when you die, your soul is sent into either a human body or an animal body or a heavenly body and so on. but are new souls created to keep up with the number of bodies on earth and the number of people being sent to nirvana, and how many souls were there in the beginning. and if there is a set number of souls, then what happens when the number of bodies outnumbers the number of souls.

To your last question; Mindless idiot drones, which are common these days. At least what I think. Guess we capped it a long time ago.

I don't think its as individual as that. One 'soul' gets sent here and replaced from somewhere else...

I think they believe conciousness is a collective. There is no self, no individual, no difference between animal or human or tree... But more part of the same thing, expierenced the same at each cycle...

By mastering that puzzle you(But there is no you) expierence enlightenment...

I know I'm not 100% with this explaination, but I know that 'souls' are not parts of a person that get passed on. Everybody has the same one... Not muliple copies of the same 'soul' but the exact same one...

quote:Originally posted by Axiom:

I think they believe conciousness is a collective. There is no self, no individual, no difference between animal or human or tree... But more part of the same thing, expierenced the same at each cycle...

By mastering that puzzle you(But there is no you) expierence enlightenment...

I know I'm not 100% with this explaination, but I know that 'souls' are not parts of a person that get passed on. Everybody has the same one... Not muliple copies of the same 'soul' but the exact same one... [/B]



Nice...

but your mixing up soul and spirit. Spirit is what every human contains.

Buddhism does not care. Such knowledge is irrelevant to reach nirvana.

quote:Originally posted by Mojo Hojo:

To your last question; Mindless idiot drones, which are common these days. At least what I think. Guess we capped it a long time ago.



it seems so, lol

yeah, I said 'soul' because I don't know what to call it...

Also Cakenggt, its Disire's that separate us as human, and the degree of desire that separates us further to what may be percieved as individuals... But again, I'm not 100% on this... There's people here who would know better...

You need to understand the difference between a Spirit, soul, and body.

A 'soul' or 'mind' in the bible is always said when refering to a state of thought. Thus, the Soul is the MIND.

Spirit is always refering to heart, and likewise. Which deals with what God placed in us to be able to communicate with him.

"The spirit bears witness with the spirit."

The body is the flesh, your mortal, dying, body.

Paul said, "I (the spirit) have to bring myself into subjection, least I fall into temptation." Himself, as in his thoughts, (keeping yourself in check), so that his body didn't yeild to temptations.

Why can't people understand the difference?

It's not hard, it really makes sense. I'm a spirit in a body, with a mind.

My mind (soul), is where thoughts derive. My Spirit(heart/intent) is renewed daily, it never get's old. God sees the heart of things, the intent behind everything you do. My body, is the temple of the Holy Spirit (which is in me. Gal. 2:20, Jesus, the comforter).

quote:Originally posted by Cakenggt:

when you die, your soul is sent into either a human body or an animal body or a heavenly body and so on. but are new souls created to keep up with the number of bodies on earth and the number of people being sent to nirvana, and how many souls were there in the beginning. and if there is a set number of souls, then what happens when the number of bodies outnumbers the number of souls.

This is my opinion I've formed from doing a lot of reading, of course, I'm no Dalai Lama.

You've a slight misunderstanding of Buddhism. There's no set number of selves. There are no humans without selves. Selves who've reached a certain evolutionary point are born into humanity.

Your soul isn't 'sent' anywhere.

Buddhists believe in a stream of slices of consciousness causing (as in a candle lighting another candle) the next rebirth. The way your consciousness is able to arise now from moment to moment is the same way it arises life to life.

Hit up 'anatman' on Google.