Tag: reincarnation

Last March, the Dalai Lama identified a young Mongolian boy as the Bogd, the 10th incarnation of the spiritual leader of Mongolian Buddhism.

Recently I’ve been preparing for the inevitable. Last month, I reached an age at which I can say, “Four score and seven years ago, my mother brought forth on this continent a new baby ...” That was me. I’ve never been 87 before, never dreamed I’d make it this far. I’d wondered whether I’d see the turn of this century! But I did, so what’s next?

The law of karma—the law of cause and result—has many facets, and it takes much study and reflection to fully appreciate it.

Probably not.  As far as we can tell, to be a self-aware entity requires that we have a working brain, since we are what the brain does.