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originally posted by: blueman12
a reply to: FamCore
I would assume that you would be free to go. Heaven was only created for a sale. The sale is no longer possible and heaven is no longer needed.
HOWEVER, I believe that you are not your human self in the afterlife. You are a soul, or consciousness. You are not your personality. You are not your human mind. Therfor, knowing that this afterlife is an illusion requires immense awareness.
Maybe that is where "enlightenment" comes in. One can see past the illusion of life and death. Wether human or pure consciousness.
This is all pure speculation though. Itd be better to ask a "buddha" about this .
originally posted by: blueman12
a reply to: veracity
Why do you believe in karma? Ive heard buddhists speak of it, and ive heard an enlightend man say there is no real karama.
Why choose to live a life with karma? Why would we carry baggage to a new life?
Is karma just the eastern equivelant of Heaven and Hell? A religious way of encouraging good behavior.
originally posted by: blueman12
a reply to: FamCore
HOWEVER, I believe that you are not your human self in the afterlife. You are a soul, or consciousness. You are not your personality. You are not your human mind. Therfor, knowing that this afterlife is an illusion requires immense awareness.
originally posted by: chris_stibrany
a reply to: cooperton
Exactly. It is about making your soul light, having no energetic entanglement and being free of fear and guilt.
You can be a pagan, a Christian a muslim etc but whether you use the tools of Devotion, Mysticism, Magick, Astral Projection, if you use your tools right, you will free your soul from the wheel of samsara and rebirth. It won't happen this incarnation most likely, but it will happen eventually. It's simple physics. Good luck all and stay joyful. Recognise too that there is a proper function for the negative, this is not all fairies and light. Both poles have to be experienced fully in order to rise above them.
originally posted by: veracity
"Is karma just the eastern equivelant of Heaven and Hell? A religious way of encouraging good behavior. "
Yeeeeahhh...I guess its sort of like that, to me at least. However, its real.
"Why choose to live a life with karma? Why would we carry baggage to a new life? "
We don't have a choice, we have to carry our baggage
originally posted by: yosako
Probably the best is to completely ditch such "toolkit".
originally posted by: chris_stibrany
a reply to: cooperton
It won't happen this incarnation most likely, but it will happen eventually.
originally posted by: veracity
a reply to: yosako
YES! That is why we are put in these earthsuites...to right our wrongs.
originally posted by: cooperton
originally posted by: yosako
Probably the best is to completely ditch such "toolkit".
Paradoxically, there is a tool in the Buddhist toolkit called "Prajnaparamita", which claims the last step unto self-realization (enlightenment) is the abandonment of all your others tools (concepts, beliefs, etc)
originally posted by: chris_stibrany
a reply to: cooperton
It won't happen this incarnation most likely, but it will happen eventually.
What better incarnation than this? What better time than now?