so in conclusion buddhism can be summarised as

• An Eternal Now

  28 Nov 06, 14:31

  Originally posted by Herzog_Zwei:

  Prove to me everyone has a past life.

  That's like asking... prove to me that everyone has a brain.. so if current technology doesn't have some sort of high tech scanner, then what, dig out everyone's brains?
  
  And it's not that cannot prove that everyone has past life. There are many researchers that have done research on past life and have evidence that past life do occur.. but as to "prove everyone", that's possible only if those people are willing to partake in the experiment themselves and try to recall their past lives through deep meditative absorption.
  
  Everyone can do the experiment and find out themselves - meditation. Like I said, when dealing with different things, we must use different approach.
  
  

  Originally posted by Thusness:

  Hi Casino_King,
  
  It is inadequate to use rational thought to understand spiritual matters. Logic is only that branch of philosophy that deals with reasoning. It does not deal with all types of thinking such as remembering (Recalling past life included), dreaming (Dream Yoga), day dreaming, neurosis, learning..etc. These other types of thinking are the job of psychology and parapsychology.
  
  Although evidence is needed to serve as a base for inductive and deductive reasoning, full proof evidence to arrive at a certain conclusion is not necessary in logical analysis. In daily life, not all reasoning attempts to provide conclusive evidence for the truth of a given conclusion and more often than not, conclusive evidence cannot be produced. For pragmatic ground, we merely want the evidence we arrived at be 'well founded'.
  
  As human, sleeping and dreaming took up pretty much percentage of our life. We are not just a rational being, to understand human, we have to deal with all these matters with spiritual issues included.