tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965076219235086304.post2031964355662897345..comments2024-02-24T00:41:37.836-08:00Comments on The Buddha Diaries: HellPeter Clothierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11525159413387378704noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965076219235086304.post-16422013743512512182007-10-16T20:03:00.000-07:002007-10-16T20:03:00.000-07:00I don't believe in a final destination, only in a ...I don't believe in a final destination, only in a continuous state of flux.<BR/><BR/>To have only one chance to get it right would doom all of us to the fires of Hell, if such existed. <BR/><BR/>In an orderly universe such as we likely inhabit, we return, over and over, slowly perfecting ourselves as we experience all there is over countless lifetimes.<BR/><BR/>That's my story and I'm sticking to it.heartinsanfranciscohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07535397382991383931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965076219235086304.post-18453812912354980092007-10-16T12:13:00.000-07:002007-10-16T12:13:00.000-07:00David's entry fits No Exit. I saw an excellent pro...David's entry fits No Exit. I saw an excellent production of No Exit about six months ago. It's the blackest existential idea of people making each other's lives utterly miserable. People deal with that according to their uncontrollable needs and desires.<BR/><BR/>Gee, I wonder if people who like being alone much of the time, are the least existential of all?<BR/><BR/>There are no good nor bad destinations. What matters is good or bad life. Heaven and hell are merely for rules of behavior.<BR/><BR/>When all is said and done, people just die. They don't go where a church or dogma says they do. I've watched good and bad people die, and they all pass in the same way, a way that seems to reveal that they go to the same place, back into the unknown entity of oneness and everythingness, just as water evaporates invisibly into air, where heaven and hell no longer matter. <BR/><BR/>And since a man's spirit is his connection to all this, it is of no concern what the unknown holds. Each man, good or bad, whether resigned or fearful, will, once his last breath lapses, greet the unknown in the same way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965076219235086304.post-62184706761482145312007-10-16T10:48:00.000-07:002007-10-16T10:48:00.000-07:00I remember a old Twilight Zone episode where this ...I remember a old Twilight Zone episode where this guy dies and goes to hell, which for him is having to sit for eternity in the livingroom of an elderly couple watching slides of their vacation in Hawaii. They were in heaven.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965076219235086304.post-29875871630940180802007-10-16T10:28:00.000-07:002007-10-16T10:28:00.000-07:00A difference between Christian Buddhist concepts o...A difference between Christian Buddhist concepts of hell is duration. Christian hell is eternal, Buddhist hell (at least one's existence in it) is limited.<BR/><BR/>Buddhist cosmology aside, I agree that hell is man-made for other people. More to the point: Hell is where people <I>we don't like</I> must go. How uncomfortable it would be to sit at the Banquet Beyond with all those irritable and loathsome folks who litter our lives.<BR/><BR/>What this means, of course, is we're all brimstone bound.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965076219235086304.post-81909490728031620002007-10-16T09:30:00.000-07:002007-10-16T09:30:00.000-07:00I believe they are states of mind... both heaven a...I believe they are states of mind... both heaven and hell. We can be living them in chunks or even simultaneously at times. <BR/><BR/>The standard concept of hell such as the ones depicted on that History Channel show are really just methods of social control. I have a hard time believing there is a physical place of either torment or eternal bliss. <BR/><BR/><BR/>Peace, <BR/><BR/>~Chanithailandchanihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10171731740204067889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965076219235086304.post-38303985758450867412007-10-16T09:25:00.000-07:002007-10-16T09:25:00.000-07:00No heaven, no hell in my future. Well, really, no ...No heaven, no hell in my future. Well, really, no future either.robin andreahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13390482190562312928noreply@blogger.com