foreveryoung
Member
- Jan 2, 2020
- 63
I have heavily studied religion, Christianity, Buddhism, Science i have also been an atheist through my teenage years (I became religious after the hardship i faced but it lead me to believe religion is the answer to facing our death and the truth of this universe). I also heavily recommend Joseph Campbell's work, and E. Alexanders accounts of the after life. I've also been a computer scientist, a programmer, none of which has brought any truth or satisfaction this universe.
Mostly now I practice buddhism because its the closest one can go trough getting in touch with what is the "truth". However, the truth can also be found within Christianity, and all other religions, which includes Modern Science, its really all up to you, and how you see this world. My conclusion to dealing with death and the after life is that it is, no matter what religion/science you believe, it will be a far greater task for the average human to deal with. It is only when we die and separate completely from our human selves that we can truly know or understand it, everything else is just going to be guess work.
I'd like to share a verse from the Buddhist Bible the dammpahda:
Verse 93. Arahat's State Cannot Be Traced
For whom pollutions are destroyed,
not attached to any food,
he has as range the nameless and
the void of perfect freedom too.
As birds that wing through space,
hard to trace his going.
Explanation: If one is totally free of influences, internal or external, that motivates human behaviour, and is not attached even to food, that kind of individual focuses his mind on emptiness, objectlessness and freedom of thought. The path of such saints is difficult to be traced, like the path of birds flying through the sky.
I trurly believe, despite all other methods of CTB available this is the one and only method: To rid yourself of all attachments completely. Only then is when you'll find a way to free yourself.
My true reason for coming here, signing up to this forum and posting here is to spread the word from the light, from what i have learned from true buddhism (the original pali translations). From my awakening i have received from practicing true buddhism , i tried to help others here to lead a better life or an after life. But now i think staying here (in these forums) any longer is becoming an attachment, and leading myself to having dark and clinging thoughts. I think I've accomplished my duty here, even though it was mostly insignificant. Its now time to sort my self out. I remain my account's messages to be open so others can read through my posts and contemplate on what i have said which I believe was guided by the light i recieved. When I post I carefully decide what i would say and really mean the thing I said according to the light i recieved. But thats coming to end, because im human after all, and thats why im shutting down this account.
Theres so much more i want to tell, but i have to refrain.
The day i die is coming very soon, but i won't be here to tell you about it, even if i really wanted to, but that itself is an attachment that i have to get rid of if i truly want to face death and go through with it. I believe thats the only way the heavens will accept me. There are so many brave souls here that risked their lives to tell us about what it is like to die, or have others record them to die. Not all of us can be like that, and most of us are going to have to do it alone.
Thank you all for the experiences. These forums and all the members have been my guide to me to understand the current life as well as the after life. Thank you all. Goodbye.
Mostly now I practice buddhism because its the closest one can go trough getting in touch with what is the "truth". However, the truth can also be found within Christianity, and all other religions, which includes Modern Science, its really all up to you, and how you see this world. My conclusion to dealing with death and the after life is that it is, no matter what religion/science you believe, it will be a far greater task for the average human to deal with. It is only when we die and separate completely from our human selves that we can truly know or understand it, everything else is just going to be guess work.
I'd like to share a verse from the Buddhist Bible the dammpahda:
Verse 93. Arahat's State Cannot Be Traced
For whom pollutions are destroyed,
not attached to any food,
he has as range the nameless and
the void of perfect freedom too.
As birds that wing through space,
hard to trace his going.
Explanation: If one is totally free of influences, internal or external, that motivates human behaviour, and is not attached even to food, that kind of individual focuses his mind on emptiness, objectlessness and freedom of thought. The path of such saints is difficult to be traced, like the path of birds flying through the sky.
Treasury of Truth (Dhammapada) Chapter 7, The Saints
www.buddhanet.net
I trurly believe, despite all other methods of CTB available this is the one and only method: To rid yourself of all attachments completely. Only then is when you'll find a way to free yourself.
My true reason for coming here, signing up to this forum and posting here is to spread the word from the light, from what i have learned from true buddhism (the original pali translations). From my awakening i have received from practicing true buddhism , i tried to help others here to lead a better life or an after life. But now i think staying here (in these forums) any longer is becoming an attachment, and leading myself to having dark and clinging thoughts. I think I've accomplished my duty here, even though it was mostly insignificant. Its now time to sort my self out. I remain my account's messages to be open so others can read through my posts and contemplate on what i have said which I believe was guided by the light i recieved. When I post I carefully decide what i would say and really mean the thing I said according to the light i recieved. But thats coming to end, because im human after all, and thats why im shutting down this account.
Theres so much more i want to tell, but i have to refrain.
The day i die is coming very soon, but i won't be here to tell you about it, even if i really wanted to, but that itself is an attachment that i have to get rid of if i truly want to face death and go through with it. I believe thats the only way the heavens will accept me. There are so many brave souls here that risked their lives to tell us about what it is like to die, or have others record them to die. Not all of us can be like that, and most of us are going to have to do it alone.
Thank you all for the experiences. These forums and all the members have been my guide to me to understand the current life as well as the after life. Thank you all. Goodbye.
