The orthodox Dhamma teaches us that there is rebirth. One is not "off the hook" when this body dies.Ben wrote:This appear to be a very strange assessment and is contradiction to the Dhamma (as I understand it).Alex123 wrote:Furthermore the whole Buddhist path, in a certain way could be called "suicide"
The Dhamma is to make rebirth cease by cessation of all craving & ignorance.
[Mara:]
Why don't you approve of birth? Once born, one enjoys sensual pleasures. Who now has persuaded you of this: 'Bhikkhuni, don't approve of birth'?
[Cala:]
For one who is born there is death; Once born, one encounters sufferings — Bondage, murder, affliction — Hence one shouldn't approve of birth. The Buddha has taught the Dhamma, The transcendence of birth; For the abandoning of all suffering He has settled me in the truth. [133] As to those beings who fare amidst form, And those who abide in the formless — Not having understood cessation, They come again to re-becoming.
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It's only suffering that comes to be, Suffering that stands and falls away. Nothing but suffering comes to be, Nothing but suffering ceases.
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With metta,
Alex