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If you believe in reincarnation, do you suppose at some point everyone gets to experience the very best life imaginable? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Edit: Goddamnit will one of you please comprehend my question and give a relevant response.

I didn't ask whether or not you think souls are real or what you think about Buddha

This is not a creative writing prompt nor a place for you to pontificate your religious ponderings! 🙄

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[–] Paragone@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago

As AwakeSoul/Buddha tried explaining...

and as Hindu Ramana Maharshi also tried explaining...

WHEN one reaches such fundamental-awareness that there is NO self in it...

it is AWARENESS,

THEN, one only has to dissolve into that OceanOfAllAwakeSouls/OceanOfAWARENESS/OceanOfBuddhas/God.

No self, indestructible bliss, Eternal awareness, watching all unfolding endless-stream-of-Universes, as magical display...

No, not every Souls/CellsOfGod/Continuums get to experience amazingness incarnate.

Elisabeth Haich commented on that, in her book "Initiation".

Some Souls/Continuums, or their natures/characters, chose aversion-therapy reincarnation-cycle, for whatever reason.

It's a Bell curve, probably:

the normal is to have an average "pinnacle", and an average "bottom-of-the-barrel", and an average set-of-between-range incarnations/someones/lives.

Only the more-extreme would inhabit the more-extreme ends of the bell curve.

Same as all Nature...

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[–] mdhughes@lemmy.ml -1 points 10 months ago

Well, I don't believe in reincarnation, so NO.

But suppose that I did. What does that mean? Do you retain your memories and respawn like a videogame character? Get to be a baby who knows everything as an adult? That's a weird life, and probably not "best".

If you don't retain your memories, then what is "you"? Some kind of … virus? Whatever, hopping between bodies, unable to do anything to affect their outcome. So now it's down to random chance.

What's the "very best life imaginable"? Imaginable, not real? The real life you spawn into isn't going to meet that standard, so never.

Like most religious ideas, it doesn't define any of its terms, and they don't make sense when you do.

[–] answersplease77@lemmy.world -3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No obviously if the pleasures of earthly life was as good as that of the afterlife, that would defeat the purpose of afterlife. Every emotion and second you experince in the afterlife is emplified thousands of times worth of how it is now. Like I said otherwise, it will not be worth it to even be fair or good to anyone in life. So I'd rather steal from and hurt everyone for my pleasure now since the best possible senario in an afterlife is that I'd be rewarded with the same pleasure I restrained and deprived myself from now.

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