What is the meaning of death according to Buddhism?

Question

It is said that if we do not understand the meaning of death that we will suffer.

How can i avoid illusions about my death and the loss of loved ones?

Answer 1

Buddhism teaches that when a person dies they are reborn and that this process of death and rebirth will continue until Nirvana is attained.

Most religions believe that the core of the person, the real person, is the soul, a non-material and eternal entity that survives in the afterlife. Buddhism on the other hand says that the person is made up of thoughts, feelings and perceptions interacting with the body in a dynamic and constantly changing way. At death this stream of mental energy is re-established in a new body. Thus Buddhism is able to explain the continuity of the individual without recourse to the belief in an "eternal soul", an idea which contradicts the universal truth of impermanence.

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Answer 2

I don't think, I know your understanding of Christianity is hardly correct. Christianity does account for such a thing as death. In fact, there are different kinds of death, according to the Bible. There is the death we all endure, the Legacy of Adam's sin. This is the one which will remove us from the physical world. For those who become Christians, we actually die and become a new Creature when we are born again. However, we still live in this physical world, subject to the death we inherit from Adam. Those that die as a member of the body of Christ will be apart of the 1st Resurrection. This is the Resurrection of Life. This is the path that "goes to Heaven". Those who are a part of the 2nd Resurrection will be a part of the Resurrection of Death. This is the path to the "Lake of Fire" or "Hell". In regards to your Lazarus reference, keep in mind, you need to read everything in context. Lazarus was resurrected from the dead. In the Jewish teachings (which aren't wrong, they just aren't emphasized in modern Christian teachings) which Jesus of course taught, all the Jews who died technically laid to sleep in the "Bosom of Abraham". Basically, this is the place of waiting for those who were likely to receive good judgement from God. The dead had to wait there until the Messiah came to bring the Kingdom of God on Earth. However, there was a different place for those out of favor from God. The place of weeping and gnashing of teeth. Some mistake this for Hell, but it's not. Until the final judgement comes, this is where the dead wait. According to the Bible, the people can actually see each other from these two places. However, there is a great divide which separates the two.

Answer 3

Hi. I am a Nichiren Buddhist. "Overcoming the suffering of death" is an extremely important theme . There may be some who
believe that life is over with death. But what kind of comfort could they give to a family member or friends or their loved one who is suffering in the face of death ?
Would this belief and view of life and death get any hope?
The Buddhist perspective of life as existing eternally over the three existences of past, present and future not only bring hope to ourselves, it can encourage and give hope to others too. Because we know we are going die someday, we can strive to make the most valuable use of each moment of life. And Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism teaches that actual proof of happiness in this life is itself actual proof of happiness after death and in lives to come.

Answer 4

The human is an agreggate and at death the the varied parts "dissolve' in their own way since all is transitory. Death is not to be feared but to be viewed with serenity.
Death is also not an end but a new path. There is rebirth and in the end of that path Nirvana,the "Extinguishing".

Answer 5

View death as a part of LIFE and live your life to the fullest as death stalks us like a shadow at each and every moment of our lives.

View death as a natural state and that each and every one of us must face, whether we like it or not, as this very life is a process of decaying and degeneration. View this body you dwell in as a temporary shelter and home for your mind.

View life itself as a mere illusion and each and every one of us are going through the same phases, whether you agree or not. It is just a simple truth which we all must wake up to.

"Life is uncertain, death is certain"
(quote from Most Venerable Dr. K Sri Dhammananda Nayake Maha Thero)

Answer 6

The meaning of death is found in rebirth or reincarnation. Buddhism's rejection of any sort of eternalsoul like entity reduces the meaning of death to the end of your life, which in itself is somehwat of an illusion, and the gradual d\freeing of "your" subatomic particles to processes such as the nitrogen cycle. Plants and the like are reborn out of your decay, and animals feed on the plants, etc., so in essence your body is given up in order to reincarnate itself in the form of energy and the like in other living organisms.

Answer 7

Hold on, . . . yay! . . . Death doesn't really have MEANING in buddhism, it's just a fact of life. The MEANING should be what concerns you in your LIFE. As for what happens when you die, the Buddha professed anatman, that men have no individual eternal soul. In a seeming contradiction, there was also reference to the "rebirth" (not reincarnation) upon dying. Look at it this way: I didn't choose to speak English as my native language. I didn't choose to not like chocolate ice cream. In fact, none of the ideas in my head is independent of the environment which I was and am in. Things like love, lust, greed, and the like exist, even if I never know them. They exist within the mindframe of society, like flames. A new consciousness born into the world is like fuel on which these flames ignite. I live my life and die, because of who I am, I've made marks in the world, on this collective consciousness. For example, if I'm a greedy landlord, and I leave all of my tenents impoverished in a state of want, diffused across many people, when I die, the effects of that don't magically dissappear. I left a bunch of people in a state of WANT. My "greed lives on." In short hapiness begets happiness, despair begets despair, and even after your death, the cycle continues.

Answer 8

buddhism is evil from satan false god

Answer 9

rebirth