(December 29, 2015 at 7:30 am)miaharun Wrote:(December 29, 2015 at 7:17 am)RaphielDrake Wrote: Hang on. Doesn't reincarnation also do that?
You have an endless chain of reincarnated lives which basically translates into immortality. What happens if you're a total shit? You get turned into a bug or something in the next life. So what? Thats like a pretty short sentence if you're a serial killer or something.
Like no matter what I do I know I can eventually work my way up to being a human again. There is literally no real punishment for anything in your religion. Its all part of the eternal loop of death and rebirth leading to the leap that takes Sam Beckett home to becoming one with Buddha.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjK9GJMBpt0
Of course Sir. If one is a serial killer (according to what i believe) the consequences can be devastating. In this life or the next ones. If one is born as a animal it is very very difficult to attain a human life because an animal brings Karma on instinct. If it's a lion , the intention is killing and killing. It will be very difficult to get out of that life. I know I'm talking " Mambo-Jumbo" to you, since you asked i explained. Punishment can vary, either your born deformed, with diseases, have a heart attack at a young age etc etc. The Buddha has thought that the universe is expanding and closing and that is a cycle. Nothing is eternal. One doesn't have to be the Buddha to seize to exist. Nirvana could be achieved after attaining Buddhahood, Pase Budhu and Maha Rahath states. Again , "Mambo-Jambo" to you.
Right but no matter what I do I can eventually attain Nirvana right? And I never really die. So that means I have eternity to attain it so its a certainty I'll get there. I could kill aload of people in this life, make up for it in the next couple of lives and get back on track.
Nothing I do really matters. If I do the most horrific things imaginable I will in-time still get to the same destination as someone who did everything right from day one.
Theres no real deterrent against doing evil.
"That is not dead which can eternal lie and with strange aeons even death may die."
- Abdul Alhazred.
- Abdul Alhazred.