Children Claiming Past-Life Memories: Four Cases in Sri Lanka eftir Erlend Haraldsson

 

Abstract-This is a report on an investigation of four children in Sri Lanka

who claimed to remember a previous life at the early age of two to three

years. Detailed written records were made of the statements of three of the

children before any attempt was made to examine their claims. In two cases,

these statements made it possible to trace a deceased person whose life

history fit to a considerable extent the statements made by the child. In these

cases, no prior connection of any kind was found to have existed between

the child’s family and that of the alleged previous personality. The pattern

of these cases resembles those earlier reported by Stevenson: the children are

at a preschool age when they start to make claims about a previous life; they

usually start to “forget” at about the time they go to school; some of them

claim to have died violently earlier; they express the wish to meet their

earlier families or visit their homes; and some of them show behavioral

idiosyncrasies that seem to differ from what they observe and would be

expected to learn from their environment. In Sri Lanka more than half of

such cases remain “unsolved,” i.e., no person can be traced that roughly

matches the child’s statements.

 

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The Self and the Absolute

 

The Self and the Absolute

1. The absolute is real; the objects of the world are only relatively real. (Brahma satyam jagan mithya)

2. There is one absolute reality, without any division.
(Ekam evadvitiyam brahma)

3. To know that absolute reality in direct experience is the supreme knowledge. (Prajnanam Brahman)

4. That absolute reality is the essence of who you really are.
(Tat tvam asi)

5. The individual Self is one and the same with the absolute, like the wave and the ocean. (Ayam atma brahma)

6. Who I really am, at the core of my being, is that absolute reality, the ocean. (Aham brahmasmi)

7. All of this, including me, is that absolute reality; the wave and the ocean are one. (Sarvam khalvidam brahma)

 

What is the meaning of “the life?”

 

What is not truth? The sky is blue, the tree is green, the dog is barking, sugar is sweet. Even though we live this truth all the time, we don’t know truth because we don’t know ourselves. What is the meaning of “the life?” The life means helping all beings. When they are hungry, give them food. When they are thirsty, give them drink. Whenever you meet suffering beings, only help them. Buddhist teaching shows us how to find the correct way, truth, and correct life and use that to save all beings from suffering.  

Zen Master Seung Sahn

 

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