Here is where practice comes in. The short version goes like this: First you must observe the precepts to gain virtue. With this virtue you then begin to meditate. This meditation will eventually become focused, and you will become concentrated.
After a while this concentration will lead to insght or wisdom into the subjects that you investigate. Now you will have direct knowledge of these concepts like dukkha, anicca, and anatta roughly translated as unsatisfactoriness, impermanence, and no-self.
This understanding destroys your ignorance avijja to the Truth Dhamma and you will be free nibbana from the cycle of becoming samsara. I hope this explaination helps. This view of rebirth vs. Other schools of Buddhism may have different explainations.
Thank you so much - that really helps. I understand the difference now, but still have so much to learn about Buddhism! I feel like I may never figure all of this out! Trust me you will. I may sound like I know a lot, but I really don't. I read, study, think, and meditate on these things until I have a pretty good idea of what they mean. This, in turn, helps me later on in my practice when I have to deal with these things in my meditations.
Also, it helps to be able to explain these ideas to others if they get confused. My only advantage is that I love to read. I would just pick a random book and read it, pick another and read it, etc. To be honest my knowledge is more "scholarly" than actual direct knowledge. I felt that if I were to follow this Path I should be positive that I understand it, and that I believe it for what it is. I have "practiced" many religions and I decided to never blindly follow another again.
When a person dies and reborn again, then it is neither absolutely the same nor entirely another. It is defined as a continuity of a particle life flux only. It reflects just a causal connection between the previous life and next life.
Also see Mysticism Vs. Rebirth is associated with the doctrine of Buddhism where it denies the notion of any soul. Rebirth is referred to as the repeated occurrence of the process of existence. Reincarnation is associated with the doctrine of Hinduism, where it is defined by the nature of the soul, which is permanent and is supposed to reborn by just taking a new body. It follows the law of causality, or dependent origination, where this arises because of circumstances which happened before.
Image Courtesy: dhammapadabook. Difference between Rebirth and Reincarnation. Key Difference: Rebirth and reincarnation, both refer to the process of being born again after death. Reincarnation is re-embodiment of the same soul but in a different body. On the other hand, rebirth is the state of being born again or taking another birth.
This is the main difference between the two words. Reincarnation usually refers to the rebirth of the same person at a different place after death. A person who is considered the reincarnation of someone who lived in the past shows the same signs and mannerisms of that person.
He may or may not remember about the happenings and the events of the previous birth. Sometimes, persons who reincarnate can predict that they would do so. They can also sometimes predict the time and the place of the reincarnation. Unlike in rebirth, in the case of reincarnation a person is reborn again as another human being.
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