Quote: "Who am I now? I am that I am! I am I! As I explained quite plainly: I am referring to re-incarnational memories, memories of other life-times. In those life-times, I was something different. I was different in every life-time, but always quite similar nonetheless. I am Michael this life-time, but my meditations have allowed me to learn that I was different in other life-times, and because of that, I am different, now. In summation, what or who, I am now, is complicated and difficult to explain. It would have to involve a complete review of all my incarnations, and even then, it would lead to a greater personality, or energetic-system, which contains all the memories of these personalities that were once ego/present-personalities. "
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What is "complicated "?

Quote: "I have learned that the "previous"-personalities travel a journey described by the Tibetans as "Bardo", and upon completion of said journey, return to a greater-self, that might be described as a "Whole Personality"."
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if it appears as if there's any thing left, this isn't it

You will find the "Ignore" option (to the left of each posting) quite useful.

Al

Quote: "When I am not trying to be polite, I am out-spoken and blunt. If I am trying to be polite, it is because I am annoyed that no one has even attempted to answer and respond to my inquiry about how to locate an English-speaking Japanese zen-monk!"
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I don't know who here fits your discription. but the discussion of Bardo is very interesting as my step son was just murdered two days ago and "bardo" came up. I'm sorry I cannot continue this conversation further. good luck in your journey to find who it is you want to know.

Quote: "If I am trying to be polite, it is because I am annoyed that no one has even attempted to answer and respond to my inquiry about how to locate an English-speaking Japanese zen-monk!"
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"annoyed" was an opportunity which seeking information, for verifying memory, was as if blind

Memories Incarnation Karma Accounts- So Answers Needed

Recall your previous lives to reduce your existing problems?

This life-stream flows ad infinitum, as long as the muddy waters of ignorance and craving feed it.

With Metta

what is asking for help for verifying memories which aren't  

maybe focusing on memories  assists avoiding fear ?

Quote: "I am less involved with the present than before I began to re-call previous incarnations, and I will admit that. However, I can say that I am involved with a development that involves what could be described as a greater-present. It just takes some time to learn how to handle the memories and not let the previous lifetime-memories interfere with day-to-day activities. It can be a challenge, on occaision."
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Maybe It's Katsumi Akira- Search Archives.Name never dies

Allow me to share your happiness, once you found it.

Good Luck

With Metta

Quote: "Why do people tend to live in the past or the future...? Even now is ticking away......"
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Living Ignorantly  One Never Escape Life-flux

"Tis Ignorance entails the dreary round - now here,

now there - of countless births and deaths."

"But no hereafter waits for him who knows!"

With Metta

Quote: "Do some of you talk so as to hear the sound of your own voices? Mika-san"
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A wise man will be the master of his Mind. Instead Keeping AbsolutelySilent And Nonchalant often proves one a fool.

With Metta

Quote: "Do some of you talk so as to hear the sound of your own voices? Mika-san"
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I don't know, but sometimes when you talk I hear the sound of my voice.

Quote: "I do not believe the monastery is still there as it would have to be a part of urban Osaka. I do believe it still exists, but would have been moved by now to another location."
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would it have been moved, carefully, from one side to the other?

Quote: "my posts are like ghosts
i swear i type them
but i come back and they are gone!
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Please observe the last bullet point of "Posting Guidelines & Rules".

Alan

Quote: "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
[Tractatus 7]
~Ludwig Wittgenstein

It is not speaking that breaks our silence, but the anxiety to be heard. The words of the proud man impose silence on all others, so that he alone may be heard. The humble man speaks only in order to be spoken to. The humble man asks nothing but an alms, then waits and listens.
~Thomas Merton
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Dude, give it a break. Create a new thread and whine about it in there, leave this one alone. I will continue to delete any more posting on this thread that has nothing to do with the original question which is reincarnation.

Alan

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I must've missed something because I thought I'd responded to the creator of a thread on reincarnation who was seemingly concerned about "some of you talking so as to hear the sound of your own voices", [not construed as 'whining'], which appeared to advance the dialogue somewhat. Anyway, notwithstanding the reincarnation of an old post as a new topic, the destiny of all posting, is deletion. "
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And so have I, I'll take that back and apologize. Thanks for the clarification.

Alan

when reading this thread.. and reading bullet point... I wrote bullet point because my son was shot in the neck on fathers day and it would seem that a topic of reincarnation and hearing the same words ...seemed appropriate..though I'm not inclined to do this again..thank you Alan for all your support

Thanks for the clarification Lynnoh. I'll follow this up in a separate thread.

Alan