A few things on Buddhism I could use some clarification on...

[mrdevious]

*sigh*

The whole basis of enlightenment in buddhism is freeing yourself from the wheel of karma. I've researched it thoroughly.

mrdevious Reviewed by mrdevious on 08-25-2005. A few things on Buddhism I could use some clarification on... I've read about buddhism a lot in the past year, but I'm still not totally clear of their views on the after life and devine (I do know they don't have a god). anywhoo, the way things work is that ignorance and craving are the cause of suffering, which is the cause of continuous rebirth. When one reaches enlightenment, you're freed of suffering, ignorance, craving, and apparently have the "final extinction" at which point the cycle of rebirth is stopped. Now my first question is, why Rating: 5

[SpiritualExcess]

yah, technically when it comes to enlightenment there is no good or bad karma (action). Any karma will weigh you down to the cycle of death and rebirth.

[major crisis]

*sigh*

The whole basis of enlightenment in buddhism is freeing yourself from the wheel of karma. I've researched it thoroughly.

I know *sigh*

But what I was saying is that Nirvana is not a place, rather a state of mind/spirit. and it's also finite, it doesn't last forever. It's a moment of complete happyness after you die/end a set of lives that complete a cycle.
then a new cycle begins. Nirvana is not static, that's what I meant.

didn't you ask about what happens when a Soul reaches enlightenment?
you were a bit confused about what would happen then, you even said something that I find very curious and beautiful; you said: going into the force.

[major crisis]

yah, technically when it comes to enlightenment there is no good or bad karma (action). Any karma will weigh you down to the cycle of death and rebirth.

there is heavier Karma than others, it depends on what one has to teach/suffer/learn and this is directly related to what one has done, said, lived like.

what I was meditating about is the feeling of good death or bad death, this in the sense that not everybody dies the same way - feeling the same way, feeling the same "death flash" I mean; the way Death comes to the individual is directly related to his/her Karma, the sensation when dying, I meant.