What happens when you die?

[foxyluva]

Originally Posted by markolas

I tend to believe in some form of reincarnation. But reincarnation in Buddhism works a little differently than they way most people think of it, because the Buddha taught there's no individual soul. But even before I practiced Buddhism, I felt like I'd been around the block, so to speak.

There is also heaven and hell in Buddhism, but it doesn't work the same way as the Christian concept. Your soul doesn't go there forever when you die - it's possible to be reborn as a heavenly being or a hell being, but you're still mortal; you die and then are reincarnated again.

Anyway - none of this is too terribly central to my daily practice of Buddhism, and I actually take kind of an agnostic view of it, although my tendency is to defer to the teachings of the Buddha. I do think there is some kind of reincarnation, for sure - and I hope there is a hell and that some certain people go there, although that's probably not a very Buddhist attitude.

I also share this belief