rencarnation and memory

Consieness is linked with memory because without memory we would only be living for one moment not having time to think.1 second is the past allready and you can never have that moment back.How then can we be rencarnated if we do not rember our past life.Memory is part of you and it makes you who you are.Any thoughts?.....

 

Wow nice thoguths sir. Umm. the Present moment holds inevitible truths every topic. When we feel the we a denying these truths we call it our conscince. Maybe?

 

thanks

 

I think it has a lot to do with recognising the difference between the true self and the false self.

Also, in Buddhism, all things but the truth are considered impermanent. Is this not true of most memories as well as physical objects? As we grow older, we gradually become less and less able to remember certain things.

 

Im talking about the memory that make you you not as in "I had a birth mark when I was 5"

 

But is the individual not merely an illusion anyway?

 

I dont think we as individuals are illusions.The world we precive to be "are" world is a illusion.We all walk around in a "real world" but the world in fornt of our eyes is an illusion.

 

no, the physical world is not an illusion, it is. What is our illusion is that we break it up into smaller pieces, when it is, in fact, one supreme organism.

(Panthesist ideas)

 

Then whats the point of living if your just going to rebirthed again and repeat your mistakes because you cant remeber anything form your past life?If there is no self then who am I then who are you?

 

Just because you've forgotten something doesn't mean that it never happened.

Today the the Sci-Fi channel had an episode on re-incarnation. Some people had memories which of things they could not have known about, like the painter who remembered painting a certain portrait, only to see an exact painting in a museum.

The painting was being shown for the first time since 1912 and there are no known books which have reproductions.

He looked into the life of the painter and he had been married to two women. In this life he was married to two women with the same names as the painter had been married to.

 

but its like say some one has lost his memory......what if he wakes up a toataly different person.Thats all I am saying.With all my memoery gos my personality....

 

To try get you somewhere
I would say that often eastern people recognize major "mind - spririt" that incarnates sometimes thru history

Read the story of Padma Sambhava and Its (His) "tertöns" that discover messages he left in the real world for us to discover thru history

Many incarnations come from the same source in that case
Could it even be more general and apply for all of us

The phrase "remember past lives" made me smile, so i wrote this and I continue:

Memory is not an useful tool to find the now
Often I have the feeling I have to "write" in my memory so that I can use that later
It means you also can choose to not "write" so to not remember

I am not sure that with your memory goes all your personality, Art Delfo
actually I think it is kinda "wrong" to say that.

There is something in the air, to be felt and seen
There are signs, certainly everywhere of what we really are

To say the truth my dreams experience let me tell you that it is possible for one to have intuition for himself and for others, I mean you can experiment what an other being experimented or experiment (i mean living or...)

You do not use memory to be,
when you hungry you go pick something in the fridge right?
Do you need to remember something to act, no

What is a personality then Art Delfo?

I assure you, one can be an human and live, think something about it and not to remember it later,
One choose to remember,
you choose to think about the past

 

But I want to stay who I am.........part of it has been shaped by my life exprence so far.

 

Trust that part

Blessings

 

If no one remebers something and there is no evidence to show it happend did it happen?Even things that are gone leave behind some kind of evidence that it was there.And therefore we remeber it.Memorey is merly a record.That record has a great impact on you and shapes you.Would you lose yourself with it if it went away?

 

If no one remebers something and there is no evidence to show it happend did it happen?

To remember something is, to me, already an interpretation
An interpretation of what is.

Would you lose yourself with it if it went away?

Yes I would, I would lose the perception of myself thru history,

As I said it is accurate to see that there is a moment in the now that you use to remember, yuo are acting doing this
the moment in the now when you need to remember, you "recall" something.

But it wouldn't change anything for me to live the now of my life

"What you owns possess you"

Love

 

I dont mean that


I mean like

people change as they go through life
their exprence shapes their personality
a person who may have been nice through a bad exprence become mean
in this way memorey shapes who you are
I was once social
now I am shy
If I were to lose what makes me who I am
I would not be me
being you is one of the most important things
if you are not yourself then who are you?
When rebirthed as a dumb baby or animal
you would be a differnt person with a clean slate
no infulence
you are a differnt person
you have lost yourself in death
but then whats the point of ever living?