Reincarnation, or Something Else?

Manymoons, I really like your post of 06-04-2006. You about said it all and it is a nice summation, too. Might I add, tho, that the Old Testament acknowledges some of this in the "To everything there is a season" essay (Ecclesiastes). Pure yin 'n' yang theory.

I have no use for ancient desert religions or the folks of 2006 who still get hung up on them - but I am not about to throw the baby out with the bathwater, and must admit that, yes, even the OT & the NT contain some wisdom.

[umeshoyu]

In macrobiotics, we understand that nothing is purely yin or purely yang. With this in mind, there is no right without wrong, or wrong without right. There is no pure truth, not through the mind's limited ability to "know", nor is the most insane, weird, beleifs, practices completely without its truth. Even Hitler had something truthful within his beleifs and practices. I say this even though my heritage is Jewish, and some of my family were killed in his name.

Acknowledging this limits our ability to say that someone, or something, some idea, is completely right, or wrong.
All beleif systems are subject to this as well, whether it be reincarnation, Judaism, Christianity, God, Jesus, Moses, the Bible, Buddha.

There is more yang, less yang, more yin, and less yin. Then there is also more right, less right, more wrong, and less wrong as well. How do we really conclude which is more right since nothing is really equal either?

What we can know from this is that whatever we think, feel, experience, beleive, that there is always more. We can always grow with all of these things as long as we understand that we are not completely right, and others are not completely wrong, or vice versa.

The fear in openly sharing ourselves with others who are different in some way, is that we may lose what we cherish. I have found that the opposite is true. We actually gain when we openly share, and expose what we hold most dear to us. That is because the ultimate Truth cannot be lost. The only things we may lose are the things that are partial, or finite, or limited to time and space. The parts of our ideas, beleifs, experiences that are closest to infinity will last accordingly.

Therefore to discover more Truth, we must openly share with others, and all of life, no matter what it is we beleive, or disbeleive. A disbeleif is a beleif as well.
If something can be lost, it is not worth holding on to. It is not close to the Truth.

What does it matter what we beleive in, or disbeleive in? Lets test it all again, again, by letting it all go. The highest Truth will not be lost.
If it needs protecting, defending, holding on to, then it is not the highest.

To grow, we must let it go.
What remains is truly ours.
Then we let it go again.

That is a lesson for me.