Not all Buddhists "believe" in reincarnation, only the religious types do. The colourful ripple in space-time that was Adam Yauch is no more, and that is all.

Time to get Ill was.... ill
Totally justified my underage drinking and, of, splashing beer on hoes

Now thats the MCA I grew up to, dench!




ok ok ok. does this mean we're gonna get an

MCA HOLOGRAM ???

I hated them nearly as much as New Order for taking the piss out of heavy metal.

Then I grew to love them.

I'm blasting Paul's Boutique full volume here.

Any one that can rip off Doug E Fresh and the Get Fresh Crew so blatantly deserves respect.



It's a nice place to visit, but a better place to rob!

Did Time To Get Ill for a high school talent show. Got drunk as hell with friends, stuck a mic next to a boom box, got laughed off stage, had a blast.

dam now I cant decide which one is my fav again..
hey, it was a blur back then
Let it go, Let yourself go, Slow and low that is the tempo..
deennchhh!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZmKJfxy3zk
this needs to be rinsed!!

So what you say to a buddhist?

.. RIP for a while, maybe?

Better "RIN" - for Rest In Nirvana...

BTW, ALL buddhists believe in reincarnation, otherwise there aren't buddhists. But they also believe that it's possible to escape the circle of samsara (the world we live in with all the reincarnations) by practicing meditation.

But at the age of 47, I think it's to early to get out of samsara...

That's what I was thinking.

There are Buddhist schools that have retained a lot of their religious heritage, with the roots going back to Vedic beliefs, which are also a precursor to modern-day Hinduism. Hence the belief in reincarnation, superhuman deities/demons and the definition of Karma that these two share. These can primarily be found in south-east Asia, and in Tibet. Other Buddhists (especially of the Chan/Zen school) reject these kinds of beliefs. To them, there is no before or after, there is only ever an unbroken now. Our view of space-time as a straight line is, to these Buddhists, an illusion, just as our idea of the world being made of distinct objects is a superficial illusion. A Zen Buddhist would probably not say anything at all, he would rather perform some sort of act that occurred to him intuitively.
He would also very likely not post on KVR.

Sorry for OT, I think Yauch was of the Tibetan persuasion, so perhaps "Rest til you return" is appropriate.

That is incorrect. I would even contend that people who "believe" in anything haven't actually understood Buddhism at all, or that any attempt to define a Buddhist is like eating the recipe instead of the meal, but that would definitely derail this thread.

I like that.

I'll say see you in the next life maybe.

The most Zen buddhists I have known believe in rebirth and reincarnation. But they are practicing Zen because they want to get out of it.

It is not said that a Zen buddhist wouldn't post on KVR. There are some advanced buddhists that still make music. As long as you live in samsara, you have to do some samsara things, you can't sit there and meditate the whole day without doing anything (not even in the monastry).

So I don't know how much advanced Yauch was (as a buddhist), but 47 is too early to die...

Too bad Rinzai is long dead, he would whack them with a stick until they realized their foolishness.

Seriously, and last post on this topic, reincarnation and rebirth are symbols, not reality. You're not really eating the body of Christ at communion. Samsara is a metaphor, often poorly understood.
If you want to go on believing in symbols, that is good if it makes you and others happy. But it usually doesn't. It's just another way to inflate the ego and to distract from life.