Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Death and Afterlife
Buddha accepted the basic Hindu ideas of reincarnation and karma, as well as that the ultimate goal of the religion is to escape the cycle of death and rebirth. Buddha asserted that what keeps us bound to the death and rebirth process is desire, desire in the sense of wanting or craving anything in the world. The goal of not repeating the process of reincarnation involves freeing oneself from desire. For example, Nirvana, one of the Buddhist temples literally means extinction, and it refers to the extinction of all craving. Karma basically doing what is wrong verbally or physically and paying the high price in the end.
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