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Reincarnation
In reincarnation, it is not the soul
that reincarnates actually. The soul lives forever; doesn't die,
doesn't live, doesn't reincarnate. It is the experience of life, the
integrating process between the physical and the spiritual when we
are experimenting in the so-called life here and which attaches to
the knowledge of our existence, that reincarnates. And if we do not
detach ourselves from this kind of experiment that we call
ourselves, we reincarnate. Actually, we don't reincarnate, we don't
die, ever. We are just sick; we are just diseased with these
incidents, with these disasters that happen to be attached to us. If
we don't cut ourselves asunder from that, then of course, we are
forever connected with that. The cause and effect keep changing,
keep moving, keep adding, keep diminishing; and that's how we say we
reincarnate. If we are not enlightened enough, that's it.
We don't reincarnate, but a part of
our habits, our collective information reincarnates. So this part of
us, which is called the intellect, or maybe the sixth consciousness,
collects all kinds of karmic information. And then it recycles it
again, like a Coca Cola bottle, or like some of the things in the
United States now that they encourage people to recycle. It's the
same thing; our 'bottles' are recycled. Each time they can be used,
and they are still connected with other materials in this world,
then we call it reincarnation; it's just a kind of recycling. The
Coca Cola substance inside doesn't reincarnate, only the bottle
does. Still, people can recognize that, or not recognize it. But the
substance is still there, so they recognize it as recycled; we see
it as recycled.
The things from which this bottle is
made are not reincarnated; this is our real Self, our soul. Each
time we want to experiment with new things, we bottle ourselves into
a new recycled substance or subject; that's it. But then again,
we're used to identifying ourselves with all this substance and
information, so we say we reincarnate. But it's not true. We never
die, and we are never born. We have always existed; we are the
witness of all things created and destroyed in this universe. We
always are the witness. But then sometimes we identify ourselves
with the subject that we witness and with the circumstances in which
we witness it, so we suffer or we have joy.
Just like when we watch TV, and we
forget that it's only a movie, and we cry, or we laugh. We support
this one, and we want to kill the other. Both of them have nothing
to do with us, none of them are our enemies or friends, and none of
them are real. But we hate that one: "Oh! That mustached one,
he is a bad guy, kill him, kill him!" You sit in front of the
screen, and you say, "Kill him! Kill that guy quickly!" Or
"Get out, get out! He'll kill you! Get out, quick! This way,
this way!" Like the personage on TV or the screen will actually
listen to us or hear us, but they don't. They do what they have to
do according to the director, not according to us. Therefore many of
the movies' outcomes don't suit our taste; we want to change them.
But what's the use? If we change it, it's not that movie any more.
So the movie has to exist the way it is. Actually, we fool ourselves
many times, and we can prove that every day; no need to talk about
reincarnation, illusion or anything of this world, we can prove it.
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