[无量香光 · 显密文库 · 手机站]
fowap.goodweb.net.cn
{返回首页}


Is one always reborn as a human being?
 
{返回 Good Questions, Good Answers on Buddhism 文集}
{返回网页版}
点击:1885

Is one always reborn as a human being?
 
No, there are several realms in which one can be reborn. Some people are reborn in heaven, some are reborn in hell, some are reborn as hungry ghosts and so on. Heaven is not a place but a state of existence where one has a subtle body and where the mind experiences mainly pleasure. Some religions strive very hard to be reborn in a heavenly existence mistakenly believing it to be a permanent state. But it is not. Like all conditioned states, heaven is impermanent and when one’s life span there is finished, one could well be reborn again as a human. Hell, likewise, is not a place but a state of existence where one has a subtle body and where the mind experiences mainly anxiety and distress. Being a hungry ghost, again, is a state of existence where the body is subtle and where the mind is continually plagued by longing and dissatisfaction.

So heavenly beings experience mainly pleasure, hell beings and ghosts experience mainly pain and human beings experience usually a mixture of both. So the main difference between the human realm and other realms is the body type and the quality of experience.


{返回 Good Questions, Good Answers on Buddhism 文集}
{返回网页版}
{返回首页}

上一篇:What decides where we will be reborn?
下一篇:How does the mind go from one body to another?
 What about Loving Kindness Meditati..
 How many types of meditation are th..
 Ive been told that you should never..
 So how can I stop him?
 But so many people believe in some ..
 But surely it is good to kill somet..
 What is the First Noble Truth?
 I suppose you think your religion i..
 You Buddhists are too concerned abo..
 You have talked a lot about rebirth..
全文 标题
 
【佛教文章随机阅读】
 无著~绝句[栏目:禅诗三百首]


{返回首页}

△TOP

- 手机版 -
[无量香光·显密文库·佛教文集]
教育、非赢利、公益性的佛教文化传播
白玛若拙佛教文化传播工作室制作
www.goodweb.net.cn Copyrights reserved
(2003-2015) 51La
站长信箱:yjp990@163.com