#Death Is An End Or A New Or A Transmigration?
Author: Ethereal ButReal
Date: 15th February 2022
Keywords: #rebirth, #live, #ethic, #meritocracies
Length: 439 words
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Thinking about #death, we feel sadness or anxiety in the face of such
profound insecurity.
The practical advice to work with #death is to see it as an opportunity
and attune to the dynamic vast nature of reality, so that #death is no
longer viewed as an ending, but as another exploration and precious
opportunity on the path of waking up and starting a new existence or
#rebirth.
Science has given people the idea that biological #death is the absolute
end whereas spiritualists have believed that body is only a vessel that
carries the eternal energetic aspect of our consciousness called the
soul to its next logical destination. It is a belief that during this journey,
the soul changes many bodies, is reborn in many forms, and goes
through many births and #deaths.
In Buddhist belief systems, it provides an explanation of death that
some part of the person would #live on in a cycle of #rebirth called
samsara; except for the enlightened few, most of us never know
whether or how we are related to others. According to the Buddhist
doctrine of #rebirth, we are connected to many more #lives and beings
across both time and space than we can ever realize.
The #ethics of #rebirth suggests that because we do not know how we
are connected to the universe and the people, so it is best that we act
kindly and calmly toward everything and everyone.
The notion of the Law of Kamma which deeply involves in the system
of #rebirth suggests that we are the products of other #lives and the
creators of other futures, and thus share a global and temporal
interdependence. Therefore, part of our task as humans is to be aware
of what we might accidentally replicate from our past and thus
unknowingly recreate in the future. So it is wise to check and guard our
thoughts, speeches and actions with skillful means and positivity.
The doctrine of #rebirth in another perspective has often been used by
many Buddhists to justify why some people deserve good or bad things,
based on the actions that they supposedly made in their past #lives,
offering a way of thinking about the present as connected to the deep
past and to any potential futures, it has caused a potential downsides,
especially when it is used to justify people’s positions within a social
order. Perhaps we see this happens in today’s supposed
#meritocracies, which create new caste-like justifications for hierarchy
and inequality.
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