Message #22276

[ding dong]

Sure, Mccoy, I'm happy to explain my line of thinking but my statement is really just how it seems to me. I can't offer a proof. How would you prove or disprove such an idea? But as I said in that post, I have heard some say that if you are "enlightened" then you won't incarnate in any world at all. It would be like you deciding to go take a nap so as to rescue someone that last night you dreamed was in trouble. To you suffering is itself illusory and there are no other people separate from you. So there is no room for this idea of incarnating to save others. At best, one might think that there is a desire to be a guru or an avatar, which would then, following this line of thinking, entail an incarnation to fulfill that desire.

Also, they say God is everywhere. Well then, avatar doesn't make much sense. It is like a part of the ocean turning into a drop so as to go swimming in the ocean.

Anyway, all that's assuming you believe certain things. In that tiny little paragraph I just wrote, there are a lot of assumptions. First, that there is something called enlightenment. God. Second, that what "some say" about it is correct. And third, that there is any reincarnation at all (something I also don't see why we should assume).