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**km2000** · 07-20-2012, 11:24 PM

Can we have Buddhism without any focus on life after death ?

Of course.

IMO, mental torment happens when we seek things like 'life after death' and we get entangled with such wilderness of view. We can see this mental torment when we get lost in those thoughts.

Gotma Buddha didn't taught religious mind but a mind free from mental torment.

Religious mind needs a perfect divine order to be at peace; mean it Kamma as a divine punishment system, streams of mind, streams of life, storehouse of kamma seeds, God, Universal Consciousness, intelligent designs, spiritual evolution through eons of lives, reincarnation/rebirth or whatever... and this happens when there is a deep existential angst.

Since I have never had religious believes of any kind I am at peace if I die not being completely enlightened. I don't think there are further lives nor I need that to practice what Gotma Buddha taught.

I think this is the only existence with which we can practice what Gotma Buddha taught.

He taught that mental torment is about clinging to the five aggregates. It is about craving for more...

He left an outstanding set of exercises and clear instructions to be followed in order to quench dukkha through ending clinging to the five aggregates at the Khandha Vaga of the Nikayas.

If stream enterer is reached well done. If not, that is not a problem for me.

What matters is this very present moment.

07-20-2012, 11:24 PM	#14
km2000 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 419 Senior Member	Can we have Buddhism without any focus on life after death ? Of course. IMO, mental torment happens when we seek things like 'life after death' and we get entangled with such wilderness of view. We can see this mental torment when we get lost in those thoughts. Gotma Buddha didn't taught religious mind but a mind free from mental torment. Religious mind needs a perfect divine order to be at peace; mean it Kamma as a divine punishment system, streams of mind, streams of life, storehouse of kamma seeds, God, Universal Consciousness, intelligent designs, spiritual evolution through eons of lives, reincarnation/rebirth or whatever... and this happens when there is a deep existential angst. Since I have never had religious believes of any kind I am at peace if I die not being completely enlightened. I don't think there are further lives nor I need that to practice what Gotma Buddha taught. I think this is the only existence with which we can practice what Gotma Buddha taught. He taught that mental torment is about clinging to the five aggregates. It is about craving for more... He left an outstanding set of exercises and clear instructions to be followed in order to quench dukkha through ending clinging to the five aggregates at the Khandha Vaga of the Nikayas. If stream enterer is reached well done. If not, that is not a problem for me. What matters is this very present moment.
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