Understanding reincarnation

I don't think Buddha predicted the future either. However, they probably looked at past lives (past reincarnations), noticed laws, and predicted the future.
As a Buddhist doctrine, there are ideas that cannot be established without assuming reincarnation.
My personal answer is that Buddhism is a teaching of ascetic practices to eliminate and control worries and suffering, so if believing in reincarnation reduces worries or encourages ascetic practice, then I think it is better to believe in reincarnation.
However, in Japan, it seems that everyone was afraid of going to hell around the Heian period, and from that historical background, the Jodo sect, where anyone can pass away to the Pure Land of Paradise with nenbutsu, became popular.
In Tsuzazenkusa, it is said that Honen said, “If you doubt it, you can pass away if you are nembutsu.”
Even if you doubt it, the Buddha will save you if you practice (nembutsu), so you don't need to worry too much about it.

appending
Reincarnation immediately becomes a different creature after death, so it can be said that it soon becomes a new body.
So it's a little different from the feeling of an ancient Japanese myth called the world after death (the land of Hell).
There is no world of the dead who live in their souls; there is only a world of living creatures.

Buddha is an enlightened Buddha.
It was explained that we are reincarnating by looking through everything.
The law of reincarnation is self-earned.
In other words, if you do good things, you will be born in a good place; if you do bad things, you will be born in a bad place.
It is explained that this reincarnation has been repeated since a long time ago.
Buddhism teaches how to break free from the repetition of this six-way reincarnation and become a “Buddha,” the state of life for the 7th time.
So if there is no reincarnation, then there is no point in becoming a Buddha, and it is no longer Buddhism.

Is the state of “life” seen from the state of enlightenment true?
Only the Buddha knows that.
Human wisdom does not extend at all when it comes to the world before birth or the world after death.
That's why we live our lives by turning things we don't know into “nothing.”

I am a believer in Buddhism.
That's why I accept the wisdom of the Buddha as it is.
Buddhism listens to Buddha's wisdom.
In other words, check what is explained in the sutras.

The story “I think ○○” is not a Buddhist story.

The principal image of the Jodo Shinshu is Amida Nyorai.
The blessing of Amida Nyorai is to “write off my actions and make sure to become a Buddha in the next life.”
So there's no need to work hard for good things.
You can just leave it up to me, so I'm never afraid to die.

Rikudo Reincarnation ❝ thought ❞ is just thought.
It is a folk thought, and it cannot be said that Buddhism = Buddha (the teachings of the wise).
It is confused with Buddhism, but it's fine if you think of reincarnation as a thought and practice that has been rooted in India since before Buddhism. Just as there is that public opinion in Japan, there are differences in public opinion all over the world.
At that time, there were various ideas and customs in India, and Buddha explained how to be saved from such folk thought and the idea called Rikudo Reincarnation, and that one should be freed from reincarnation and seek enlightenment, and Buddha did not preach the idea of the Rikudo Reincarnation. ←I feel like this is a place that is misunderstood even in the monk industry.
Japan and every country have such ❝ practices ❞.
The idea of the Rokudō Reincarnation is not Buddhism; it is only the folk thought “practice” and “that public opinion” of the private sector, and it is only to the extent that it has been incorporated and used in explaining Buddhism.
To put it simply, if you do bad things to children or adults, they will go to hell, so you can say morality or old psychology to prevent them from doing bad things.
6 days above the sky and happy state (temporary comfort)
5. A state where there is no salvation bound by human values, ideas, and logic
4. Shura War/Quarrel/State of Conflict
3. A state of frenzy where people commit non-human acts
2 Gakki: An egocentric state of selfishness
1. A state of suffering in hell.
That kind of mentality is what we look like, so it's no good if we keep looping around in such places forever because there's no salvation! It's a commandment.
I even told them to change the endless loop of life called the Rokudō Reincarnation, take the 7th step, and walk in Buddhism.
The seven voices, eight enkaku, nine bodhisattvas, and ten Buddhas are combined in the six realms, called the Ten Realms.
There are anecdotal Buddhist stories that are funny and easy to understand, just as Santa was born in Christian culture. Anecdotes are convenient for conveying the contents of Buddhist teachings in an easy-to-understand manner through stories, and the main ones are mainly the contents intended to be conveyed through the creation. Therefore, the theory of the Rokudō Reincarnation is a sub-convenience that explains that we should get away from there and seek enlightenment, and the main thing is simply to develop a bodhi heart from there, be reborn better, and walk in Buddhism.

Megumi-sama

This is Kawaguchi Hidetoshi. This is my humble answer to the question.

I wonder if a certain Buddhist TV program is about Butchake-ji Temple. Hasunoha's answer A few monks have also appeared, so if you have any questions on the program, please ask Hasunoha a question (laughs)

Now, “reincarnation” is a state where people lose their way and continue to suffer, as if they were going round and round, and “reincarnation” is a situation where a continuum of mind unfolds and continues.

“Rokudo” is a world expressed by classifying symbolic states of mind into six representative categories, and when it comes to whether or not they actually exist, it is an ambiguous way of saying that there is a humane and animal life path, but the rest of the world can be said to exist or not... Well, please understand that the state of mind is a major classification of states.

The world after death should basically be treated as “unrecorded” (something that is useless to discuss and consider) in Buddhism, but I think it should be talked about when necessary for convenience.

In the case of Buddhism, death only means physical death, and even if the body dies, the mind survives and is inherited. We will be dealing with minute consciousness, which is completely different from perception when we have a physical body, and I hope you can understand the details by studying Buddhism from now on.

“When you die, you really just become nothing”... this is rejected in Buddhism as an erroneous view. The theory of annihilation leads to emptiness and absolute nothlessness, and since such a way of thinking deviates from the middle path as an extreme theory, it is something you have to be careful about, and there is no benefit.

Certainly, as Megumi said, the analogy of heaven and hell is also conveniently explained in order to encourage good deeds while living. It's called “causal retribution,” but since the law in this world, the “law of causality” as reason, is also the basic idea of Buddhism, I think the more you understand it, the more convinced you may be.

Anyway, it's important not to believe anything, doubt it, and examine until you're satisfied. I would be grateful if you would continue to be interested in Buddhism in the future.

Kawaguchi Hidetoshi Gassho