diminish the Buddha's compassion and think he did not offer teachings for ordinary people. The rebirth teachings are spoken in a language by which the meaning is created by the listener or the reader. But are such teachings relevant anymore? In particular the West in the 21st century? In the Buddhas time people readily accepted such notions, hence why he sometimes taught in line with it. However in the West today more and more people wont take to such notions but the Buddhas own teachings are hidden behind the Rebirth/Reincarnation morality teaching
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