No, it doesn't really does it.

And, "to" is too short.

try not to over think "is" or "isn't".. life is to short.

3. Were did we come from originally. The earth is only had humans for a million years and only had life for maybe 4.3 billion years. The universe is only 14.5. No one knows if there are other universes, but assuming they are, they had to start at some point. What were we doing before then?

4. When the universe fizzles out, where do we go? To another universe. Or will we all have reached nirvana.

5. Did we get into this whole thing of birth, living, death with our own agreement? Or was this forced? Or in between, was this a trick?

1. There we 1 billion people on earth in 1800. There are about 7 billion now and maybe twice that in another 100 years. Were do some of the new people come from? I was often asked this. The only possible answers I can think of are A. From animals, B. From other life outside of the earth, such as exoplanets in other solar systems. C. That spiritual beings are queued up waiting for new people and so what was a long line in 1800 is a shorter line now. D. That maybe all spiritual beings were one single entity at one point and over time that have been splitting up into different beings but not knowing it — I always find this possiblity fascinating that we were all one at one time, but not anymore.

Especially if you mean the reincarnation where some kind of personality/soul thingy gets popped into a new baby person or a weed or something. That always struck me as kind of the same hopefulness/fear of oblivion that people have when they talk about Heaven. Maybe it does actually exist (along with heavens and eight-armed green deities), but I haven't experienced anything that makes me feel strongly that it does either.

Now if you're talking about reincarnation as the re-establishment of the little self/ego – i.e. thinking that you exist as a separate entity from the rest of the universe — well, that makes a lot more sense to me. The mind rebirths that ego over and over again… Try reading some of the quotes in the other comments with that perspective and maybe it will jive more with you.

Anyway, just my 2 cents.

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the fact that science and psychology have validated so much of the the interior process of meditation practice and the observations of buddhist philosophy makes the core of the dharma more relevant than any other spiritual teaching that has ever existed.

shedding the albatross of the highly improbable transmigration of an immaterial soul – a concept that belongs to the archaic past and is indefensible given what we now know about biology, neuroscience and the cosmos in general, will only move buddhism forward as humanity attempts to transition out of mythic literalist religious silliness and into a viable 21st century spirituality.

precisely because buddhism has so much that makes it extraordinarily wise and ahead of its time in comparison to the other faiths, it would do well to relinquish the superstitious beliefs that make it seem like just another religion.

i too am a buddhist and i find reincarnation ludicrous!