I'm not sure if I believe in reincarnation or not but I had a very weird experience when I was about 12 yrs old. My family was going on vacation to Florida for the first time and as we were driving through this small town in South Carolina I immediately knew the entire layout of the town. It all felt so familiar but I had never been there before. At one point as my dad was going to make a right turn I said, "Down this street in 3 blocks you will see the courthouse and there will be a brick Presbyterian church next to it." And sure enough there was. "How did you know that?" my dad asked. I told him I had no idea. It was a very odd experience but I knew the town like the back of my hand. So maybe I lived there in a previous life. It's fascinating to contemplate.

I love uncle monk. I say this because his nieces and nephews call him this. He’s a great inspiration to us in these unpleasant political times . Namaste 🙏🏻

here in Brazil we had a man called Chico Xavier, a great kardecist medium and master, who had contact with many and many spirits in the Bardo (after death) and he affirmed the reincarnation.

I personally believe in reincarnation

We are all energy, and energy never dies.

“... Falling in love...”. I feel when we fall in love strongly with someone, we’re connecting and remembering someone who we’ve known in a previous life who now lives in this person we’ve fallen in love with. It makes perfect sense since we never really “die” but go on life to life.

Three generations in my family have memories of a past life. One could feel the uniform buttons on what she believed to be from the Civil-War....

I grew up in Central Scotland in the mid-60s. As a kid of, I think around 7 or 8, my dad drove me, my mum and brother to a beautiful area of Scotland called The Trossachs. I couldn't help thinking that I knew this place from before. It felt as though I knew this place but I couldn't put my finger on why I recognised the scenery so much. Anyway, in 2003, I went to Northern India and it was when I was in a taxi going to Dharamsala, and the beautiful foothills of the Himalayas, that memories of The Trossachs came rushing back - very strongly. I kept saying to myself that I had been here before in a previous life. Looking back to when I was that kid all those years ago, I realised that when I was viewing the beautiful Trossachs scenery, I was in fact remembering the foothills in Northern India from a past life. There was a connection with the British army of which I have yet to connect with.

Under hypnosis a number of health problems I was experiencing in this life were solved by exploring my past lives. It's amazing at how much programming we bring with us into our present life much like buying a new computer. They're not useful unless tools unless there are existing programs installed.

Love Uncle Ajahns talks. I try to soak in as much as I can. His teachings help me spread peace and kindness.

Ajahn Brahm...I finally found you... My respect to such a lovely teacher

Reincarnation, life after death, soul when we analyze and sum it up...the essence of it is human HOPE!!!! Better to have hope than nothing to hold on to....

Ajahn Brahm is an amazing teacher. His "style" is to make light a serious and taboo subject so that it becomes easier for people to open up and learn about it. I've watched plenty of his talks and he is very sincere and is not by all means offensive or anything like that.

Thanks for sharing,a great act of kindness.love and light noella oneness Canada

Reincarnation exists until one leaves the circle of life.

I've become profoundly agnostic,and so many proposed answers to all the big questions I can only answer with,"Perhaps". I try to maintain the attitude that being more virtuous is its own reward,and one life at a time - the next life will take care of itself.What really amuses me to no end is how one person's devout belief is another person's silly superstition!Human faith is a funny thing.

Outstanding! The Eternal spirit soul changes bodies as a person changing old garments for New...

Remembering past lives may be fun, and even informative, but my teacher made the point that one of the dangers of remembering past lives is that one may have been a terrible person that caused many people much pain. And even thou one may have changed their ways, and helped many, the guilt of causing all that pain may be crushing. How would one feel to find out that they were a guard at a place like Auschwitz, and that one killed fathers, mothers, and children? Sometimes the hardest person to forgive is ones self.

I hadn’t ever had a true “déjà vu” moment until I was 17 and I mean more than just feeling the moment being familiar I mean being in a place that I had dreams about WHEN I WAS LIKE 4, it was the most exact scenario where I was looking down at a round table with what child me tried to describe and wrote down in books as “spicy apple juice” and I even tried to draw this mental image to show my mum at the time, I was singing the rhythm to something that sounded similar to “Riptide” as a kid before I had ever heard the song and sure enough at age 17 having forgotten literally everything about that memory and ones like it I was with my mum and dad waiting a bar for a public speaking event to happen by some some old cops in an hour so dad had bought me a cider and sure enough we sat down at a circle bar table with mum on my left dad on my right and when I began freaking out is hearing the exact same melody I’d tried to describe as a child being a live guitarist doing a freestyle/improv version of riptide, I haven’t had this feeling anywhere near as strong since that day and I’m still searching to find out what it was, it wasn’t a past life it was a memory of the future in THIS life, has anyone had a similar experience and can point me in the right direction?

im scared because sometimes i tell the future

Thank you for your video Ajahn. I am a Theravada Buddhist and Christian (Rudolf Steiner Anthroposophy tradition) I experience the 8 Theravada Buddhist Jhanas and the Tathagatha - the Cosmic Buddha. My memory was of my head being blown apart by a mortar bomb, in north west Germany. in WW2.(UK Army) I know my previous name, number, regiment and address! But I accept friendship with modern Germany. But if I get stressed I slip into any of the 8 Buddhist Janas and the Tathagatha. Then all is well. This Planet is small and overcrowded. I think the way out is thru Science and transfer to other Solar Systems and Galaxies. The timelessness of the Buddhist Tathagatha shows how this is done thru refinement and higher studies. Sadhu, Sahdu, Sadhu. Note: I checked my previous army death certificate and it stated "Death by Explosion.' And I know exactly how.!!!!

Thank you & well said

When i rtied meditating i always said i miss you and every time i do that i cry and sometimes i cried when i see poor people because it felt like i am the reason why they are like this

Thank you, reincarnation is real! I have had a few lives.

I used to be a 30 year old courier who rode around on a mule and went by the first name of Niroth. Somewhere around the Middle East I would say near Syria or Nazareth maybe.

I know reincarnation is real! My nde taught me that. It broke me from being religious. Showed me that we don't die. Matter can't get outside of space. Just what if we all are reincarnated and just don't have any rememberance of it.

Because of you and this video I think I know who I was, or at least what I was.

I have many past lives

For some of us there is no doubt at all, because we remember who we were before. There are, in fact, many of us.

We are all spirit, and spirit never dies.

Wow your Amazing... In one on my past lives I drowned I have a phobia of deep water.... I also love the Chanting of monks....

Thanks for sharing, shared.

So well explained.....

New mother's should not wear perfume because it can interfere with the baby's ability to bond with it's mother.

Thanks, Ajahn Brahm.

Finally, an exploration with out all the extra BS. Thank you.

A very strange thing is going on in my life right now I am currently 45yrs old I have been with my wife for 20yrs about 25yrs ago I was selling Kirby vacuum cleaners our team went on a road trip to sell in a different town about 60 mi from home we stopped at one house and I there was a guy that was interested I did my presentation at the end my boss came back to close the deal at one point we were inside the house and my boss said someday you might live in this house I was like why would you say that I'm only 25 I like to live by the beach this house was in the middle of the state later in life around 42 me and my wife were looking for a house I said here's one honey in a different town we wanted a change so we went to look we didn't like it but on our way home my wife spotted a house with a 4sale sign we bought it after about 2 no living there I realized it was the house it blew my mind 20 yes had past I had no memory of that day but over time it all came back to me that has happened to me 2times 2 different houses with no planning at all how does that happen when I was 15 I remember saying at 15 somebody has done allot of work to this house it would be nice to own one day I painted a house that I live in now my wife picked it I had no memory of it until after living there for a while how does this happen

All down to belief ,experience and the inner knowing understanding of what is being shown to oneself and for others🙏

I love when people speak about reincarnation. It is not that I love reincarnating here again and again, but because it helps me realize that maybe there's a possibility for me not reincarnating anymore. I am doing anything I can to get knowledge because I am tired of playing the rich girl, poor girl, the white, black, tall, fat, skinny and more. I 've been all of that now is time to move forward and go back home to the "Supreme Being" where there's no time and no more duality. I've seen a lot of people finding out what they where in the past and not focusing in reaching spiritual freedom. How about becoming One with the Supreme Force or becoming a light being? but of course not everyone thinks like me, but we been dreaming for too long and we been playing our roles for so many years, it is time to wake up and stop playing.

Reincarnation is true.

For me, death follows birth, and we live again. If it wasn't for birth, there would be no death! And on it goes until we reach Enlightenment and realise there was never anybody here in the first place!

I remember my first thought in my cot. Oh no, not again

It's great when someone remembers streets they have never been down, in a country they've never been to. My problem is that I don't remember much about the town I was born in, and lived in for 38 years. I doubt I would remember a place I'd known hundreds of years before.

My experience exactly.

most of my past life mems are spontanious-love to know more

Beautiful

We are part of a much larger organism. Suppose the leaves on a tree decided that they (the leaves) were the point and purpose of the tree's life? In fact, the purpose of this lifetime is to sustain the tree. The purpose of death is to sustain the tree. The purpose of rebirth is to sustain the tree. My goal in this life is the cessation of suffering. The next life will come in it's own time, on it's own terms. No sense in clinging to the ideas or suffering over them.

thank you

Young boy, 9/11, reincarnation of a firefighter. Full story as told by the boy's mother on (and off) a reincarnation forum. Fire in the Soul: Reincarnation from Antietam to Ground Zero.

I am too afraid of finding about my past life.. trying to only look forward being one with God.. I'm sure it is going to take many many more lifetime..

I believe reincarnation is true. Well, no prove of it but only feelings inside me. When I was very young, I always had dreams so real and so scary too. I am so afraid of heights,and had this feelings of falling from a very high buildings. I now believe I am not only in this life but many lives before.

I was shocked to hear you joking about suicides!!!

I too had a strange experience. Once my son barely 4and half yrs starting talking a language totally different than his mother's (mine).he related a story of a man setting out in first person,anaccident and that now his wife is left alone.This recurred after 3 months when he said that the children are earning and they have built another floor on top of their 2 storied house.But @she is become very lonely" he said .Knowing what it was i did not encourage it but but he even described the house in a perticular area in that town 1000 plus miles from where we lived,in that language and terminologies very typical to locals there .Third and final time when it again happened "Now all is okay" He never mentoned his wife so i asked What about her he did notreply and went to sleep.I was intrigued and releaved both .Mostly i thought his wife passed away and he did not get that dream again. Later at 18 yrs of age we travelled to this town and as luck would have it stayed in that locality.So i sent him for some errand from our hotel . On his return i asked if the place was familiar.....How can it be Ma i have never been to this state or town,Conclusion!

Until we have lab rats,we will be lab rats! Meditate.

When Jesus and his posse got to Passover people asked, "Are you Elias (Elijah- Elli-Yah)?) "You must be born again." Eternal life... If all are one in the Body of Christ, isn't reincarnation a moot point?

I have to try this

Be nice to people in this life or you may have to pay a price in the next

Hi Ven Ajahn Brahm,i tried to kow about my past life,i had a very not so clear picture but all i could see is " I can see a child holding a women's hand probably my mother in past life in very big lawn, in a very calm environment somewhere in far west(i'm in Pune(in INDIA now). can you suggest me know get a more clear image Thanks in advance

I used to hum and arr about things like reincarnation and could not make my mind up about these things. That changed but it wasn't a dramatic hallelujah moment. I was with a friend watching the History Channel about the American Civil War. They were talking about a minor battle in Richmond, Virginia and showed a photo of the street where it took place. It was an old photo. I instantly said no that's not right. Just as I said that the commentator said that the photo was taken some years later and the fence, in the photo wasn't there at the time. My friend asked how I knew and I replied without thinking that I was killed there at the battle. I am a Brit and have never been to America and have never wanted to go. As a kid when I had learnt of the civil war I always preferred the Confederate grey. I tried to meditate on this and I have vague memories of being a corporal mustering during the time but no other details come. I think this is because I am inwardly afraid to find everything out.

Uhm, I actually just have a question. I'm not sure if I believe in reincarnation (I think it's possible) but that's not the part of this video that interests me. What I'm interested in is recollection of early events during this life. You talked about how you were able to recall porky the pig , which caught my attention. However, that seems to be the kind of memory that just gets lost over time. What about memories that had been purposefully blocked out? I know that some forms of hypnosis can sometimes cause those memories to surface, but how about meditation or other methods? Are there ways of recalling on your own memories that have been suppressed rather than lost?

Will this information help me control and master the "Avatar State"?

I just found out i had two former lifes before this life. So how can i get in contact with my former lifes and get more information about these two lifes i had before?

Questions: Does this help me get myself to be reborn on February 10, 1990, live with my same parents, and start my life on my new birthdate for real physically? Does this help me travel back to the past physically for real? Does this give me the ability to shift myself to the past date 2/11/1993, change my birthdate to 02/10/1990, live with my same parents, and start my life on that designated date for real physically? Can I also create my desired past or reality like changing my appearance, what life I want, what family do I want, what nationality/ethnicity I want, etc with this? Does this help me get myself to be reborn on February 10, 1990, while changing my appearance, what life I want, what family do I want, and what nationality/ethnicity I want?

They call it dejavu but many times i all my life, weekly almost ive already done this and also when i randomly think of someone they die that week... happened 10-20 times in my life, not sure what it is

Hi, i just cant understand the name of the english actor. Could someone help me writing down his name so i can look for more info?

If we all is Brahman, we should remember all lives.

I don't fancy the idea of reincarnation. I want to move forward and continue with my life after death.

I wish I knew how to feel my previous life, even if I saw how I died, at least I would have pure peace of mind knowing it’s the truth, I do believe in Reincarnation tho.

How can a concept, an idea be reborn? The identity/ego cannot be reborn, only that which is the same in everybody/everything. The absolute/god/the one/the energy/whatever you may call it. You can call it „I“. Because there is only one „I am“. So you are reborn! Always!🙏 There are no other.

Ok so when the part you mentioned about smell i immidieatly remembered the faint but strong smell i get from time to time, everytime i smell it i dont know where its from but its too familiar that i cant help not thinking about it, then a memory comes and all i thought about was my cousin, not someone who i dont know maybe in a oast life or something, but my cousin now which im not really all that close too. And if you were wondering i am a muslim that has a birth mark on my neck

Don't tell mothers not to change perfume - all she needs to do when wearing fresh perfume she needs to hug her baby, touch it, talk to it or make cooing sounds, and it will recognize the mother. Just a minor comment from a fellow Buddhist. What do you think? Lodro Gyatso. Thanks for your talk - it's good.

I had the same dream with the same ppl in the same areas for years. Then my mom took me to a religious person in another county to say stuff that stopped it. Now I have a different reoccurring dream in the same area but different scenarios. Idk. Maybe just a big imagination.

I don't believe what in reincarnation. But somehow, i know what it's like to slit your wrist. Pain is excruciating which leads from your wrist to your heart and then oddly enough, to your jaw. Then the nausea followed by regret. It's a long process. Or is this all in my mind?

Reincarnation or Remember one's former abodes is one of the six types of higher knowledges in Buddhism (Abhijñā ). People who do meditation can get something like these within 7 days 7 months but not more than 7 years.

I'm not a human Im a soul a immortal soul

It’s exponentially harder for me to have these physical experiences because Im a 3rd generation immigrant to America. It’s like having a clean slate.

Nice video. Why do good things happen to bad people and bad things to good people? Is it past life karma and reincarnation?

If it is true it is good...if it is not true it is good...Namo buddhaya...

Want see past life need no what past self like

This venerable one makes light of the heavy. when it is good to carry weight

In the book by Spanos N.P. Multiple Identities and False Memories: A Sociocognitive Perspective the author discredited the memories of past lives (for example, arising during past life regression) as false memories (cryptomnesia).

Amazing story. Thank you bikkhhu. Where does Earth's present seven billion people come from?

I want to know where I can find this muck

I know about several past lives, mostly fractured memories unfortunately. I have a pull towards France for some reason, but no idea yet why. These are just 11 of the things I remember. I am however not the type to believe in the floaty stuff, including religion. I never had a reading, I don't plan on it either. - First one that I can remember is not on this planet, I can not really remember much of it aside from having a pure white body with almost the texture of a dolphin I guess. Big black eyes similar to parallelogram's, no real ears so far I can remember just holes basically. No hair anywhere at all. I can remember a garden I loved to visit daily, all kinds of beautiful plants, trees, animals and none even remotely similar to what Earth has to offer. I remember a small stream from North to South with crystal clear water in it. - Another live that I had was with a second species, not related to Earth. I was a pilot of a ship that was heading for Earth though, we had the assignment to watch Earth as it was a new planet that we found. We were interested in looking for our self's what this planet had to offer. I do not know how I looked aside from my arms being gray and much smaller and thinner then in the previous life. I can remember seeing a Earth that did not hold any human life or dinosaurs, life on the planet was still very early. I do not know how I died, but I did die on this exploration trip. My body was buried in the soil, since the Earth looked a lot different from today I can not really tell where. - I remember being a cave dwelling humanoid, no idea where but I do remember dinosaurs being still out there. I had a pet wolf that was my hunting companion. I remember using both stone as metal tools to prepare food, clothes and some form of shelter to protect everyone from other groups and aggressive animals. - This next one is a rather large gap, not sure why but I have a feeling there were a few more life's between this one and the previous one. But oh well, perhaps I will figure that one out later. I remember being in what is now known as Greenland, I was a warrior that traveled with sailors all over the world as protection. It was a specific task for those with skills that surpassed others. Aside from that, my task was also to pose as a diplomat if you name it in today's idea's. I remember being in what is now the Netherlands, northern part actually. The Romans attacked trying to over take the country which was our trading enclave. I remember fighting Roman soldiers and defeating them easily, even if they out matched us with 20 to 1. None of the Roman soldiers were seasoned warriors like us. I also remember visiting the Inca's in this life, they were dangerous to be around but once they started to know you they would proof to be excellent trading partners. No idea how I was killed. - A life I barely remember is as Viking from Norway. I remember playing as child in the fjords and later in life being a carpenter building furniture and houses, that's about it. - In this life I was somewhere in the early medieval period, I guess around the 1400's. I was a plain simple farmer, but after my wife and kids were murdered I took up arms and killed a lot of enemies. I however do not remember much of this life. - In this life I was in Japan, I was fighting a clan war as ninja. Which meant I was basically a spy, I provided information to my leader. But a traitor pointed me out and I was killed trying to defend myself while I was trying to flee. I was stabbed with a spear that impaled my body entirely killing me instantly. - In this life I was a sailor on a 17th century war ship, I think it's a Dutch warship. I was fighting the British and died by a gun shot to the chest, it struck just right of my heart. I did suffer for a while, I don't know how long but the battle was not finished when I died. - I remember this faintly, I was warned of this next life. I was urged to either get away or train hard and fight. I was on a space ship when someone told me this. This life did not take long though, I died because of a leak in the ship causing the room I was in to be without air and heat. A freak accident. - World War 2: I was a officer in the U.S. Army landing on one of the D-Day beaches, I did survive that battle but died later in the war. I do not know further details aside from remembering leaving the landing craft and running towards the beach trying to get on top of the dunes with my men. Most of my men unfortunately died, I took in stragglers from other units. - I did wake up in a new body during World War 2, but I can not remember living any longer then 5 years. Likely even less. I was killed by my own mother who felt I was to blame as being male for her problems, I woke up in this life.

hypnotic regression is not something that was mentioned by Lord Buddha.. But the way to see our previous lives is clearly described in Buddhism. But it's not an easy path to follow..

I think there is ample evidence too that the highly revered swamiji has never put in a honest days work in his life.

THE HUMAN BODY IS ONLY CLOTHING AND AS FOR ACTUAL CLOTHING IT WEAR AND TEAR AND WE HAVE TO BUY NEW ONES.THE VERY SAME WITH THE BODY.......

Hi. How do you know it is you. I have asked this question some say you just know.

It remains a myth for most until one is able to directly perceive ones own past life. If it is really so important we should meditate vigorously. It is said that for an average person, five years will enable one to remember his or her past life. After that one would be able to progress on the spiritual path knowing how futile and meaningless our worldly pursuits are.

a while back maybe 1 year ago i saw a random girl in town and i swear i saw her somewhere before and we where close. but i didn't even know the girl.

When does this merry-go-round stop so that I can finally be with my Creator?

I am curious of this topic and trying figure it out like everyone else. So If nobody was born into existence meaning the energy was present in other beings before it became you, were does population growth come into play or are the energies dividable or obtainable from the outside or even inter-dimensionable? Say if everyone on the planet had 1,000,000,000 kids each generation or until there were more humans alive than have died in history say growth on that level was possible. Where would we acquire more energies to meet the growth of the population (qty more than humans that have lived and died)? Or lets re-word this. If we got all living things to reproduce more energies (souls reincarnated) than have died in the past and say that was possible, would we obtain more already existing energies from outside the planet/galaxy, or dimension to meet the demand since energies cannot be created from nothing? I am not criticizing, just trying to make sense of it. Or would energies divide so the next life could be two or more different lives simultaneously reincarnated? And maybe thats how we populate the cosmos from spiritual to physical form?

What's a "one way system?"

Lots of cases like that.

i do believe i have lived many many lives not just one . I know dreams are just that dreams once and a while i will have a death dream . and they are never the same .Once i dreamed i died in a fiery plane crash . another i dreamed i was bitten by a huge cat while i was in the driver seat of a very old truck , The reason i say these dreams are different is because it is like it is as real as i am typing this message , Now i am not saying i was anybody famous by far i was always a normal person living life like every other jo . I am not saying Religion is wrong either i am saying i have dreams were i have died . many times over .I do believe the soul carrys on after death ,. I am not sure how immident after death i have been re born . maybe it was fast maybe it took a Milinia .but i believe i have been here before .

How long after death does reincarnation happen? I'm curious to know if my sister and parents have reincarnated already

people should never forget that the only thing that is for sure in this life, is death!

Are why not the all, the totality of of existence? We are circumstantial beings existing as 'form' not substance dependant on everything that is at each each moment. Identifying with a single linear thread of causality, amidst an infinite tapestry of life, as the self is a mistake. The idea of the self as a single entity that travels through cycles of reincarnation is only our imagination

whats my past life ,sir

Human beings are living things, so let's restrict discussions on human beings in reincarnation and leave out the discussion of other living things eg animals, plants etc. When a human baby is born, it has a "mind" or a "spirit" or a "soul" or a "energy" in the baby. It's all the same, it is energy. So the "mind" is energy, the "soul",the "spirit " they are all energy. Now energy cannot be created or destroyed. It's a fact. For all action, there is a reaction, this is also a fact. Energy can only be transformed. You start a fire by burning wood, the wood transformed and you have fire and smoke. One form of energy to another form. A predator eats a prey, the energy and meat from the prey is transformed to making the predator bigger. The sun heats up the ocean. Water becomes vapors, rises up and later become water again as rain. So there is an infinity of examples about an energy cannot be destroyed. So the baby grows up becomes an old man and dies. The energy ( i.e. mind,soul,spirit) leaves the physical body and starts with another baby. The energy does not leave its physical self until the latter cannot continue anymore, through old age or other fatal reasons. Because energy cannot be destroyed, this reasoning supports reincarnation. The more people believe in reincarnation, the better the world will be. Bear in mind, different people have different threshold of what is right or what is wrong due to their religious background, life experiences, jealousy and upbringing. Some will not kill any living thing e.g. ants, cockroaches, snakes etc, others will kill such creatures with no guilt and there are others who would kill fellow humans without second thoughts. Believing in reincarnation will ensure people will do reasonable things and not screw around with other people's lives as fearing of retribution in their next lives is a deterrent.