Sunday, January 29, 2012
Rebirth and Liberation
Similar to the view presented in the Bhagavad Gita, Buddhism's central proposal is rebirth and the suffering of continuous life. This proposal is hugely counter intuitive to the western mind, and in fact in some neo-pagan philosophy it is the embracing of eternal life that leads to the end of suffering. Instead of trying to reach enlightenment, one should be happy with and find comfort in rebirth.
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There is indeed an analogy -- Buddhist ideas grew out of the same tradition that gave us Hinduism. But Rebirth in Buddhism is a way of re-interpreting Upanishadic Reincarnation in a psychological, rather than a physical, sense. We'll speak of this more when we read the Dhammapada.
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