(12-02-2017, 04:13 AM)loostudent Wrote: What changed in my views is the serious possibility of reincarnation although I don't know if I really understand this. According to LOO not only body but also much of personality is dust in the wind. After death much is lost. It is as if I'm vanished and someone else enters my next incarnation. I don't know if I can accept such impermanent existence of self and how would this effect my daily life.
Well I think it makes sense that the personality, when it is so heavily dependant upon life factors, is dust in the wind. Your personality is a lot just having your current name, your current father having treated you as he did, you current mother having treated you as she did, your brothers and sisters and the impact they had on you, whom was on your path for you to meet, how was the society surrounding it and what values it taught you from the point of view of exactly when and where and with whom you stood in it, what language you were taught to explore yourself through, etc.
How different would you be with different parents, 3000 years before now, in a country of barbaric war and famine. Probably much unlike how you are here and now even if what enters that life is that exact exact exact same state of spirit that has started your current life.
Beyond reincarnation, even if you were just made amnesic, your personality would develop otherwise anew and would conflict and have the same sense of loss were the amnesia to start wearing off and the old personality was resurfacing.