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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pessimist" data-source="post: 24980638" data-attributes="member: 566496">that's exactly the essence of buddhism. hells, heavens, this world, all these places and forms of being are temporary and invoke sadness and dissatisfaction in beings. the only way to overcome all that is ceasing to exist. a cosmic suicide id call it. killing that thing which makes u feel as if u exist throughout ur existence in many forms.we get reborn somewhere after our death because we desire to be born. getting rid of that desire requires training. that's what they do in meditation. they train to concentrate their minds in one thing and then contemplate the meaningless and undesirability of all forms of life. when ur mind stops having certain desires those states are given names like sovan, arhat etc. when u fully understand the reality u wouldn't have the slightest desire to be born or exist and with ur last though in that life ur whole existent ceases to exist.</blockquote>

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