2017
A midwife gets unexpected news from her father's old mistress.
117 min
CLEAR ALL
Simply the mind continues, because as we’ve discussed in previous times, the mind is a stream of awareness which is not generated from physical causes.
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For most of us, the journey of the soul from death to birth is determined mainly by our karma―the actions we perform in the interval between birth and death.
Karma has become a household word in the modern world, where it is associated with the belief in rebirth determined by one’s deeds in earlier lives. This belief was and is widespread in the Indian subcontinent as is the word “karma” itself.
Karma has become a popular term in the West, often connected with somewhat naive or deterministic ideas of rebirth and reincarnation or equated with views of morality and guilt. Chögyam Trungpa unpacks this intriguing but misunderstood topic.
Eastern traditions have complex views on how karma affects your life.
Karma and rebirth are often treated as Buddhism’s cultural baggage: a set of Indian beliefs that—either because the Buddha wasn’t thinking carefully, or because his early followers didn’t stay true to his teachings—got mixed up with the dharma even though they don’t fit in with the rest of...
In The Big Book of Reincarnation, Roy Stemman attempts to answer one of the big questions of existence: Is death the end? Or, is it the merely the end of a chapter in the book of existence? A self-described “skeptical believer,” Stemman uses his skills as a professional journalist to perform...
A discussion of rebirth with regard to the spiritual evolution of humanity, and of karma and the concepts of freedom, justice, will, and consequence as part of a wider understanding of karma.