What's going to happen to YOU when you die?

[PeterB]

He is good people. Thomas merton for the present generation.

[m0rl0ck]

I love this guy.

me too thank you

[m0rl0ck]

Another small reason to love this guy: http://www.gratefulness.org/qbox/item.cfm?qbox_id=170" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

David Steindl-Rast-- "Dear J.P., the God space is so vast that different space missions may bring back seemingly contradictory reports. When we speak of God, we should expect such paradoxes as fullness and emptiness. In fact, since all the opposites arise from God and are one in God, we should be suspicious of any God talk that is not paradoxical.
From early on, Christian theology has been aware that whatever we say about God, no matter how true, falls infinitely short of the full truth. (This strand of theology is called Negative or Apophatic Theology.) The emptiness of which Buddhists speak is, paradoxically, also the source of all fullness.
Don’t try to correct your spiritual advisors. Just add in your own mind what is missing. In controversies, as has been observed, most people are correct in what they affirm, but wrong in what they deny.
-- Your Brother David"

Wow

[dhamma_spoon]

Greetings,

If time is not unconditioned, it is conditioned. It therefore arises with all conditioned phenomena. Dependently.

Or.... "time" is just a concept, and it only arises (in its capacity as a concept) when somebody conceives of it.

Metta,
Retro.

Thanks, Retro. I also understand 'time as a concept' the same way you do.

Dhamma_spoon

[Vepacitta]

I'm going to answer the thread question directly:

What's going to happen to me when I die?

"I have no idea."

(I think speculation gets a person off the track. Its fun and I love fun but ... it's been occurring me lately that 'creating scenarios' (my father's favourite admonition 'stop creating scenarios') is just another form of grasping at self - essence - and clouds one's efforts to see things as they are)

Just my two groats on the issue. Metta and all that!

It's raining today on Mt. Meru, I sit on my front porch looking at the deer park across the way, sip my sweat tea and jabber away on my computer ... I have now reached ... nerdvana,

V.

[Annapurna]

Happy Nerdvana

[Vepacitta]

Vielen (sp) danke Annapurna for having a sense of humour!

V.

[Prasadachitta]

In my experience I think I forget time but I can never be sure because as soon as there is an assessment of time the past distorts the present and the future comes pouring in. Time must be like the mother of all concepts. It certainly is not an ordinary run of the mill concept.

Gabe

[Shonin]

The reality of what we experience is just this endless, ever-changing now, a now which includes memories and intentions - what we call 'the past' and 'the future'.

[Prasadachitta]

Shonin

Im not sure if I see much difference between "an ever changing now" and "time". I think I see what your getting at but... ???

Gabe

[Shonin]

Im not sure if I see much difference between "an ever changing now" and "time". I think I see what your getting at but... ???

We could talk about these things till the cows come home. I suggest you meditate on it.

[Phra Chuntawongso]

I heard that time was invented to try make the trains run smoothly in India.
When I die,this body will decompose.