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7/4/2025, 2:50:38 AM
>>17812712
>>17812712
>Can you please quote a specific portion of the Pali Canon that teaches this?
Here is one sutta:
https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN/MN136.html
And there it's said that it can happen either due to delayed ripening of kamma *or* due to adopting and carrying out right/wrong view at the time of death.
>If coming into a Hell Realm with a fully formed indestructible body that will last longer than a universe isn't miraculous, then neither is resurrection.
Other realms can have other rules. Spontaneous generation of life is very rare in this world, but in another place with different rules it could be very ordinary.
>Buddha claims in the Pali Canon that he can fly up and touch the sun itself. Rearranging neurons wouldn't be beyond the power of someone who could do that.
How do you know? They seem like unrelated skills to me. And I can freely accept that much of the Pali canon is almost certainly mythology that has built up around the core ideas and teachings of Buddhism (as I believe the Bible is also heavily mytholgical) without tossing out those core teachings. I'm not a huge fan of the Dalai Lama or his type of Buddhism, but IIRC he once said something like "If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change." and I agree with that. If I had to bet on one religion to be closest to the truth, I would go with Buddhism, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was a bit off in many ways, like a very primitive low-resolution model of the truth, but still recognizably a model of the truth.
>>17812712
>Can you please quote a specific portion of the Pali Canon that teaches this?
Here is one sutta:
https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN/MN136.html
And there it's said that it can happen either due to delayed ripening of kamma *or* due to adopting and carrying out right/wrong view at the time of death.
>If coming into a Hell Realm with a fully formed indestructible body that will last longer than a universe isn't miraculous, then neither is resurrection.
Other realms can have other rules. Spontaneous generation of life is very rare in this world, but in another place with different rules it could be very ordinary.
>Buddha claims in the Pali Canon that he can fly up and touch the sun itself. Rearranging neurons wouldn't be beyond the power of someone who could do that.
How do you know? They seem like unrelated skills to me. And I can freely accept that much of the Pali canon is almost certainly mythology that has built up around the core ideas and teachings of Buddhism (as I believe the Bible is also heavily mytholgical) without tossing out those core teachings. I'm not a huge fan of the Dalai Lama or his type of Buddhism, but IIRC he once said something like "If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change." and I agree with that. If I had to bet on one religion to be closest to the truth, I would go with Buddhism, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was a bit off in many ways, like a very primitive low-resolution model of the truth, but still recognizably a model of the truth.
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