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If the Lord Buddha was not reborn what happened to him after death?
If the Lord Buddha was not reborn what happened to him after death?
I read that the Lord Buddha would not be reborn because of Enlightenment so what happened to him after he died?
I read that the Lord Buddha would not be reborn because of Enlightenment so what happened to him after he died?
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Nirvana? He was fully liberated from Samsara and reached Nirvana.
Is Nirvana a place? I thought it was the state of being awakened.
He lost the sense of self, or ego-self and became all that is.
The Buddha became enlightened at the age of 35 and taught for another 45 years.
Nirvana/Enlightement is the complete cessation of mental delusion/suffering .
He didn't go anywhere after he died.
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We shouldn't concern ourselves so much with life after death. Buddhism is about the cessation of suffering. Worry about what you need to do now to achieve that.
This is something I would like to know myself.
If you can assure us - and demonstrate - that your constant thread- creating is doing anything to advance your personal practice, then fine.
If not, it might be better to address more pertinent questions relevant to your practice, instead of just taking up space with questions which have little or no bearing on.... well, anything, really.
Think about what you post, and why.
That would be good advice for anyone, in fact.
Both. Though I don't consider myself as Buddhist I am a big fan of the Dalai Lama. I think I may mix Buddhism with Paganism in the future.
For reference, see SN 22.86 and SN 44.6.
I don't see why not.
It depends on what you mean by "pagan."
However, the Eightfold Path requires Right View and believing in delusions would defy that.
And Shintoism, Taoism, and indigenous isn't the same as paganism.
You might be able to follow paganism with Buddhism thrown in, but you will find it harder to adhere to Buddhism and incorporate Paganism, and shoehorn it in to fit, and suit your needs.
This would be the case with any other religion, in my opinion.
Look, go ahead and try. See it for yourself.
Well Taoism, Shintoism and other religions in Asia that have been mixed with Buddhism are not Buddhism. They could be described as pagan, as they are not monotheistic or Abrahamic.
I read somewhere that the Lord Buddha offered differing teachings to students of differing personalities and that this means that no one religious doctrine could satisfy everyone.
Same doctrine, different words.
he offered different teachings to different people, but phrased and transmitted in ways comprehensible to those people.
I have read that Buddhism and Shintoism have coexisted for over 1500 years in Japan and that many Japanese assert that they "live" as Shintoists, but "die" as Buddhists. I am sure there are many other examples of syncretism in Buddhist countries if you look.
I've told you. Do what you want to do. Find out for yourself what ultimately works and what doesn't. A dozen different people could tell you the same thing, or they could tell you different things. In the end, it's up to you.
I tried to practice Buddhism and Christianity together for around 10 years, until I realised I was just playing into a personally-constructed ideal which was anything but.
Well if you think about it , what you had done probably paved the way for you to become "pure" Buddhist; if there is such a thing.
The thing is that so long as you understand the concepts taught in Buddhism correctly and follow the Noble Eightfold path correctly (exerting effort and meditating), you'll eventually gain wisdom that will displace beliefs. That's not to say it will disprove beliefs, but rather that you won't feel that you "need" them. The part of you that needs to believe in life after death, etc., is the "self", and the goal of Buddhism is to strip away this false self and all of its desires and delusions until the true self is all that is left. That true self, free of craving, is Nirvana.
It is only the self that fears death. The greater your detachment from the self, the less important such questions become. When you realize what the self is, and that it's just an illusion; a construct of the mind, your views on birth and death shift. There really is no birth; no death.
I would suggest due diligence in studying Buddhism and the Noble Eightfold Path and following it for a time and see if you don't work out some of this on your own. That's what Buddhism is about; self-effort.
I see no reason you can't mix Buddhism and paganism, but I would be interested to hear more of Federica's difficulties mixing Christianity and Buddhism.
That sounds like some kind of "cosmic soul" theory. This is certainly not what the Buddha taught.
That's quite a speculative view, I don't see how you can prove it. Anyway, its not important to our own spiritual path at all. Better to just let it go.
Greek rulers as far as the Mediterranean are mentioned as having received Buddhist missionaries.
The Dalai Lama his Holiness regards Jesus as a bodhisattva.
I made no mention of a cosmic soul. What do you think happens when you lose your ego self? The ego self is what makes you identify as a single, separate identity rather than your true nature as everything that exists.
What he understood when he was alive was that there was never a 'he' to be alive or dead in the first place, at least outside of the game that we play with ourselves.
Go ahead and practice Buddhism or whateverism any way you'd like. No matter what it is, you can't practice it wrong. You are incapable of making mistakes
Please make sure you have a credible source for your information, and post us a link to it, before making such ridiculously fatuous remarks.
That goes for every other thread you might choose to open.
I await the link with interest. Tell me when you have it ready, and I will happily re-open this thread.
Thanks to all.......