Cyberia
Chieftain
eh? and what if "goats" were really people. what if goats have a name they have given themseves, like...craxaduck...or something..i dont know i'm ********....
Originally posted by allan
Or a dolphin, which supposedly is the only animal besides humans who have sex strictly for fun!!!![]()
The reincarnation stuff, eh? Hey I am supposedly a Buddhist. Officially at least.Originally posted by Achinz
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Originally posted by S.P.Q.R.
I think I would be a bear...I don't know anyone else who has to work that little just stand at the river and wait until the salmons jump into your mouth . And there are no real threads except humans... really sounds like a perfect life![]()
Originally posted by Knight-Dragon
The reincarnation stuff, eh? Hey I am supposedly a Buddhist. Officially at least.![]()
Anyway, it's when you do bad things in your present life, then you get to be reincarnated as an animal you know. The worse you do, the worse grade of animal type you get to become. On the other end of the scale, if you do good things in this life, you'll reach 'a higher stage of purity' in your next life - and so on till you reach the perfect stage of nirvana i.e. free of all human desires and temptations.
Originally posted by WarandPeace
If i remember correctly, the goal of Buddhism was to, originally, "wake people up" or achieve enlightenment, cession of duhkah, therefore nirvana. And not this going to pray once every sunday to hope for a better future life crap.
Even though they did believe in reincarnation, or the next life, the concept was not put forth to regulate a believer's life by telling them "do this or you'll end up a cow after you die", because the choice of bodies for reincarnation was only the human body. And that you would be stuck there, in the endless cycle of pain and suffering -- which is life, unless taken upon yourself to achieve enlightenment, to be a Buddha; that afterwards rebirth would not occur.