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Originally Posted by Rain95

Buddha never said there was no soul. But then he didn't say there was one either. People sometimes miss the point of Buddha. He was trying to get people to DO IT ya know. Stop talking and thinking about it, DO IT, LIVE IT, BE IT! Buddha had zero interest in starting a religion. The world already had enough religions. That's why Buddha did not write anything down. Buddha was trying to teach and show the people alive around him how to discover this thing he found. How to live life in a new way.

So Buddha was anti belief. Any belief. That was Buddha's whole point. Take your attention off of the conceptual. Look at the actual. I don't know if people understand that word conceptual, what it refers to exactly.

The non-conceptual world is the one that exists apart from thought and thinking. It can be experienced but that requires taking the attention off of thought and thinking and that is where the attention normally resides.

So Buddha found this way of being and was obsessed with communicating to others how to achieve it for themselves. Talking about god, souls, past lives or anything meant the attention was on thinking.... so Buddha would not go there and was asking others to not go there as well.

Rain, Buddha did speak of Past Lives frequently.