Buddhist View on Death and Rebirth

[ellisonz]

4. *bangs gong*

The way I think about it is in terms of energy. No energy is lost in the cycle of life in absolute terms - it simply changes form be it from dinosaur to an ape. The message is simple, life goes on, and on, and on it's suffering until we essentially all come to the realization that desire is the cause of our suffering and we stop the cycle. I suppose the heart of the superstition is whether you believe it is possible at all to obtain a state where you do not desire and therefore do not suffer. I think to some extent you have to have a basic belief in the idea that within life there is a certain soul even if it does not always know itself.

Am I making sense, anybody?