What reincarnates? Obviously not memory which is etched in brain, unless you don't see the truth in scientific research. In the West we want go to heaven and in the East we want to reincarnate, the mind wants to continue knowing that you are temporal. Mind seeks permanence. Do you know anything that last for ever? What do you want to continue after your body decays? What reincarnates.
All religious leaders are blind and lead blind followers to dullness. Authority is conformity which is not freedom. Why do you give authority to someone to lead your life, is it not because you are not strong enough to find the truth by your self? Unknowable can not be reached by any map for there is no map to unknown.
What is the difference between dictator and life time political leader whose words are to be obeyed without question? None. Any one who advocates secularization and nationalism obviously can not be in communion with others. If you realize observer can not be separated from observed (father, son and holy ghost are one), leader and the led disappear. We are one human. I have same needs and wants as any others.
What is the difference between 14 generations of Dalai Lama's absolute authority from 14 generations of any kingdom? Wanting to be absolute ruler of his own country, isn't this all the dictators want. As long as nations with it patriotism exist there will be wars and conflicts. There will be no freedom. As long as there are organized religions, which are not true religion, you will not find the truth. If you organize the truth is truth? Who gave them authority?
Christians Muslims Hindus and Buddhists can not talk to or face each other. With blind faith they believe that they are the only chosen one. More cruelty has been committed in the name of organized religion than all other sick causes, although Buddhism is by far the least harmful. In Joseph Campbell said in Bill Moyer's interview Power of Myth, politician is an unformed man, devoid of face and out of touch with reality. Mr Campbell is professor emeritus of comparative religion at a Catholic university.
We are one human. You have same needs and wants as anyone else. To be free of authority, to be treated with respect and decency and finally to be free from nightmare of history or past. We live in the past. The culture, which is conformity to past, is not freedom.
Past was and is gone. you can not bring it to life. Future is modified past, a projection of the mind. It does not exist. All the visions of saints are but projections of their mind, what they have been taught, what they have learned and thought about.
Present moment, or eternity is different from always. It is psychologically timeless moment. When the past which is mind become silent through deep understanding of nature of the conditioned mind, which is desire, want, envy greed etc, then the lens of perception is cleansed. Only then truth is revealed and it is here at present moment.
Heaven and hell, reincarnation all these are inventions of human's or rather human mind's deepest desire for continuity. They are not real.
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