{"id":1190,"date":"2022-02-19T10:09:05","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T10:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthturningbuddhism.com\/?p=1190"},"modified":"2022-02-19T10:09:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T10:09:07","slug":"death-rebirth-reincarnation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthturningbuddhism.com\/death-rebirth-reincarnation\/","title":{"rendered":"How Can We Think About Reincarnation?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;d like to suggest that the idea of reincarnation can be usefully framed as a metaphor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inspiringquotes.us\/author\/2262-dalai-lama\/about-reincarnation#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cWhether you believe in God or not does not matter much, whether you believe in Buddha or not does not matter so much; as a Buddhist, whether you believe in reincarnation or not does not matter so much. You must lead a good life.\u201d<\/a><\/p><cite>Dalai Lama<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>In every moment, the self we believed to be true dies, and another is reborn. This will continue ceaselessly until our bodies either physically perish, or until we transcend our self-identity and merge with the all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to suggest that the idea of reincarnation can be usefully framed as a metaphor. \u201cWhether you believe in God or not does not matter much, whether you believe in Buddha or not does not matter so much; as a Buddhist, whether you believe in reincarnation or not does not matter so much. You &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthturningbuddhism.com\/death-rebirth-reincarnation\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Can We Think About Reincarnation?<\/span> Read More \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthturningbuddhism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthturningbuddhism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthturningbuddhism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthturningbuddhism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthturningbuddhism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthturningbuddhism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1192,"href":"https:\/\/fourthturningbuddhism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions\/1192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthturningbuddhism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthturningbuddhism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthturningbuddhism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}