What will happen when I die?

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[ Jun 30th, 2008 ] - [ read : 18272 ]
 
What will happen when I die?
 
 
Answer:
by: Venerable Nicolas Thanissaro
 
 
When people die, Buddhists believe it is not the end of the story. What lives on of a person when their body dies is their 'mind'. As long as this mind is not free of greed, hatred and delusion, it must go to a new existence. It will go to a more fortunate existence if the mind is in a good mental state, and a worse one if it is in a bad mental state. Thus there are as many as 31 afterlife realms where a 'mind' can be reborn after death. The rebirth will go on - one lifetime after another endlessly until that person can manage to uproot all the greed, hatred and delusion in their mind and can thereafter enter permanently upon Nirvana.
 
 

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