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Will the spiritual consciousness perish after death?

Buddhist knowledge 2024-05-19

What happens after a person dies?

【Introduction to the classics] "The Buddha's Sutras in Everywhere", translated by An Shigao, a monk from the Anxia Kingdom of the Later Han Dynasty, was a classic translated by Buddhism in the early days of China. It discusses many matters. Master Huiyi believes that: "There are mixed relationships with people in the law."The genre is similar to the "Forty-Two Chapters of the Buddha's Speech", but each paragraph has no clear connection with each other.

【Original text of the scripture] Buddha said: In the past, a monk said: "What people know when they know and think about everything they know, and what they know when they are determined and know when they are also destroyed. What is the difference?" The monk said: "Everyone has been destroyed. The gods are gone after death, and they are born with their actions, but they are not able to achieve deeds. They see what they have gained inconsistently, and they ascend to heaven for good and evil into the abyss, so they are different.”——"Buddha's Sutra"

【Buddhist scriptures Explanation] In the past, some people used this question to ask monks: After a person's destruction, all of his spiritual consciousness, thoughts, thoughts, etc. have disappeared. After the Buddhist students practice and enter into meditation, their thoughts will also disappear. What is the difference between the two?

Looking at the explanation of the monk below, the other party wants to use this question to explain that everything created in this life will disappear with destruction, and the monk's answer is that the master always talks about the cycle of "consciousness".

Although the thoughts have disappeared after a person dies, from the outside, his spiritual consciousness no longer exists, but in fact his "god" has not been destroyed. According to Mahayana Buddhism, the demise of man is just that the "Alaya consciousness" leaves our current body. The "Alaya consciousness" is also called the karma consciousness, which can hold all the seeds of good and evil, all the good and evil deeds he has done, and all the thoughts and actions are recorded in this consciousness. Human livelihood or demise are also recorded in the Alaya consciousness. After the demise, when encountering popularity, they will be reborn again. If they accumulate virtue before their lifetime, they will be born in the next life. If they commit evil before their lifetime, they will corrupt the hungry ghosts, animals, and even in hell. However, the true nature of these reincarnation is beyond the sight of human eyes.After the practitioner enters meditation, he will develop his wisdom and leave the cycle of reincarnation.

In addition, it should be noted that although Buddhism talks about reincarnation, the spiritual consciousness mentioned in Buddhism is not equal to the "soul immortality" mentioned in the world. You should know that spiritual consciousness is also a kind of illusion and is found by our delusions and attachments.In fact, all phenomena in life are inspired by karma, but they are just a kind of popularity. Life and death are "this exists because of this existence, and that does not exist because of this failure; this life is born, and this death is destroyed, and that death is destroyed." This represents the relationship between life and death.

 

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