Thank you both of you
I will do some reading and understanding

Hello, sometimes I hear from others that karma or the fruit of karma is only responsible for mind phenomens (feelings, mood). Other times I hear that karma is even responsible if one has wealth and success in life, so that for an evildoer there will come misfortune events in the future and a gooddoe...

Ok. Thank you for clarifying the issue. I see now that buddhism is the right way and it is worthwhile to strive.

Again Thank you all.

That's all wonderful to hear, placebo. But I guess now I'm confused as to what your question is. So all in all I see birth as painful and a calamity, with it comes only suffering, pain and endless worries and finally you will lose everything (death). The Buddha taught the way to the cessation of bi...

So many posts and my confusion is increasing the more opionions are displayed. I appreciate the postings of you above but I want to express my feelings here in another way. I already realized how much suffering there is in life because of its impermanent nature. Over years this observation built int...

Wouldn't that constitute birth? What else is birth if not the new formation of a body? Sorry, my native language is germany and perhaps I didn't pointed my understanding as such in a bad way out. I think birth could be understood twice. In one way it is the birth of the ego sense in mind and in the...

Thank you both of you for clarifying the issue. For the last post I already know that there is no entity which gets reborn. It is merely an ongoing process or to say it in other terms a reoccuring of the five aggregates. For me it is enough to know if the five aggregates are still experienced after ...

I'm new to theravada buddhsim in general and I have question about rebirth. What exactly does it mean when it is said that there is no rebirth after awakening (nirvana). I know (conceptual) from reading that the state of nirvana cannot be described but at least it is uttered that rebirth ends. At th...