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**Kimeoffessyr** · 12-01-2011, 04:07 PM

Interpreting Buddhist 'Cosmology' as a representation of mental states is fine as far as I'm concerned - and has been affirmed as such by a couple of teachers I've spoken to about it offline.

In general thinking about different 'realms' as real places somewhere I might go to in the future or have been in the past, is speculative - and irrelevant to my life in the here and now.

Buddha said :

"Let one not trace back the past
Or yearn for the future-yet-to-come.
That which is past is left behind
Unattained is the "yet-to-come."

(MN 131)

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipit....131.nana.html

12-01-2011, 04:07 PM	#9
Kimeoffessyr Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 514 Senior Member	Interpreting Buddhist 'Cosmology' as a representation of mental states is fine as far as I'm concerned - and has been affirmed as such by a couple of teachers I've spoken to about it offline. In general thinking about different 'realms' as real places somewhere I might go to in the future or have been in the past, is speculative - and irrelevant to my life in the here and now. Buddha said : "Let one not trace back the past Or yearn for the future-yet-to-come. That which is past is left behind Unattained is the "yet-to-come." (MN 131) http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipit....131.nana.html
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