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What Makes You Not a Buddhist

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by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse

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How can we explain that rebirth exists through the truths that rinpoche explained? cause being a Buddhist it is extremely important that we believe in past and future life.
Charles Harris Interesting question. What makes you think it's extremely important we believe in past and future life? Or indeed anything. As Dzongsar Jamyang Khyent…moreInteresting question. What makes you think it's extremely important we believe in past and future life? Or indeed anything. As Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse puts it, the core effort of Buddhism isn't to believe but to find the truth. If you know something is true, you can forget about believing. If I know the sun is shining, I don't have to believe it's shining, or have faith that it's shining, I simply know it's shining. As he says in the book, if a Buddhist discovered that one of the fundamental tenets were untrue, he'd (she'd) simply change the tenet.(less)
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