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Originally posted by Zephyr
Like i dont want to go to "Hell" or commit a sin etc etc...
Lama Zopa Rinpoche
...There are eight hot hells. If all the fires on this earth were put together it would be like cool air compared to one tiny spark of fire in the first hot hell. You can see from this how unbearably hot just one spark is compared to all the earth’s fires. It is said that the world-ending fire that will even melt the Rocky Mountains is 60 times hotter than the fires we experience. That tiny spark in the hells is seven times hotter than the world-ending fire.
The lifespan in the first hot hell is unbelievably long. Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand explains that human years are equal to a single day for a class of deities known as the Maharajikas. Counting 30 such days as one month and 12 such months as one year, the Maharajika deities live for 500 years. The entire life span of a Maharajika deity counts as a single day in the Reviving Hell, the first hell, and 30 such days count as one month, and 12 such months as one year. Thus, the life span of the beings born in the Reviving Hell is equal to 500 such years. This means that these particular hell beings live for a period of 1,620 billion years. Then it doubles in the next hot hell.
The first hot hell is the Reviving Hell, where you revive from death again and again. In the Black Line Hell the suffering is much hotter and the life span is double. It continues like this, getting hotter and hotter and the life span doubling. It is unbelievable. It is the same for the eight cold hells in terms of the cold and suffering increasing in each cold hell.
Due to heavy negative karma, when you are born in the hells, your skin is sensitive, like when you have an infection. It is very thin skin, so that wherever it is touched is very painful. If the hell being’s body were small maybe it would be OK, but it is as large as a mountain and suffers so much. The pieces of the hell being’s body fall to the hot ground and the blood that spills has consciousness, so you suffer so much. This is the result of your mental afflictions and heavy negative karma. For example, some people die easily from a slightly harmful condition but some people don’t die and suffer for a long time. Even though they are in a fire they burn but don’t die. Or they are lost in the mountains, covered with snow and ice, but they don’t die for many days. Some people have cancer and various heavy sicknesses, but they don’t die and suffer with the disease for many years...
Originally posted by Tamahu
Gnosticism is the original Christianity, which is pretty much identical to Buddhism.
Originally posted by Tamahu
Gnosticism is the original Christianity, which is pretty much identical to Buddhism.
Originally posted by Tamahu
Yeah, all of us "heretics" are going to burn in Hell for All-Eternity for not believing in the exoteric Roman interpretations of Christ right?
Originally posted by selfless
It's wrong for you to care what we think is wrong for you to do.
Originally posted by Tamahu
It is better to start with feelings of strong devotion and Bodhicitta, than to fill our heads full of intellectual knowledge like I have done.
Gnosticism is the original Christianity, which is pretty much identical to Buddhism.
The following two articles explain the most solid Foundation that one can Build their Spiritual Path on:
Generating Bodhicitta
The Transmutation of Sexual Energy
Without these two Foundations^^^(which are really One Foundation), the whole thing falls apart like a house built on sand.
Originally posted by Fifth Horseman
Tamahu, you are probably the most helpful person on ATS when it comes to religious topics. It is also notable that you do so without an air of smugness around you and do not allow yourself to be pulled into arguments, but usually diffuse with a simple one liner. Thanks for being that person
Originally posted by clearwater
Faith without works is dead.
Originally posted by Sun Matrix
The Romans have nothing with it.