2007-12-10 14:39:04 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
This varies, but in general many Buddhists believe in reincarnation that is governed by the karma you accumulate during your life. Your eternal soul continues to be reincarnated until you reach enlightenment, at which time you are released from your cycle of suffering.
However, many western Buddhists do not accept reincarnation, but instead see karma as metaphoric in the way that we effect our own mental states toward helpful or harmful paths.
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2007-12-10 14:44:01 · answer #1 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
According to Buddhism, when you die, you go to the bardo, or waiting room of the afterlife. After a while you are reborn in another body, depending on the Karma you have generated in your previous lives. If you have been really bad, you go to a hell realm, for instance, and if you've been very good and helped others, you go to a better afterlife.
You can't get rid of Karma. You just have to endure it until you have used it up.
2007-12-10 14:44:28 · answer #2 · answered by Goonhilda 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You reincarnate into something good or bad, depending on how you acted during this life.
(This is as far as I know from reading 3 books on Buddhism)
2007-12-10 14:43:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
AS FAR AS I KNOW., NIRVANA-A STATE OF BLISS IS THE BUDDHIST IDEA OF AFTER-LIFE, ALTHOUGH NOT ESSENTIALLY THE OPINION OF BUDDHA.
2007-12-10 14:46:57 · answer #4 · answered by terryhoare 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i believe that nothing happens.
you die you die.
if we did reincarnate, then i must have been bad in my previous life.
2007-12-10 14:46:44 · answer #5 · answered by ... 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
:-)
you might be born as a monkey, that the missing link of evolution.
peace
2007-12-10 14:44:16 · answer #6 · answered by Jilan A 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋