How to get to the afterlife

**Woog** · 06-03-2004, 11:38 AM

If there is an afterlife it would good to know how to get there.
I find it hard to believe that belonging to a religion is the trick,
it has to be a more natural process. To what extent do we need
to prepare ourselves? Or is there notheing we can do?

**sassure** · 06-03-2004, 04:13 PM

An afterlife for everybody? If you consider being topsoil in the South Forty a type of afterlife, then I guess so. Or if you consider being recycled into another living being a type of afterlife, then I guess so.

The true afterlife requires Transcendence, Enlightenment, Nirvana; sadly, very few will attain that. Just look at today's headlines. DH Lawrence said that humans are savages, flies, and don't deserve anything at all from God except the privilege of becoming fertilizer.....

Organized religions offer a way, but few follow The Way with any sincerity. Isaiah was right...Jeremiah was right. The Book of Ecclesiastes said it all.....and in 2004 we are still the same vainglorious, aggressive savages. Something had better change, and soon.....

**the dauer** · 06-03-2004, 06:10 PM

I think it's best to devote our lives to making the world a better place and not worry about what happens after death, just trust that whatever happens will happen in its own time.

**Sebbi** · 06-04-2004, 12:35 AM

I believe in Nirvana, but I believe that every being will eventually get there, we can take as much time as we need (rebecoming). Spiritual practice is merely a booster to get there.

Blessings

Sebbi

**sassure** · 06-04-2004, 05:59 PM

Quite right, Sebbi. What we see as short-term failure may be little more than a blip on the long-term radar. And even if the evolution of the human race stagnates, individuals will continue to evolve spiritually, sparks of light in a great wash of darkness......

**Sage-Phoenix** · 06-04-2004, 11:33 PM

My initial thought was 'errr you die.'

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Originally Posted by the dauer

I think it's best to devote our lives to making the world a better place and not worry about what happens after death, just trust that whatever happens will happen in its own time.

That's what I was thinking.

I came across a Zen koan/story which basically says; A zen master was asked what happens after death and he replied 'I don't know, I'm not dead yet.'

I like that philosophy.

TTFN
Sage

**Samhain** · 06-05-2004, 07:48 PM

I find it difficult to vote on the poll cause I would say after life is all those things yet none of them.

S

**sky_pink** · 06-06-2004, 10:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Woog

If there is an afterlife it would good to know how to get there.

What if it's an unpleasant afterlife?

**Dizzy Man** · 06-07-2004, 12:53 AM

I see loads of evidence to believe in God.

I see no evidence to believe in an afterlife.

**Woog** · 06-07-2004, 07:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Sebbi

I believe in Nirvana, but I believe that every being will eventually get there, we can take as much time as we need (rebecoming). Spiritual practice is merely a booster to get there.

Blessings

Sebbi

Rebecoming is cool. Do you think there is a lucid period between rebecomings?
A time when we know the score. Then, if this is any example, followed by a
blind plunge into something else.
Bottom line, the you that each of us knows now will never be again. So it
makes ultimate sense to live for today. We are all very lucky to have this
opporitunity. We should live it as well as we can.