can one be reborn into 2 or more bodies?
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thus i read from Venerable Master Hsuan Hua(?) who did say, yes.
like u watch Little Buddha, they found a few lamas of the previous lama.
i am just gathering collective input.
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I think so too.
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is there another me somewhere else in the world?
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Uhh, I'm confused - you mean there's a timeshare agreement between one soul and two bodies?
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I am not Buddhist, so this is just my view.Originally posted by Gedanken:Uhh, I'm confused - you mean there's a timeshare agreement between one soul and two bodies?
What we call 'soul' is not a self... it is more like creative energy that seeks to express its impulses. What we call 'our personality' is the 'sense of self'. It is a continuous stream of thoughts pulsed from the 'soul' that is interfaced with the biological 'form'. Personality is the expression of 'soul'. Just like a radio broadcast station, one 'soul' can pulse into more than one body (radio- 'sense of self').
Also, space, time, physical location, 'sense of self' are illusions. They, in the deepest sense, do not exist. That could be a reason why simultaneous incarnation is possible. -
come back and live in the real world.
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In the Little Buddha movie ,Lama Dorje at his deathbed , wished to fulfil 3 thing, 1 to teach the Dharma in the West , 1 to continue teaching the poor in kathmandu , and 1 to continue the lineage teaching,so he reborn as Norma Jessye ,Raju and Gitar
The Body ,speech and mind reincanrnation.
Well, it is true there are Lama who vowed to be reborn into many reinarnation,
but the exact detail , I wont be able to know the secrets behind ,it is just like tantric Buddhism ,unless the Rinpoche said so ,or else I wont know a thing
Well in Mahayana Buddhism , it is true those Mahasattva can manifest into many forms ,and it is not "dream" .Like in the past ,famous Dharma master
Ven Hsu Yun did encounter the human manifestation of Bodhisattva Manjusri when He went on a pilgrimage to Mt Wutai .
So the answer is ,it is true such thing is possible .
One thing to add ,It is just like Pureland
You wont know how it is like until u went there.
When we are deluded ,we are using human means to measure pheonomena,
but when we are enlighten , everything to us is "suchness"
and I Believe it exist for a Pureland of the Buddhas
Note :Mahasattva is the shortform of Maha Bodhisattva means those
Bodhisattva on the threshold of Buddhahood
like Guanyin
Da shi zhi
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Well, if you are referring to a situation in which 2 or more humans share the same soul,then yes. Its possible. An example could be identical twins. If they share the same hobby , same habits, same likes and also have an unexplained affinity for each other...etc etc, it could be possible that they are from the same soul.
When a person with a "split soul" meets another person who shares the same "split soul" they would experience an unexplained affinity for each other even though they havent met each other before. -
You dunno what is REALity yetOriginally posted by dragg:come back and live in the real world.
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any way to destroy a soul forever and ever?
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If its Bodhisattvas then definitely possible. For example we know Guan Yin have uncountable manifestationsOriginally posted by sinweiy:thus i read from Venerable Master Hsuan Hua(?) who did say, yes.
like u watch Little Buddha, they found a few lamas of the previous lama.
i am just gathering collective input.
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There is also a poem by Maitreya Bodhisattva incarnation Bu Dai monk, who said,
"Maitreya is a real Maitreya, who manifests uncountable transformed bodies.
Constantly he manifests before living beings who are not able to recognise them!' -
care to share with me?Originally posted by longchen:You dunno what is REALity yet 
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Yes there is a way...but it is hardOriginally posted by Ito_^:any way to destroy a soul forever and ever?
Even a soul or a ghost dies or being destroyed...it has 1 more last or final chance to revived at a particular realm (not ghost realm)
You need to go to that realm and destroyed the soul again...only then will the destruction be completed
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If you take 7th Consciousness (self-consciousness) as Soul, it will be permanently destroyed ONLY AFTER ENLIGHTENMENT. But it does not mean you will enter the state of annihilism, because 7th consciousness is only an illusional consciousness. Reality is that of the Buddha - pure awareness, awakening.
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MmM what happen to the 7th ConsciousnessÂ… which store our past memories if able to be reborn into 2 or more bodies?
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Soul splitting technique anyone?
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Really??? is this theory from buddhism....Originally posted by shade343:Well, if you are referring to a situation in which 2 or more humans share the same soul,then yes. Its possible. An example could be identical twins. If they share the same hobby , same habits, same likes and also have an unexplained affinity for each other...etc etc, it could be possible that they are from the same soul.
When a person with a "split soul" meets another person who shares the same "split soul" they would experience an unexplained affinity for each other even though they havent met each other before.
is there such thing as a soulmate?
How abt brother, sisters, cousin who shared same hobbies, liking and even look similar? Aso Possible come from same soul too? -
That is actually the 8th Consciousness, not the 7th Consciousness.Originally posted by Isis:MmM what happen to the Consciousness, the 7th house I thinkÂ… which store our past memories?
However, illusional beings take the 8th Consciousness as SELF, which is wrong. For example you remembered yesterday you did something, and you think 'That was ME doing it!' Therefore you believe in an eternal Self entity... When the 7th consciousness disappears, then 8th consciousness will kind of lose its function
The eighth consciousness would be quite useless without the seventh consciousness. It would be nothing more than a receptacle to take things out of and to put things into. It is through the action of the seventh consciousness that our self-identified karmic seeds are stored, and we are kept moving from life to life in the realm of samsara.
In reality, the essence is beyond time and space, its nature is True Suchness.
We now come to the last skandha, consciousness. I have explained earlier that this is really the eighth consciousness, and that it is the storehouse for the karmic seeds planted by our perceptions, conceptions, and activations. But as I have shown, these perceptions, conceptions, and activations are themselves false and unreal, and thus the seeds that they generate have no real existence. The eighth consciousness, therefore, is really a storehouse of illusions. Nothing within it is real.
The storehouse itself is none other than True Suchness, Buddha-nature. It is itself Buddhahood.
Does this mean that we have already attained Buddhahood? If in fact everything is an illusion, can't we assume that we have achieved all that there is to achieve and that we can do whatever we like? Can we not rob and kill with impunity? Are we not already Buddhas? Is this the point of the sutra?
No, the sutra sets forth a path for us, it does not give us license to do whatever we feel. We must try to free ourselves from illusions, to understand our own minds, and to progress ever higher in the practice. We must be responsible for our actions. We must keep the precepts. We must practice samadhi to attain wisdom, and we must achieve purity of mind. Tathagatagarbha will then be the same as True Suchness. But until we reach the point where our mind is truly undefiled, our Tathagatagarbha will continue to store the karmic seeds of our actions, and we will continue to bear the responsibility for this karma; and we will continue to have perceptions that are rooted in illusion: of happiness, joy, love, hatred, worry, indifference. -
This theory is not from Buddhism as far as I know.Originally posted by Isis:Really??? is this theory from buddhism....
is there such thing as a soulmate?
How abt brother, sisters, cousin who shared same hobbies, liking and even look similar? Aso Possible come from same soul too? -
Eternal Now has explained it ...Originally posted by dragg:care to share with me?
In reality, the essence is beyond time and space, its nature is True Suchness. -
I dunno about this and unsure of this.
Bodhisattva sure can lar. Buddha did split into 2 when he went to heaven to teach dhamma to his mother and many of his disciples didnt know abt it. -
Kage Bunshin no Jutsu =)Originally posted by maggot:Soul splitting technique anyone? -
http://www.kheper.net/topics/Buddhism/Mahayana.htm
The Bodhisattva and Reincarnation
Evgueni Tortchinov
Within the Tibetan Buddhist tradition we must differentiate two types of the reincarnations:
1. the usual one (the interpretation of which has the doctrine of Karma as its foundation) the interpretation of which does not differ much from that of the Theravadins
2. the doctrine of Sprul-sku (read: tool-koo, Sanscrit: nirmanakaya -- magically produced body, or magically transformed body)), i.e. the ability of the bodhisattvas and other saints (arya pudgala) to create by the force of mind special "artificial" bodies to reveal theirselves to the samsaric world by their wiil for the benefit of the living beings.
Thus, Dalai-lama is a sprul-sku of bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, Panchen-lama the sprul-sku of Buddha Amitabha, Bogdo-gegen of Mongolia the spruls-sku of the saint Taranatha, etc. And only such special incarnations can be realised on the levels of mind, speach and body.
Moreover, each bodhisattva by his/her supernatural powers can produce unlimited number of such "magical bodies" and therefore, to be incarnated in several persons (we had seen such a collision in the Bertolucci's "Little Buddha"). In common speach such incarnations are called "incarnated lamas", or even "living buddhas". But ordinary beings move in the wheel of the cyclic existence by the force of their karma keeping the unity of their "santana" -- individual continuality of their psyco-phisical experience. -
But ordinary people is different. Ordinary, unenlightened being, will be reborned according to their individual karma.Originally posted by Isis:MmM what happen to the 7th ConsciousnessÂ… which store our past memories if able to be reborn into 2 or more bodies?But ordinary beings move in the wheel of the cyclic existence by the force of their karma keeping the unity of their "santana" -- individual continuality of their psyco-phisical experience.
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Im not sure if this is from buddhism.Originally posted by Isis:Really??? is this theory from buddhism....
is there such thing as a soulmate?
How abt brother, sisters, cousin who shared same hobbies, liking and even look similar? Aso Possible come from same soul too?
Well, normally the best way to tell whether a person is your soulmate is to look for an unexplained close affinity between you and the person. Both will have this feeling. The situation you described above is also possible.