Reincarnation in Buddhism: Difference between revisions

<blockquote>Some of you have thought that there was a discrepancy between the teaching that I gave twenty-five hundred years ago and the teaching which I give today. In those days it was dangerous for individuals to engage in a metaphysical speculation or in a hierarchy or in a cosmos of beings beyond themselves. For they were emerging from the traditions of total dependence upon a priesthood in the state of decay and degeneration. I sought, then, to give them the very essentials, as you would give to a child the very basics of mathematics. And therefore I was silent on the point of the soul and the Spirit, on the point of life after death and immortality, lest my disciples should take the teaching as an excuse for their acceptance of the lie of procrastination or of the lie of predetermination.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Rather it was my role, outlined by Lord [[Sanat Kumara]] and the [[Lords of Karma]], to present a very practical teaching based upon a code of ethics, a code of morality, an eightfold path, all the while teaching them the law of desire and of all of suffering that is caused by desire, that there is a way out of desire, that the desire can be transformed in the transmutative action that is the daily ritual of following the [[Eightfold Path]].</blockquote>

<blockquote>In this day and age, through the evolution of consciousness, the [[Great White Brotherhood|Brotherhood]] has released to the chelas the understanding of the soul and its potential to realize God, the knowledge of the [[I AM Presence]] and the [[violet flame]]. These are dispensations which could not be given in that era, given the then current evolution of those who were a part of the mandala, in the East, of the Buddha.<ref>Gautama Buddha, “Reinforcement to All Who Would Become the Buddha,” {{POWref|57|1|, January 1, 2014}}</ref></blockquote>