Quote Originally Posted by 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.

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.

major crisis Reviewed by major crisis on . 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