REINCARNATION

talasiga · Post by **talasiga** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 6:11 pm

Welcome to Talasiga's first OT thread.
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jim stone wrote: (from this other topic)
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Indian music is perhaps the most sublime music on
earth--but I will have to wait till I'm reborn to train
to play it. The difficulty with my plan is that, given the
life I've led, I probably will return as a frog.

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Count yourself blessed that you won't be reborn as a
FIDDLE PLAYER!

jim stone · Post by **jim stone** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 8:41 pm

All of my life I've said, when people proposed
that I do something I didn't want to do,
'Next life!'

Stone, why not learn Latin?
Next life!

How about taking up sky diving?
Next life!

Have you considered becoming
a Chasidic Jew?
Next life!

Well you know how karma works, yes?
I will, after my demise as Jungle Jimmy,
find myself in a black gabardine coat
that fits too snugly beneath the parachute
harness, studying a Latin grammar
as the plane taxis down the runway for
take off. I'd prefer to be a frog.

Happily nobody
ever suggested I take up the fiddle.

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Mon Nov 15, 2004 10:52 am

Re-incarnation? why not. When I was a kid I used to always tell my mom I was from England. have you ever felt like you had something like memory fragments that are fleeting and elusive? Maybe they are past-life memories that are hard to fully comprehend because we don't have reference points in this life.

CHIFF FIPPLE · Post by **CHIFF FIPPLE** » Mon Nov 15, 2004 11:02 am

Don't know now,but I will tell you when I come back

jim stone · Post by **jim stone** » Mon Nov 15, 2004 11:05 am

Paul wrote:Re-incarnation? why not. When I was a kid I used to always tell my mom I was from England. have you ever felt like you had something like memory fragments that are fleeting and elusive?

All the time!

TomB · Post by **TomB** » Mon Nov 15, 2004 2:14 pm

jim stone wrote:
Paul wrote:Re-incarnation? why not. When I was a kid I used to always tell my mom I was from England. have you ever felt like you had something like memory fragments that are fleeting and elusive?
All the time!

Me too- but then I realize that the "memory fragments" are things like, "where did I leave my keys" & "what did I have for breakfast this morning" and things like that.

All the Best, Tom

Redwolf · Post by **Redwolf** » Mon Nov 15, 2004 2:29 pm

I don't believe in reincarnation, but I think I might have in a previous life

Redwolf

jim stone · Post by **jim stone** » Mon Nov 15, 2004 2:37 pm

sheeesh!

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Mon Nov 15, 2004 3:14 pm

Redwolf wrote:I don't believe in reincarnation, but I think I might have in a previous life

jbarter · Post by **jbarter** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 5:44 am

If reincarnation is real, is it good karma or bad karma that makes you come back as a whistler?

Be kind to bodhran players, they might be great-uncle Albert.

talasiga · Post by **talasiga** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 7:01 am

jbarter wrote:If reincarnation is real, is it good karma or bad karma that makes you come back as a whistler?

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Karma is illusory. It has a relative reality in as much as it exists but ultimately it is illusory. In the Divine embrace there is no karma.

If you whistle with love you partake of the Divine calling the stray souls home. Heartfelt, soulful music is our momentary lapse into our image in the likeness of God. In that moment we are reborn as an instrument of the Divine Musician. This is the highest reincarnation.
From our mundane perspective it is fleeting and yet, from another perspective, it is a perennial fountain awaiting our thirst.

1.01 pm

John S · Post by **John S** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 7:10 am

First words of the Dali Lama?

"As I was saying"

GaryKelly · Post by **GaryKelly** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 7:11 am

Karma is freely available, and is distributed under the GNU GPL and LGPL (applications and libraries, respectively). It's available from the Karma homepage, http://www.atnf.csiro.au/computing/software/karma/

And there I was thinking it was the title of a racey book.

talasiga · Post by **talasiga** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 7:20 am

John S wrote:First words of the Dali Lama?

"As I was saying"

Hmmm ..... chuckle.
Pretty surreal!

jim stone · Post by **jim stone** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 9:01 am

talasiga wrote:
jbarter wrote:If reincarnation is real, is it good karma or bad karma that makes you come back as a whistler?

..........
Karma is illusory. It has a relative reality in as much as it exists but ultimately it is illusory. In the Divine embrace there is no karma.

If you whistle with love you partake of the Divine calling the stray souls home. Heartfelt, soulful music is our momentary lapse into our image in the likeness of God. In that moment we are reborn as an instrument of the Divine Musician. This is the highest reincarnation.
From our mundane perspective it is fleeting and yet, from another perspective, it is a perennial fountain awaiting our thirst.

1.01 pm

Karma, as we know, including good karma, is the force
that drives us into a new round of birth, sickness, old age and
death. We create karma when we act thinking it is we,
not nature, acting. The trick is to learn to act without creating
karma. Music is definitely a path to that.