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| Poster: Haha Reply Post Message Date: Thu Nov 24 02:03:23 2005 |
| Subject: Gui Ban PTDT |
| Post No: 2351 Reply to: 2347 |
Friend PTDT, you wrote: " You also said, "anyone not entered Nirvana while living will be reborned at death." How do you know that? You never experience it." Friend PTDT, we are constantly experiencing the cycle of birth and death. The cells in our body are constantly dying and are replaced by the birth of new cells. Our thoughts, ideas, things around us are always changing. On the surface, phenomena appear to be chaos and random. Upon closer observation, however, we find that there is a cause and effect to everything, that birth and death feed one another. Ignorant of the karmic affects of our actions and mental volitions, we chain ourself to the cycle of birth and death. Anyone who is able to break the chain and free himself from this mass of suffering, this cycle of birth and death, is said to have entered Nirvana. When this is, that is. When this isn't, that isn't. From the arising of this, comes the arising of that. From the ceasing of this, comes the ceasing of that. When one is not freed from Samsara, one is subjected to birth and death. Some questions can only be satisfied by meditative observations, not words. |