15/06/2024
Namo Buddhay🙏
Reincarnation and rebirth
According to Vedic religion, man consists of his body and soul. The body of man ends with his death-- but his soul. His soul is eternal. His soul reincartes in the world in various forms until it attains "moksha" (salvation) i e. union between eternal individual soul and Eternal Universal Soul or Brahma or Creator-God.
According to Buddhism, there is no eternal soul. Everything in the samsara is marked by the three characteristics : anicca (impermanence/change), dukkha (suffering) and anatta (no-soulness). Man consists of his nama and rupa (mind and matter) otherwise of pancaskandha (five aggregates) : rupa (matter), vedana (sensation), sanna (perception), sankhara (mental concomitant) and vinnana (consciousness). Everything of man ends with his death -- but his consciousness. Constant evolution of his consciousness in the samsara based on the character and the force of his karma until it attains Nirvana (liberation) is rebirth. There is no concept of reincarnation and Creator-God in Buddhism.
We are not so familiar with the position of science on the concept of reincarnation and rebirth.
Part of the comment on the above post by Carlos Cheng is given below:
.. The core of Buddhist practice is consciousness. Based on the science of Quantum Mechanics and particle physics, all matters are in the form of waves. Only our consciousness collapses those waves into particles. So our consciousness is the creator of all things that we see. We are constantly in rebirth states. Our cells are constantly replicating and dying. In fact, our DNA holds an oncogene that later becomes cancerous when our immune system gets weaken. We possess mundane consciousness and we are at the mercy of our karma. When we attain Supramundane Consciousness at that time we possess wisdom (enlightenment) and we are able to tell what our previous lives were like the Buddha was able to tell his previous lives through his Jataka tales.
-- Dhamma : The Law of Nature
