guest_of_logic wrote:, Buddhism teaches literal reincarnation. I know that you and the house philosophy deny this too, but it is fact. This is, as you seem to understand in your last post, how the suffering of birth, death, illness, etc are ended: the enlightened being no longer reincarnates.
Laird you are misinterpreting what "reincarnation" means. You might as well say Christianity teaches
literal heaven. Wtf?
It's a word that you don't know the meaning of, so how can you say it is meant literally?
And in response to the line "the enlightened being no longer reincarnates", is similar to "The cessation of existence", or "is no longer reborn" as attributed to Buddha.
Both of which are references to things you don't understand.
Russell wrote:SeekerOfWisdom wrote:
You seem to believe in a perishable ego-substance that ends, others believe it is reincarnated, the first is equally deluded.
And you believe in an eternal, ever lasting ego substance?
No ego, and hence nothing to perish, or to last.