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October 10, 2011 |
Buddhists do not think in terms of linear time. To them, time spins out continuously as the wheel of samsara, the never-ending cycle of life. In that kind of system, there is no "end" of time. There is, however, a final end to the succession of reincarnated human lives. Buddha taught that we all eventually come to the fulfillment of our ultimate consciousness. This happens when we attain Nirvana.
Other religious traditions sometimes picture their founder as "going" somewhere, accompanies by lights and celestial messengers, and then returning at a cataclysmic day at the end of time. In Buddhism the understanding is somewhat different.
In modern terms, Buddha did not so much explode outward as implode inward. Just as a star collapses in on itself, becoming a black hole that draws everything into the void, Buddha is now drawing all things into Nirvana, the place with no dimensions and no mass, the place beyond all pairs of opposites, the eternal consciousness from which all things come and to which all things return.
"Buddha Consciousness" is present in everything and all people. We don't normally experience it without training, but we are a manifestation of it and will eventually come to understand the the life we think we are living, although real, is ultimately an illusion. After man lives of discovery, we, like the Buddha, will "recline" and be freed from samsara and suffering. |
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