Buddhists believe that heaven and hell are not permanent concepts. They feel that it is not reasonable to condemn someone to eternal damnation due to the weakness of the human spirit. Buddhists can work there way up from hell by using the merit that they have acquired in previous lives to make hell a temporary resting place.
According to Buddhist teachings the hell of our world is much hotter than the hell in any spirit world. Human beings are stricken with eleven kinds of pain and agony due to our base and immoral nature. (Greed, worry, pain (physical and mental), lust, hatred, decay, sickness, lamentation, melancholy and grief to name some of them.) Buddhists define hell as any place that has suffering (famine, disaster, poverty, etc.) is a hell for those involved in the suffering. Wherever there is prosperity, joy and love then that is a heaven for those that are having those good experiences.
Buddhism afterlife can be described as rebirth happening in any number of ways. Which way you enter Buddhism afterlife is shaped by the last thought that thought-time at the exact moment of death. If the person’s last thought was of something worth congratulations or otherwise merit worthy event then he will find a happy state in his future. This is a temporary existence as the person should always be striving for perfection and the Noble path to reach the Truth and finally Enlightenment.
Heaven in Buddhism is merely a place where those who have built up a stock of good deeds will experience the good times for a longer period of time and hell is merely a place where those who are evil suffer more mental and physical anguish as a result of their deeds while on this planet. Buddhism is not about hell fire and damnation. It is about mental discipline and building your character.
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