What Happens When I Die?

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Comment by Eric Allen Bell on December 5, 2011 at 2:22am

Alexi - For me personally when I was 39 and 40 was coming at me fast and I felt like it was all over, my sense of mortality was in the foreground.  I wrongly thought that my best years were behind me and I was afraid of growing old and eventually dying.  I needed to know what happens when I die.  I eventually made peace with it (See "A Fear of Death") but it is a question that has a tendency to bring many of us to the "Who Am I?"  a question - which is at the core of spiritual inquiry.  

Comment by Alexi on November 22, 2011 at 11:13pm

I'm curious - why do you think this blog has so many views over others?  Is it resonating for a particular reason? Am I missing the "Wow, now I totally get it!" moment (I am grinning as I write that question), or did it perhaps get picked up and cited by a major publication?  It's a fantastic piece, don't get me wrong - there is just so much great content on this site I'm really, really curious why this one in particular is getting so many eyeballs.  Thoughts?

Comment by william j. mcgrath on November 9, 2011 at 5:43am

Nichiren Daishonin said, "Sufferings are nirvana only when one realizes that the entity of human life throughout the cycles of birth and death is neither born or destroyed".

 

 

Comment by Erik John Ragnar Wedendal on October 29, 2011 at 3:30am

I escape to my dreams when Im tired of being alone. Could that be a transcending truth?

And if so. Why not genuinly enjoy my own creation?

Even if time is an illusion its there. My body, my history and my mind are all fabrics of eternity, but they are still there. Ive been searching, and I still am. But I think ill settle as a human and embrace my search until I find something else I want.

I guess love can be the thing I crave and Im starting to realise Im alone is responsible for the outcome of this great mystery. See even if I cant fly like a bird or swim like a dolphin I can love them and feel myself in their place. I think thats why human love is the closest thing to love yourself on this physical level. To grasp wholeness makes you appreciate the ever changing uniqueness in the world. And Im sad to say it, I dont believe it can be tought. It can be introduced as a possibilty, and more important, a critical approach to life must be rewarded if we want to come to any understanding.

But Im not even sure of that. I dont even think we can understand anything, we can only percieve and chose love or hate, trust or mistrust, forget or forgive, etc etc.

And these words are only symbols Ive come across on my journey reflecting something I wish to believe in.

Im struggling, but Im beginning to like it.

Comment by R Couchie on November 27, 2010 at 6:59pm

What happens when I die? I go home and I prepare to come back. My job here is to serve. Ultimately I hope to help everybody to get back home and where I will be the last one in line. When I get back home I will look back and see where I came from and what I have to done to make that place a better one. Where I created more positive energy, where I laughed much, where I loved and shared love. Where I only spoke good things about those around me and did not ad to the unhealthy energy that surrounds us all. When I get back home I will know what it was I was supposed to work on in my last incarnation and use that as basis for my next journey. I will thank all those who watched over while I was away from home, guides, angels, family and friends and so on and so on. The list goes on and I know one day I will stay back and those who are away from Home. That's part of what happens to me when I die and leave this existence. Smile and enjoy the ride. Treat this life as if it were a roller coaster ride. Two things you do on a roller coaster ride, throw your arms up in the air and scream like a little girl and when you done say let's do that again and again and again. Have fun, learn, love, serve, and laugh.

Comment by Clara Haven on October 19, 2009 at 11:23pm

I never even thought to look at it that way. Thanks for the insight! I keep reading this over and over.