Sujith
October 12, 2018, 8:12pm
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Sorry, I didn’t mean to imply such a thing !
I had a couple of posts in mind. From last year’s essay:
One of the important aspects of the Dhamma is that it is verifiable, ehipassika. If the Buddha discovered rebirth, one would expect this to happen to others too, even in the present day. If one has been a Buddhist monk for over twenty years, as I have, it is almost guaranteed that you will have met people, or at least heard of some, who claim to know that there is rebirth. From personal experience I can say it makes a big impact when someone with strong integrity and credibility tells you to your face that there is rebirth – not that they believe in it, but that they know it as a reality. When this happened to me, I found it impossible to reject it out of hand. It was impossible to reject it because I knew the personal qualities of the people involved. I recognise that this is very personal and that others may find it hard to relate to it. Yet on a personal level such things matter enormously. We are all swayed by authority one way or another; it’s just a matter of who we accept as authorities.
And the post in which you made clear that the Vinaya places limits on public speech: Rebirth, rebirth, rebirth - #268 by Brahmali
But the straightforward advice that the path of renunciation and meditation is all that is required to steer one’s mind away from the stagnation of scepticism and doubt regarding rebirth, and attain personal knowledge, resonated strongly with me.
Hope this clarifies things and again, my apologies if my earlier post implied something else…
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