Despite what I might have implied in previous posts, I do not believe in reincarnation - nor in transmigration.
For karma is but an endless series of cause and effect arising in humanity's past, affecting the present, and potentially influencing the future.
Yet karma's effect on the future is not inevitable.
Since the purpose of meditation is to awaken from the dream called samsara, the cycle of birth-life-death.
Out of fear of death, one may be tempted to believe in a permanent soul to escape the reality of non-self, the impermanence of it all.
Yet the principle of no-self points to the Buddha's compassion for all sentient beings to save us from the delusion of permanence.
His compassion led to the Buddhist teaching of dependent arising, the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path.
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