Topics Include: 1) The Buddha’s statement on rebirth, reincarnation, and the different realms of existence. 2) Joseph Goldstein’s “willing suspension of disbelief.” 3) Other ways of understanding transmigration and alternative realms. 4) The issue of Eternalism and Annihilationism: what is it that actually transmigrates from lifetime to lifetime? 5) Sankharas and their influence in our lives. 6) The power of brining our unconscious beliefs and habits into the light of conscious awareness. 7) The meaning of the process of self purification and its implications for awakening and the supra mundane understandings of love, compassion, joy, and equanimity in our lives.
Honolulu, Hawaii
February 22, 2020
48 min.