The three knowledges imply reality to rebirth. If you are progressing as a Buddhist, you should be gaining access to your long, long, long term memory banks - your own personal Akashic records.
Maybe you should try past life regression therapy.
More importantly. What is it, specifically, about practicing that makes you a non-believer in rebirth?
The harder I practice the worse my wrong views get, help!
Re: The harder I practice the worse my wrong views get, help!
Like the three marks of conditioned existence, this world in itself is filthy, hostile, and crowded
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Re: The harder I practice the worse my wrong views get, help!
If those things that you neither believe nor disbelieve have nothing to do with your meditation practice I dont see why would they affect you.zan wrote:Well disbelief is said to be a spiritual obstacle. But I suppose neither belief nor non belief would be no obstacle?dhammarelax wrote:Why to take a stance? In the way that I practice it doesnt make a difference if it exists or not.zan wrote:So one of the spiritual obstacles is not believing in rebirth and such concepts. Normally I believe in rebirth but the more I practice and the better my practice becomes the stronger the wrong view gets that there is no such thing as rebirth and that such things are not real.
It is a very difficult thing. Essentially when I am failing to practice often or failing to give much effort I am very concerned about rebirth and such things but when my practice is very strong all my worries cease, including worrying about rebirth and related things and I start to form the wrong view that they are not true!
The effect is cumulative in both directions and proportionate to the amount I am practicing or failing to practice.
What can I do to keep my views correct?
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Dhammarelax
Even if the flesh & blood in my body dry up, leaving just the skin, tendons, & bones, I will use all my human firmness, human persistence and human striving. There will be no relaxing my persistence until I am the first of my generation to attain full awakening in this lifetime. ed. AN 2.5
Re: The harder I practice the worse my wrong views get, help!
Is this related with the teaching of non-self? A lot of people get really hung up on the question "If there is no self, then what gets reborn?" Is this the issue that is coming up for you?zan wrote:So one of the spiritual obstacles is not believing in rebirth and such concepts. Normally I believe in rebirth but the more I practice and the better my practice becomes the stronger the wrong view gets that there is no such thing as rebirth and that such things are not real.
The non-doing of any evil,
The performance of what's skillful,
The cleansing of one's own mind:
This is the Buddhas' teaching.
The performance of what's skillful,
The cleansing of one's own mind:
This is the Buddhas' teaching.