ANYONE CAN GO TO HEAVEN, JUST BE GOOD!
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Let's put it this way, when you die, supernatural powers are not going to be of much use. It is like money, beauty, fame etc. All these supernatural powers are transient. And also, without wisdom, supernatural powers are not consistent and not 100% within one's control, also they can fade away when certain conditions are no longer there. Basically, it is like good luck... sometimes have it, sometimes no.
One teacher once said, if you are seeking psychic powers, just go and knock your head on the wall and die. When you are in the bardo, you have alot of supernatural abilities eg. knowing others thoughts etc... of course this is just humour... don't take it seriously hor...
When we practice, whatever form of Buddhism, the minimum criteria is confidence in facing death. I myself feel that this is the benchmark and thing to work towards... of course i am not saying Dharma people are so life-denying and only focus on death... but this is a very 100% sure future situation we have to face, so while we treasure life and enjoy it, if we have some sense, we should also make sure our enjoyment continues longer into the future than only this life...
psychic powers is like a short-lived kick... if you have it, then what next? One should always think like that. With afflictions in one's mindstream, no matter how external changes, we will always be suffering... therefore, you should think twice about what you wish for... or you may simply be getting a very lousy bargain for all your time, life and energy invested.
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we should strive and attain Nirvana as our goal. no more coming again to this samsara.
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How do I get rid of hatred, anger, how do I do it? Should I just ignore it like supress it?
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Originally posted by Beautiful951:
How do I get rid of hatred, anger, how do I do it? Should I just ignore it like supress it?
ill will, envy, jealousy, sloth and torpor as well. first note you are aware if the feelings. when u r angry, ask urself this questions first. who are u angry with? r u angry with the person who offended you, his head, hair, face, body, legs etc. try meditation using metta loving kindness. radiate your loving kindness to those who doesnt like u as well.
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Originally posted by Rooney9:
ill will, envy, jealousy, sloth and torpor as well. first note you are aware if the feelings. when u r angry, ask urself this questions first. who are u angry with? r u angry with the person who offended you, his head, hair, face, body, legs etc. try meditation using metta loving kindness. radiate your loving kindness to those who doesnt like u as well.
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Originally posted by An Eternal Now:
There are different form of bliss. Some short/transient, not-so-intense pleasurable sensations can arise, but those are not considered jhana. Rapture can pervade your entire body very intensely... a very intense kind of pleasure beyond anything you have experienced in ordinary life (better than sex, as some teachers put it). It is rapture born not from indulging in sensual pleasures, but pleasure born from absorption. When you reach that it is first jhana - to even reach this level you need to attain certain level of concentration to the point of absorption. As you get into higher levels the joy becomes ever more subtle and turns to equanimity, etc.
The bliss of Nirvana however is very different. It is the bliss of clarity to put it in Thusness's words.
As for supernatural powers: you need to gain mastery of 4th Jhana, and then with directed thought and resolution you can manifest the powers (listen to http://personallifemedia.com/podcasts/236-buddhist-geeks/episodes/3665-buddhist-magic-what-possible). However, don't practice with the goal of attaining supernatural powers. Not even jhanic bliss should be your ultimate aim (jhanas are still samsaric, conditional states) - just treat them as a sweetener in your practice, as Thusness told me.
Your goal of practice should be nothing short of enlightenment and liberation.
Actually i am curious about Hell is all about.... although we all know liberation is our goal.
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There are many many levels of hell. If you do not keep your 5 precepts, and create many bad karmas, you will go there after death.
Cold Narakas
Naked and climbing thorn-covered trees, these figures are pecked by birds from above and attacked by demons with spears below. Icy mountains are in the background.
- Arbuda – the "blister" Naraka. This is a dark, frozen plain surrounded by icy mountains and continually swept by blizzards. Inhabitants of this world arise fully grown and abide life-long naked and alone, while the cold raises blisters upon their bodies. The length of life in this Naraka is said to be the time it would take to empty a barrel of sesame seed if one only took out a single seed every hundred years.
- Nirarbuda – the "burst blister" Naraka. This Naraka is even colder than the one above, and here the blisters burst open, leaving the beings' bodies covered with frozen blood and pus.
- Aá¹aá¹a – the Naraka of shivering. Here the beings shiver in the cold, making an aá¹-aá¹-aá¹ sound with their mouths.
- Hahava – the Naraka of lamentation. Here the beings lament in the cold, going ha, ho in pain.
- Huhuva – the Naraka of chattering teeth. Here the beings shiver as their teeth chatter, making the sound hu, hu.
- Utpala – the "blue lotus" Naraka. Here the intense cold makes the skin turn blue like the color of an utpala waterlily.
- Padma – the "lotus" Naraka. In this Naraka the blizzard cracks open the frozen skin leaving one raw and bloody.
- MahÄ�padma – the "great lotus" Naraka. Here the whole body cracks into pieces and the internal organs are exposed to the cold and they also crack.
Each lifetime in these Narakas is twenty times the length of the one before it.
[edit] Hot Narakas
Human-animal figures are cut and disemboweled by demons and birds, while Buddha looks on from above.- SañjÄ«va – the "reviving" Naraka. In this Naraka the ground is made out of hot iron heated by an immense fire. Beings in this Naraka appear fully grown, already in a state of fear and misery. As soon as the being begins to fear being harmed by others, their fellows appear and attack each other with iron claws. Or else, the attendants of Yama appear and attack the being with many fiery weapons. As soon as the being experiences an unconsciousness like death, they are suddenly restored to full health and the attacks begin again. Other tortures experienced in this Naraka include having molten metal dropped upon them, being sliced into pieces, and suffering from the heat of the iron ground. Life in this Naraka is 1.62*1012[citation needed] years long. It is said to be 1000 yojanas beneath JambudvÄ«pa and 10,000 yojanas in each direction.
- KÄ�lasÅ«tra – the "black thread" Naraka. Here, in addition to the torments mentioned above, black lines are drawn upon the body, and Yama's servants cut the beings upon the lines with fiery saws and sharp axes. Life in this Naraka is 1.296*1013 years long.
- SaṃghÄ�ta – the "crushing" Naraka. This Naraka is also upon a ground of hot iron, but is surrounded by huge masses of rock that smash together and crush the beings to a bloody jelly. When the rocks move apart again, life is restored to the being and the process starts again. Life in this Naraka is 1.0368*1014 years long.
- Raurava – the "screaming" Naraka. Here beings run wildly about, looking for refuge from the burning ground. When they find an apparent shelter, they are locked inside it as it blazes around them, while they scream inside. Life in this Naraka is 8.2944*1014 years long.
- MahÄ�raurava – the "piercing" Naraka. Punishment in here are for people who maintain their own body by hurting others. In this hell, ruru animals known as kravyÄ�da torment them and eat their flesh. Life in this Naraka is 6.63552*1015 years long.
- Tapana – the "heating" Naraka. Here Yama's servants impale the beings on a fiery spear until flames issue from their noses and mouths. Life in this Naraka is 5.308416*1016 years long.
- PratÄ�pana – the "great heating" Naraka. The tortures here are similar to the Tapana Naraka, but the beings are pierced more bloodily with a trident. Life in this Naraka is 4.2467328*1017 years long. It is also said to last for the length of half an antarakalpa.
- AvÄ«ci – the "uninterrupted" Naraka. Beings are roasted in an immense blazing oven with terrible suffering. Life in this Naraka is 3.39738624*1018 years long. It is also said to last for the length of an antarakalpa.
These Narakas by no means exhaust the tale of possible sufferings. Some sources describe five hundred or even hundreds of thousands of different Narakas. In Chinese Buddhist texts, the numbers and types of Narakas were elaborated in a variety of creative ways; see Di Yu for examples of this sort of treatment.
The sufferings of the dwellers in Naraka often resemble those of the Pretas, and the two types of being are easily confused. The simplest distinction is that beings in Naraka are confined to their subterranean world, while the Pretas are free to move about.
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Scary... yet very curious to see.. nevermind.. if meditation really can bring me there... just jk
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"Supernatural abilities" is one of the reasons why I will meditate everyday, as frequent as I can and for as long as I can. I have became a meditation addict
Omniscience and the Cultivation of Supernormal Powers
To others it is called "supernatural abilities", to me it is "natural abilites" and I must get my natural abilities back as soon as possible, else I will not be able to find the answers I seek in this lifetime.
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What are the five precepts again?
By the way, in a website I read that if at the time of death, your mindset is good you can be reborn at a better place is that true?
http://www.aimwell.org/Books/Pesala/Rebirth/rebirth.html
This is the link.
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Originally posted by Beautiful951:
How do I get rid of hatred, anger, how do I do it? Should I just ignore it like supress it?
Buddha taught the three principle/pillars:- precepts/discipline, deep concentration and wisdom.Concentration comes from holding precepts. With concentration, one can bring forth wisdom.
This three principle of precepts/discipline, concentration/stillness and wisdom help sever the three posions of greed, hatred and folly RESPECTIVELY.
hence concentration or stillness or to be able to control oneself sever hatred and anger. and to have stillness, u need discipline oneself.
the five MORAL precepts/discipline are not to kill, steal, sexual misconduct, lying and intoxication. More detail:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Precepts
one can also practice disciplining one's mind as in Meditation. :)
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Originally posted by SoulDivine:
"Supernatural abilities" is one of the reasons why I will meditate everyday, as frequent as I can and for as long as I can. I have became a meditation addict
Omniscience and the Cultivation of Supernormal Powers
To others it is called "supernatural abilities", to me it is "natural abilites" and I must get my natural abilities back as soon as possible, else I will not be able to find the answers I seek in this lifetime.
I strongly encourage everyone to practice meditation everyday, its urgent!Not just meditate, but also being open to the answers that people get when they meditate. :)
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Originally posted by sinweiy:
八難 The eight conditions in which it is difficult to see a Buddha or hear his dharma: in the hells: as hungry ghosts; as animals; in Uttarakuru (the northern continent where all is pleasant); in the long-life heavens (where life is long and easy); as deaf, blind, and dumb; as a worldly philosopher; in the intermediate period between a Buddha and his successor. Also 八無暇.
just clarifying my post....MCK said, only the 4 formless realms do not have Buddhas/bodhisattvas go and visit. the other heavens still have many.
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Originally posted by SoulDivine:
"Supernatural abilities" is one of the reasons why I will meditate everyday, as frequent as I can and for as long as I can. I have became a meditation addict
Omniscience and the Cultivation of Supernormal Powers
To others it is called "supernatural abilities", to me it is "natural abilites" and I must get my natural abilities back as soon as possible, else I will not be able to find the answers I seek in this lifetime.
I strongly encourage everyone to practice meditation everyday, its urgent!Hi SoulDivine,
Recommend you a book to read... it's available as a free ebook online.. it's the story of a Female Arhant named Mae Chee Kaew.
http://www.forestdhammabooks.com/
Mae Chee Kaew - Her Journey to Spiritual Awakening & enlightenment
I think it may give you some pointers on your spiritual path.
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I have browse through several pages. To be frank with everyone, currently, I am not whole-heartedly seeking enlightenment. I am a free-thinker in this lifetime and I do not agree 100% with buddhists' teachings. For example, some people believes that the physical body+emotions+thoughts are defilements that should be identified and discarded. From enlightened beings sense, it may be true as anything there is not pure is an obstacle to enlightenment. But from my point of view, everyone is both enlightened and on the path to enlightenment, is just a matter how you look at it and what is the purpose of the being being incarnated into this world at this period of time. If you think you are incarnated into this world and your only purpose is to gain enlightenment, then seriously, you are at the wrong place. You should be at Buddha Pureland or become a monk/nun right now. There must be some other reasons why you here at this place, at this time other than 100% directly seeking enlightenment. Why I encourage everyone to practice meditation is because this period of time is very crucial and critical for Earth's Ascension. Just imagine everyday, there are billions of people producing rubbish and more rubbish and there is less then 10% of the people trying very very hard to clean up the mess... If everyone of us join hands and start cleaning up the mess, it will be way much easier and better for all of us.
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Originally posted by An Eternal Now:
You can visit the realms through meditation, but enlightenment is a more important goal.
If I constantly meditate om mani peme hom or namo amitafo (sorry for the wrong spelling), were I be able to visit the realms? -
Originally posted by SoulDivine:
But from my point of view, everyone is both enlightened and on the path to enlightenment, is just a matter how you look at it and what is the purpose of the being being incarnated into this world at this period of time.
If you think you are incarnated into this world and your only purpose is to gain enlightenment, then seriously, you are at the wrong place. You should be at Buddha Pureland or become a monk/nun right now. There must be some other reasons why you here at this place, at this time other than 100% directly seeking enlightenment.
Why I encourage everyone to practice meditation is because this period of time is very crucial and critical for Earth’s Ascension. Just imagine everyday, there are billions of people producing rubbish and more rubbish and there is less then 10% of the people trying very very hard to clean up the mess… If everyone of us join hands and start cleaning up the mess, it will be way much easier and better for all of us.
I used to think I have a purpose, my cousin who work as a healer gave me some books on purposes too. So I search and search. After a few years, I found out that these purposes that I feel I should follow in my mind - are but false and impermanent. It could very well been my habitual tendency of thinking towards this directions carried over from many past lives that cause me to be fall back to this state. If I don't achieve this purpose and I die then everything I tried to do in this life would become a dream. Then in my next life I try again? And again... and again... It's tiresome and burdensome. Besides who can gaurantee I will still be human next life? It's not good to take this kind of risk...
What we did in the past conditions what we are / have now, but what is going to happen in the future is determined by what we do now. So whatever false thoughts we have for our purposes can be changed to the thought for enlightenment. If we turn it around and choose another purpose, we will walk down a completely different path.
It is not easy to be born in Buddha's Pureland. Say the western pureland of Amitabha Buddha - it says in the sutra that one cannot be born in the Pureland with å°‘å–„æ ¹ï¼Œç¦�德， å› ç¼˜. In fact to be able to encounter the teaching on Pureland or even Buddhism is not easy. Even if you encounter, you may not believe. Even if you believe, you may not practice. Also to be a monk or nun require good merits, if you don't have sufficient merits, you can't have the conditions to be one. In samsara, we cannot control a lot of things, we want to do this we can't, we want to be a monk/nun, we may not be able to take the hardship or not have enough causes and conditions. The only "things" that are within our control is our own thoughts, so it's important to choose the right purpose of enlightenment.
Yes, too much rubbish, this is the reason why we have to get enlightened or into the Pureland, to stop producing these rubbish. If we don't get enlightened or into the Pureland, after we get out of meditation if we don't continue practicing, we will start producing rubbish again. -
Why u all still want to build castle in the air. After death no one know. So my answer is just live to your fullest.
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Originally posted by SoulDivine:
I have browse through several pages.
To be frank with everyone, currently, I am not whole-heartedly seeking enlightenment. I am a free-thinker in this lifetime and I do not agree 100% with buddhists’ teachings.
For example, some people believes that the physical body+emotions+thoughts are defilements that should be identified and discarded. From enlightened beings sense, it may be true as anything there is not pure is an obstacle to enlightenment.
But from my point of view, everyone is both enlightened and on the path to enlightenment, is just a matter how you look at it and what is the purpose of the being being incarnated into this world at this period of time.
If you think you are incarnated into this world and your only purpose is to gain enlightenment, then seriously, you are at the wrong place. You should be at Buddha Pureland or become a monk/nun right now. There must be some other reasons why you here at this place, at this time other than 100% directly seeking enlightenment.
Why I encourage everyone to practice meditation is because this period of time is very crucial and critical for Earth’s Ascension. Just imagine everyday, there are billions of people producing rubbish and more rubbish and there is less then 10% of the people trying very very hard to clean up the mess… If everyone of us join hands and start cleaning up the mess, it will be way much easier and better for all of us.
Hi SoulDivine,
Just an opinion.
Yes, very few are really interested in enlightenment. For those that are not interested, there is no point in pushing.... Most of these people are still feeling the need to experiment and explore different kinds of experiences, feelings and emotions. Just like as one is young, everything is fresh and new... but when one is older the fresh and new is not seem in the same light anymore.
However, many who are interested are also accutely clear about the state of recurring difficulties in the re-carnation cycle.
For me, the resolve in getting out of the situation happened in one past life when i see incredible amount of pain and suffering... not of myself but others. At that life time, i don't even have a concept of Enlightenment. ... but the intention and resolve is strong enough to propel one forward in that direction in future life.
I think you are trying to convey that the purpose of life at this time has to do with the Planet's ascension. Fact is, by following an enlightenment path, one is benefiting that 'purpose' too.
Also when you gain insights/realisation, you will also understand how supernatural powers are possible... but that does not mean that one will have it... as it may not being developed in that area and also due to conditions. Supernatural power such as remote viewing, bi-location and all those stuffs are possible because the universe is 'empty'. It is 'holographic, timeless, interconnected, etc'. The condition of physicality generate additional patterns and conditions that prevents the supernatural powers... that is all.
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Originally posted by SoulDivine:
I have browse through several pages.
To be frank with everyone, currently, I am not whole-heartedly seeking enlightenment. I am a free-thinker in this lifetime and I do not agree 100% with buddhists’ teachings.
For example, some people believes that the physical body+emotions+thoughts are defilements that should be identified and discarded. From enlightened beings sense, it may be true as anything there is not pure is an obstacle to enlightenment.
But from my point of view, everyone is both enlightened and on the path to enlightenment, is just a matter how you look at it and what is the purpose of the being being incarnated into this world at this period of time.
If you think you are incarnated into this world and your only purpose is to gain enlightenment, then seriously, you are at the wrong place. You should be at Buddha Pureland or become a monk/nun right now. There must be some other reasons why you here at this place, at this time other than 100% directly seeking enlightenment.
Why I encourage everyone to practice meditation is because this period of time is very crucial and critical for Earth’s Ascension. Just imagine everyday, there are billions of people producing rubbish and more rubbish and there is less then 10% of the people trying very very hard to clean up the mess… If everyone of us join hands and start cleaning up the mess, it will be way much easier and better for all of us.
Not everyone is meant to walk the same path in Life. To follow the path of another person, in the hope of having an easier journey in the Universe (often over-simplified as afterlife or rebirth), is not necessarily for our highest good, as everyone's lifeplan is unique.Just a personal advice to all who are open:
Come back on 2 Oct 2011. Assess our life very honestly and without any form of prejudices and attachments then. If we're still totally at peace within ourselves, and still having a fulfilling life, with no fear whatsoever, then all should be fine. Else, it would be prudent to ponder by that time, if we're truly walking the most appropriate path for ourselves. :)
Rainbow Jigsaw of Life
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Originally posted by likeyou:
If I constantly meditate om mani peme hom or namo amitafo (sorry for the wrong spelling), were I be able to visit the realms?If you enter very deeply into samadhi (absorption) through the chanting, then yes.
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Originally posted by SoulDivine:
But from my point of view, everyone is both enlightened and on the path to enlightenment, is just a matter how you look at it and what is the purpose of the being being incarnated into this world at this period of time.
If you think you are incarnated into this world and your only purpose is to gain enlightenment, then seriously, you are at the wrong place. You should be at Buddha Pureland or become a monk/nun right now. There must be some other reasons why you here at this place, at this time other than 100% directly seeking enlightenment.
Why I encourage everyone to practice meditation is because this period of time is very crucial and critical for Earth’s Ascension. Just imagine everyday, there are billions of people producing rubbish and more rubbish and there is less then 10% of the people trying very very hard to clean up the mess… If everyone of us join hands and start cleaning up the mess, it will be way much easier and better for all of us.
Purposes of life is like the details in a painting. Gaining enlightenment collapses the whole picture, including its frame... I don't deny that one may have certain life purposes etc. actually the other terminology for it is karmic debt contracts.
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I would like to ask a question about ghosts and spirits. In buddhism, do people believe that we can see them?
I ask this because of the different perceptions of different religions, and I hear that in buddhism, some say we can and some say we cannot or perhaps this is because in singapore buddhism and taoism are kind of close, or it seems like that to me.
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Originally posted by SoulDivine:
I have browse through several pages.
To be frank with everyone, currently, I am not whole-heartedly seeking enlightenment. I am a free-thinker in this lifetime and I do not agree 100% with buddhists’ teachings.
For example, some people believes that the physical body+emotions+thoughts are defilements that should be identified and discarded. From enlightened beings sense, it may be true as anything there is not pure is an obstacle to enlightenment.
But from my point of view, everyone is both enlightened and on the path to enlightenment, is just a matter how you look at it and what is the purpose of the being being incarnated into this world at this period of time.
If you think you are incarnated into this world and your only purpose is to gain enlightenment, then seriously, you are at the wrong place. You should be at Buddha Pureland or become a monk/nun right now. There must be some other reasons why you here at this place, at this time other than 100% directly seeking enlightenment.
Why I encourage everyone to practice meditation is because this period of time is very crucial and critical for Earth’s Ascension. Just imagine everyday, there are billions of people producing rubbish and more rubbish and there is less then 10% of the people trying very very hard to clean up the mess… If everyone of us join hands and start cleaning up the mess, it will be way much easier and better for all of us.
The most important reasons for practising Buddhism is the realisation of suffering within the samsaric existence. The reason Buddhism is suitable for most humans is the absence of overwhelming distraction of suffering and pleasure. Ideally, a balance of awareness of suffering and the pleasure of leisureliness to contemplate.
Buddhism is based on focused concentration and awareness, that I believe you are aware of.
On your take of physical body, emotions and thoughts as defilements, is that when identified and lumped together, "I"or "Me "arises, and is the cause of suffering due to the duality of "I" and others.
If one were a Varjayana practitioner, one would not shun away from the body, emotions and thoughts, but a vessel for practising awareness and arousing compassion. It all depends on the skillful means of practice.
All mind is originally pure, of Buddha nature, hence the term ordinary mind , primordial etc. Due the formation of I, constant craving, attachment, delusional view sets in.
With the delusional mind, we do not have mental stillness, acting and reacting to our inner and external detractors.Why do you advocate meditation, when things are "satisfactory" as it is? Of cause it is not, that why you are doing something(meditation) about it!
Another thing is the difference between the concept of rebirth and reincarnation. When the "I' was strong in me(relative), it is easy to believe in the immortal "I", and look for the reason for my existence. However, we live and we die irregardless of our beliefs.
I do not know or understand what earth ascension means, but it's ok . Although the mess we are in might not get worse to the point of intolerance within my life, what is important is we have compassion and awareness of suffering our individual and collective action it causes.
Gaining enlightenment is an aspiration, some are actively seeking it within this life time, some are not. But again, there is no time like NOW is'nt it. We plant the aspiration like a indestructible seed, hoping it will germinate and flower later now. Some sprout immediately, some, later. But if we do not even plant a seed...
We are here because we exist as an individual "I" and we cling, claw and slash and feed in order to exist, this is life is'nt it? Look around, sentients are struggling for their existence and a piece of dirt. Whether we look for a higher purpose or not, it is fundamentally us.. Do the right things, we thrive and go one up(upper realms), do the wrong things life can be hell.
One either learns to be content and accept the suffering of samsara, or one can yoke one's dissatisfaction, and bring the ceaseless samsaric existence to an end!
One thing about being born into Pureland, is also about being born as a Bodhisattva, is that eventually, the aspiration of a Bodhisattva will ripen.
