The soul is generally considered to be an entity that escapes thought and time. Therefore we are talking about a "spiritual" entity that would survive death in order to reincarnate in a hereafter, right ? Is it a fact or a projection born out of the skillful mind ? And then what exactly would reincarnate? To answer we must first understand what our life is.
Our existence is largely governed by the relentless quest for pleasures and sensations.
We project ourselves into all kinds of ideas, ideologies and abstractions to escape conflicts and inner emptiness. But the point is that our life is conditioned, petty and cruelly centered on itself, without much generosity.
We have been brought up to conform to patterns and traditions. We were taught competition, comparison and violence.
We have sanctified the couple, the family and love, but our daily life is nothing but antagonism, jealousy, sexual addiction, fear of loneliness, need for companionship, ambition, arrogance and brutality. Now the question that arises is, the following : Is it really this small and petty individual that wants to reincarnate ? How could it be otherwise ? Because his is the content of our consciousness. Thought invented the idea of ​​an afterlife to escape its fear of death and of losing all its attachments.
We can see in an instant the whole structure and the nature of this poor little thing called the self, with its tears, its family, its nation, its beliefs, its religion, with all this ugliness : it is all within us. And when we see it from the depths of the heart and not by the intellect alone, we hold the key that ends pain. Not elsewhere differently, but here now. The soul is none other than consciousness, which is the totality of the content of thought : knowledge, experiences, memories, ideologies, beliefs, convictions, fears, traumas, ambition, pleasures, images, violence, divisions etc.
When we put an end to the structure of the ego, that which survives is an entity outside of time and conditioned thought. It does not need to be embodied, nor even reincarnated.
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