I can swim along both streams, the Christian and the Buddhist. #062
The coming and going of the ego each moment is "reincarnation". To escape birth-death, accept what your life is right now. Even the coming and going of the ego is the proper function of the universe.
To enter the kingdom of heaven, crucify your false self and rise from the dead, and be born again as a son or daughter of God.
All traditions make the mistake of taking religious metaphors literally. Spiritual language is designed to reach through logic straight to the intuition. If you take words to literally you end up with Christians believing in a literal heaven and the Buddhists a literal re-birth.
The mask we have constructed does not live on after death. let it go, let it die each moment, don't block out the reality of your life as it is right now. Thats heaven, that's nirvana.
To enter the kingdom of heaven, crucify your false self and rise from the dead, and be born again as a son or daughter of God.
All traditions make the mistake of taking religious metaphors literally. Spiritual language is designed to reach through logic straight to the intuition. If you take words to literally you end up with Christians believing in a literal heaven and the Buddhists a literal re-birth.
The mask we have constructed does not live on after death. let it go, let it die each moment, don't block out the reality of your life as it is right now. Thats heaven, that's nirvana.