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GRANDPA DREAMED OF HEAVENLY REST. HE GOT DEMONIC HELL AND FORCED REINCARNATION
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[quote:Asuralikeproduction:MV80NTkwMzI3XzgzNzEyODQ1XzRDRTJGMTAw] [quote:CopyNinja87:MV80NTkwMzI3XzgzNzA2NDg3X0I1NDE5OEEz] [quote:Asuralikeproduction:MV80NTkwMzI3XzgzNzA1Mjk1XzU0NkMxQjky] [quote:Anonymous Coward 33600588:MV80NTkwMzI3XzgzNzA0OTAwXzQxMkREQ0Qw] OP, do you have anything to share about what awaits those that break out of the matrix? What does it look like? What do we become when we break out? Orbs of light? Astral bodies? What ever form we decide to project? What do we do for all eternity? Astral travel? Spirit guides? [/quote] Even if you manage to astrally slip out of the external confines of some archonic astral fence that surrounds Earth, you could still remain ignorant and trapped in samsara. According to Dzogchen, when you attain the Light Body, you can send out Emanations to help sentient beings overcome samsara. [/quote] I would look at all religion with high suspicion. What you say may be true, but it certainly doesn’t help our current situation of imprisonment by the demiurge. Following your train of thought, we are supposed to keep coming back to learn different life lessons, which once again paved the way for eternal enslavement. If anything, Buddhists represent only one way of escaping the matrix, and a very inefficient one at that. How many souls have achieved nirvana throughout history? It’s like telling somebody to walk 20 miles instead of drive to work everyday. [/quote] Actually lower Yana Buddhism is like telling someone to walk 20 miles to work (and non-Buddhist vehicles would be like walking 2,000 miles). Dzogchen would be your concord jet. Anyway, the ‘having to come back to learn life lessons’ is more of an new-age thing, and maybe some ‘Hindu’ sects. Buddhadharma is about removing ignorance, not ‘learning lessons’ per-sé. I mean the two-accumulations (of merit & wisdom) are necessary, but it’s never said that it all has to be accomplished on Jambudvipa, as far as I know; it can happen in Buddhafields beyond samsara (i.e. not even ordinary deva realms; perhaps we could say that Buddhafields are like halfway between the Nirmanakaya and Sambhogakaya dimensions). [/quote]
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GRANDPA AND GRANNIE WORKED THEIR WHOLE LIVES. THEY WERE CARING CONSERVATIVE PEOPLE WHO ALWAYS OBEYED AND NEVER QUESTIONED REALITY.
THEY WERE VERY RELIGIOUS PEOPLE WHO DID REGULAR BIBLE STUDY AND WENT TO CHURCH EVERY SUNDAY.
AFTER PHYSICAL DEATH THEY SAW IMAGES OF DEPARTED LOVED ONES AND THEY EAGERLY ENTERED THE BEAUTIFUL WHITE LIGHT.
THEY WERE THEN SHOCKED TO SEE THE AFTERLIFE LOOKED VERY SIMILAR TO THE PHYSICAL WORLD. THERE IS BARS, STORES, HOUSES AND BUILDINGS.
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