XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.zen, alt.philosophy.taoism   
   From: wudao@wuji.net   
      
   Ummmmmmm   
      
   >No-one knows for sure whether we have lived past lives, or whether we'll   
   >live again later. That too is a matter of opinion.   
      
   Generally speaking it can be good to not generalize too much.   
      
   If someone knows for sure one has lived past lives, e.g. Buddha,   
   or Yogananda, or a three-year-old who has yet to forget,   
   then that one has. And if that one remembers who   
   one's mother, father, sister, brother et al were   
   then that's simply what is/was recalled.   
      
   Whether that one knows whether, 'we' have lived past lives,   
   or whether we'll live later, might be a matter of opinion.   
      
   It could be a matter of opinion that it's a matter of opinion.   
      
   How someone could know for sure it's a matter of opinion   
   might fall into some epistemological realm.   
      
   I can't say for sure if it is nor if it isn't a matter of opinion.   
   Nor if Yogananda or anyone else has actually recalled   
   a past life or many lives. Including mine.   
      
   Yet I would not rule out the possibility.   
   I like to believe in various potentials.   
   And, at times, to try and be accurate   
   in terms of terms used and such speaking.   
      
   - of realities, unusually   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)