Incarnation versus Reincarnation
[00:00:00] I want to make a quick video clarifying and touching on the distinction between reincarnation and incarnation. Because this is a big sticking point and confusion that spiritual people and non-dual practitioners are falling into. Because you hear so many of the great masters, they advise against reincarnation.
[00:00:27] They say like kind of the whole goal of Buddhism and of these spiritual things is to escape the cycle of reincarnation. It's to step outside of the wheel of samsara and to, yeah, to not reincarnate. But then the confusion around this that is keeping a lot of people stuck is they are conflating an incarnation with a reincarnation.
[00:00:55] There's a very fundamental and key distinction between the two. And what a reincarnation is, the reason reincarnation is bad is because a reincarnation is it's doing an incarnation over again from a place of reactivity, which means that it's coming from fear or lack. It's like if you die in your physical form and then you reincarnate because you're subscribing to a contractive urge of lack and fear, which is telling you that you need to do it over again to try to get it right, basically.
[00:01:39] And that's the entire wheel of samsara. That's like the wheel of karma. Karma means cause and effect. It means being bound to reacting to life. And anytime that you're reacting to life rather than responding or creating, because responding and creating, they're like the opposite of reaction. Like a reaction comes from contraction and fear and lack.
[00:02:08] Whereas a response or a creation or creativity, that comes from expansion, from transcendence, from our infinite nature rather than from our finite nature. But so, yeah, a reincarnation is it's doing an incarnation over again from a place of fear and lack. And that's what's bad. That's what you want to avoid.
[00:02:34] You don't want to be reincarnating. But what's good, what, what's not a problem is an incarnation. What an incarnation is, is it's a creative expression of God into form. Like, to incarnate without it being a reincarnation, that's just to be birthed into form for the sake of enjoying the relative experience, which could be the human experience, or it could be an etheric or astral experience.
[00:03:08] It's any type of incarnation into form. And an incarnation is actually good. Like, this is, like, a, a big sticking point for people is they, they're conflating reincarnation with incarnation, and then so they think that any type of experience and form is bad or that it's a problem, and so that you just shouldn't enjoy your life, um, or you just shouldn't-- Like, they think non-dual people take on this idea that the whole goal of non-duality, they think it's to never reincarnate, and they think that that means to just never be in form again.
[00:03:48] But that's not what it's about. It's not about never incarnating. Like, incarnating is good. That's a creative, expansive expression of God, and that's what life is supposed to be. We are supposed to be incarnations and to enjoy that and to enjoy the contrast of the relative experience and to be in touch with our infinite, transcendent, non-dual nature.
[00:04:14] Um, it's only reincarnations, trying to do an incarnation again from a place of fear and lack and, and karma, basically. That's what's not good. Um, and so that's really important to, to understand. Like, it, it's, it's, it's a big trap to conflate reincarnation with incarnation. Like, you want to incarnate. Like, you want to enjoy your life.
[00:04:45] And even if your life in this present moment is a reincarnation, there's no point in labeling that a problem or just, like, checking out of life or just saying like, "Oh, well, I just-- I'd never wanna do this again, so it just-- none of it matters. It's all no self, no one doing anything." Like, the kind of, like, neo-Advaita and, like, classic, like, distorted non-dual lines that you'll hear.
[00:05:10] It's because they're confusing this. They, they hear teachers well this is part of it is they hear teachers talk about reincarnation and they're conflating and distorting that with an incarnation. Like you actually want to incarnate. An incarnation is a creative expression of God. And we don't, any type of creativity that you could do, you could say in a way that is an incarnation.
[00:05:35] It's like if you make a piece of art, that in a way is an incarnation. It's a creation into form. It's pulling something from the transcendent, unmanifest absolute, the pure potentiality and it's pulling it, channeling it into form, into incarnate, into the relative. And that's what life is supposed to be.
[00:05:59] That's what life is all about. And so, yeah, it's like even if you are living a life which is a reincarnation, once you awaken to your infinite transcendent non-dual nature, you can break that pattern. You can step outside of the wheel of karma because you can live from the upper two koshas, which is the impersonal transcendent layer, the screen layer, rather than feeling that you're confined to the movie, to the finite layer.
[00:06:29] You have access to the infinite unconditional layer. And that's how you escape the reincarnation trap and you escape the wheel of karma. Like you can actually It's very easy. Like you don't have to like do all these crazy things to not reincarnate or like suffer for thousands of lives or something.
[00:06:54] Like if you're watching this video, you've probably already awoken to the screen layer. And if you watch my videos, you already know how to transmute energies and how to not react to life and how to instead creatively respond to life from the upper two koshas. And that's how you don't reincarnate.
[00:07:19] That's all you need to know to not reincarnate is to just not do things from a place of fear and lack. Like basically the way it works on this realm, because we live in a kind of like soul recycling, like prison planet sort of thing. It sounds quite dark, but I mean, that's kind of what it is. Like we live in a realm which is It feeds off of the energy of the infinite beings which inhabit this planet.
[00:07:50] And it feeds off of their energy if it can bait them into contraction and into dualistic ways of being and to cutting off the Knowing of their upper two koshas. Um, so basically the way that it works is when you die, you're essentially-- you'll be visited by like spirit guides or certain kind of things, and the spirit guides, they're essentially-- they're like the g- the guardians of the prison.
[00:08:21] They're like the prison guards. And-- But the whole way it works is that because you are a sovereign, infinite being, you can only experience what you consent to. The spirit guides is they're basically trying to trick you into consenting into reincarnating. So they will, like, tell you certain things like, "Oh, you know, you didn't do so good right here, so you better come back."
[00:08:46] And then that's them trying to implant that, that root sense of lack or fear that kind of-- They're, they're, they're inviting you into reactivity. And then if you bite that bait, if you bite the bait of the lower mind, of the, the, the, the dualistic central server, and you plug into that, then you unfold that associated experience.
[00:09:11] And then you reincarnate, and you, you basically do your incarnation over again from a place of fear and lack. So it's like you're going into the incarnation already off on a bad foot 'cause you're going into it already in fear and lack and, like, spinning on the wheel of samsara. Um, but it's actually very simple and easy not to reincarnate.
[00:09:37] It's just learning not to react to life, to just live from the upper two koshas, from the transcendent, impersonal screen layer. And because when you live from the transcendent, impersonal screen layer, that's the layer which allows things to be as they are. And so that's how you create some [00:10:00] space between the real you, the transcendent you, and the, the, the confines of the lower three koshas, the mental, emotional, and physical you. Um, because when, when you're completely identified with the lower three koshas, you're essentially always gonna be heavily reactive because you, you believe that that's all that there is.
[00:10:24] And so any time your mind tells you anything, you will essentially always succumb to it because that's all that you think that there is. That's all that you know. Um, but the way to not reincarnate, to, to not react to life is
[00:10:45] when you feel some sort of contraction come up, some sort of fear or lack or negativity or, or something come up,
[00:10:57] you, you recognize that option that you have to not succumb to that primal, instinctual urge to do what your lower mind tells you to do with the feeling of discomfort. Um, so what this looks like is, say you have a fear of public speaking, or you have a fear of, like, like, confrontational, uh, conversations with someone.
[00:11:27] That's a good one. Like, s- that's a big one for people in the spiritual community is, like, fear of intensity or aggression or, like, confrontation. Um, so say you have a fear of confrontational, intense interactions. When you go into that interaction, you will feel some sort of contraction come up in your body.
[00:11:49] That's the fear. That's the lack. It will come up as, like, a shot to your chest or, like, a shot to your gut or, like, your throat shutting down or, like, something in your system, like, getting very heavily contracted. And then as that contraction comes up- You can start to notice the split-second decision that happens where the lower mind, it detects that contraction, and then it's, on a pre-verbal level, it's labeling it a problem.
[00:12:19] It's afraid of it, and so it goes into some sort of movement or action or story to subtly redirect or suppress or do something with that feeling of contraction other than allowing it to be exactly as it is. But as you awaken to the upper two Koshas and you learn how to transmute energy, the way that you transmute energy is rather than succumbing to that split-second urge to contract around the contraction or to subtly redirect or suppress or avoid or push on the contraction, you realize that you can just allow it to be exactly as it is.
[00:13:07] Even if you have some fear or contraction coming up in your body, you can allow that to be exactly as it is. Um, and the more that you allow things to be exactly as they are, even during the intense moments, that's how you transmute the energy, 'cause that's how you're disconnecting your energy supply from it.
[00:13:27] You're stepping outside of the, the reactivity. And the, the reactivity, that's the wheel of karma. That's the wheel of samsara. And that's also why the symbolism, if you look at a- an image of a wheel of karma or the wheel of samsara, or even in the Bible, the, the symbolism of the serpent which baits Adam and Eve.
[00:13:50] The reason that the serpent is used to symbolize the wheel of karma, the descent into suffering, is it's, it's a snake... If you look at the pictures, it's a snake with its tail in its mouth, and the reason that that symbolizes reactivity is because the, the snake is essentially, it's caught in this eternal trap where it's biting its own tail, and then it gets afraid and fearful because it feels the pain of its tail being bitten, and then it reacts to that fear and that pain by clenching even harder, and then it bites even harder, and then it's more pain, and then it bites harder, and then it's more pain, and then it keeps contracting and contracting.
[00:14:35] But the way for the snake to escape that trap isn't in contracting or efforting even harder. It's in allowing the pain to be exactly as it is, because that's the snake's problem, is it reacts to the contraction. It reacts to the pain by clamping down, and then that- Creates more contraction. Then it's biting its own tail even harder, and then it's stuck in this eternal loop.
[00:15:05] But when the snake can start to relax and allow things to be as they are, and to not succumb to that primal instinctual urge to contract around the contraction, that's how the snake can actually start to withdraw its tail from its own mouth. That's how it can start to escape the trap, and that's how you escape the wheel of samsara.
[00:15:28] That's how you escape reincarnation, is just by learning not to react to life from fear and lack, and to instead respond to life from wisdom and presence and creativity. And, like, for the snake in that example, the wise thing to do is not to clamp down any harder. The wise thing to do is to allow the pain to be as it is, and then by allowing things to be as they are, it starts to let go of that bite, and then the tail can start to unravel.
[00:16:01] It can start to come out of its mouth, and then that's how it escapes the trap. Um, and so yeah, that's, that's what reincarnation and incarnation is about. Incarnation is good. Like, like spirituality and non-duality, it's not about saying the relative world doesn't matter or you just shouldn't enjoy your life.
[00:16:24] Like, ultimately, you incarnated in form for the purpose of enjoying form, for the purpose of awakening to your infinite transcendent nature, and to enjoy the contrast. Like, enjoy the contrast of the relative and of the human experience, but from the fearlessness and the, the, the, the fulfillment and the, the, the access to the infinite intelligence and infinite love of the transcendent layer, of the screen layer.
[00:16:53] It's like, it's like Jesus' thing of being in the world, but not of the world. It's like you want to fully enjoy the relative and enjoy incarnation, but not from a place of fear and lack and reincarnation. You want to enjoy it from creativity, inspiration, intuition, infinite love and, and wisdom and all of the amazing things.
[00:17:18] Um, but so yeah, that's really key to understand. That's what it's all about. It's not about, um... It's not about getting rid of incarnation. Incarnation is good. And I mean, ultimately, as the infinite sovereign being, if you don't want to incarnate, you don't have to do that either. But you're already incarnated.
[00:17:45] You're already in form, so you may as well enjoy it and, like, have a good time and live from your creative, infinite nature. Um, and,
[00:18:00] and yeah. That that's, uh, that's the distinction is reincarnation, it's, it's doing an incarnation over again from a place of fear and lack. But an incarnation is a creative expression of God, and that's the entire purpose of the relative experience is to enjoy the relative. Like, you'll hear non-dual people say that the whole purpose of life is just to wake up to the absolute.
[00:18:27] But that is not true. Like, that's part of it, but it's not to just wake up to the absolute and then say the relative doesn't matter. It's to wake up to the absolute within the relative and then to enjoy the relative from fearlessness and from your infinite higher nature. Like, that's the joy. That's what an incarnation is about.
[00:18:49] That's the purpose of awakening to the absolute, of awakening to the screen, is to make the movie even better. It's so that you can enjoy the movie from freedom and fulfillment rather than lack and reactivity. And to bring it back to the image of the snake, when the snake has its tail in its mouth, it's ca- it, it's trapped.
[00:19:12] It's in bondage. It's not free because it's stuck in this wheel of samsara. But when it relaxes and it lets go and it allows things to be as they are, those reactive energies, those contractive loops, they start to unwind and withdraw, and then the snake's tail begins to leave its mouth. And then as it stops biting its mouth, it's free.
[00:19:38] It can go wherever it wants. It's totally free. It's no longer in bondage. It's escaped the, the, the trap of samsara, the, the, the trap of reincarnation, and then it can enjoy its in-
[00:19:50] incarnation in the fullest and most liberated po- way possible. It can go wherever it wants, do anything it wants, and it can follow [00:20:00] inspiration and love and joy. Um, and so yeah. That's my message on incarnation and reincarnation. Hope you guys enjoy. Much love
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