Thank you for making and airing these videos, Budhism has changed my life. I turn to the teachings everyday for strength.

thank you for the entire series, I have been a witness to death of two people close to me, mother and husband.. changed my complete outlook , now less fearful .. the death of the body, the soul is eternal

9:21 Venerable Ribur Rinpoche 12:48 The Advantages of Meditating On Death 13:52 Venerable Karin Valham 17:36 The 9 Steps of Death Meditation 18:47 Students: What Does Death and Rebirth Mean To You? 19:02 Venerable Nawang Lekshe Pende 21:19 Ecie Hursthouse

Death and Reincarnation, and Karmic to another life is like depositing your money in one ATM and withdrawing it from another ATM. Its the same value (Karma) but the dollar that you deposited previously. For those who doesn't believe in afterlife...Buddha taught us that the last thought we have before we died reborn us to another realm.

Another great video. Really struck a cord with me. Reminds me of how I got on this path. Death is as important as life, you can't have one with out the other.

I'm quite fond of Buddhism and Christianity.

This has to be the best lesson I have heard on death.

Watching and listening to the teachers in all of these videos, there is a calmness, a grace and a flow to every movement, every breath and every word they utter that is absolutely ethereal and a truly moving experience to observe, even through a screen. Thank you for providing this wonderful opportunity to experience this. :)

This video, and the entire series, is greatly appreciated. I am curious why the discussion focused so much on death when rebirth is so much more interesting? Thank you again for a great series.

I feel so strongly about these teachings and beliefs, it genuinely means a lot to me, and I hope for one day I can show others these teachings and ideas as they are for the utmost benefit of society.

There is the materialistic view, which identifies the mind with the brain. And there's the mind only view, who tells that all the experiences are but projections of the mind, which is immaterial. During a deep meditation, you will see that neither the physical senses , nor the mental emotions are the original mind. The pure mind is formless, beginningless, it is peace which transcends the impermanent realities ( senses , emotions, thoughts ).

It depends on the fisherman's karma accumulated in all his previous lives right up to the moment of death. The wholesome karma created while he was feeding others may or may not be enough to compensate. However, in Theravada Buddhism, the act of feeding a highly noble person such as an arahant creates extremely wholesome karma. Interestingly, Ven. Moggallana, one of the Buddha's closest disciples was a serial killer and still attained final enlightenment in the same lifetime.

When I wake in the night and I can’t breathe I know I could die. Asthma has a way of reminding me that I too am impermanent in this life

Regarding to the rebirth, the Buddha said in the suttas that we are reborn because of our ignorance (attachments, the idea of self). They generate impure thoughts, and based on the kind of thoughts we identify with , when we die, these continue to generate existence.For ex: an angry and violent man will be born in animal realm, or a drug user or alcoholic will be born in ghost realm - the wandering realm. I think through meditation we will find all the answers. Good luck on your path friend ! :)

The mind is not formed of any cells at all my friend. It always existed and it's immaterial. It generates new bodies, based on our actions and our emotions in our previous lifes.

Is "rebirth" meant to be interpreted literally, or is it more of an idea to aid us adopting the proper mindset when practicing? This distinction seems like a very important point, at least to those of us interested in Buddhism who are coming from a traditional Western way of viewing the world. I guess I just find it strange that even the best Buddhist teachers, like Karin Valhalm in this video, don't seem to understand how jarring it is to us newcomers when ideas such as "rebirth" are casually thrown around as if they should be accepted without a second thought. By the way, these videos are great, and I very much appreciate that they have been made available like this. Thanks so much to FPMT!

i agree it fills me with love

Nothing is permanent! I ready here to change my body! 🥰happily!

a peaceful death is gift to everyone

“It was like he was on his last retreat before he died”... 🙏🏻❤️

Om mani padme hum! Namaste dear brothers and sisters 🙏 🪷

Thank you...very enlightening

Thank you for the Video :)

Dear Ugyen, Thank you for writing. One thing that I don't understand though. Does it matter if our mind is more than just a product of our pfysical brain and senses? I mean we think, we feal, we suffer and we can feal happiness. The dynamics are the same, right? And as you I agree that our lifes are made bye our present and an ever changing "now". How we behave now, makes the future 😊 And I am so happy that it does 😉 All the best.

I am confused. Around 23:00 she talks about dying in fear and the animal kingdom and she seems to say that animals live in fear and when you die in fear you have a good change to reincarnate as an animal. What? If there is anything on earth that is actually fearful, it's humans. We are afraid even if there is nothing going on. Animals only react on seeming danger right now and not about what maybe happens in three days, like we do.

This part of the video has reminded me of a major motivator for finding “religion” here... if you know what I mean.

Thanks you. Very beautiful. videos.

😊 thank you.

Totally agree :)

Lord Buddha ever said "Everyone can be a Buddha".. Namo Buddhaya 🙏🙏🙏

So the answer is that we are infinite ... because we are all interconnected so we never really die.. is not such a thing like death may be in a physical way but no completely.. so we are alive always in different forms.. so that doesn't mean that you are going to be unhappy without any purpose but without not fear

light is the bliss of that moment its the gate to the path forward ,it is the first step of releasing and realising of consciousness ... people who lived life ignorantly without realising the basic nature of impermanence as if death can not occur to them those kind of people become so delusioned and confused that they will not realise even after death that they have died and they will not even recognise that WHITE light and will not step inn out of confusion and the precious time is lost

This is probably the hardest for me to wrap my skeptical mind around. When people start to claim that the mind continues after death...well frankly you wander into faith at that point, i.e. nobody can prove what happens to you (yet) if anything. However I think the contemplation of death is a very good thing. I certainly hope to have some calm moments before I go but no guarantees right? I could also be subject to extreme pain and not have to capacity to focus. However knowing you are finished at death is certainly is a motivator to live a fulfilling life. Of course what constitutes a fulfilling life is different to a lot of people but it seems in the Buddhist Traditions a lot of it means having a calm mind. Thoughts? Perhaps a Buddhist can give me an answer or insight. Thanks I've been enjoying watching this series.

do you meet Avalokiteśvara when you die? people that have had a near death experience say they see a light, is this Avalokiteśvara?

who he mentioned at mark 12:07? tnx :)

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Good, real

Why is address of venerable and his holiness given so much of priority in Buddhism?

the determination of the next birth is not simple as that... while he may accumulate negative karma through fishing, that doesn't mean it's going to be the deciding factor... the mind at the time of the death plays a major role.. hard to explain it all in a comment.. look up death and rebirth on buddhist texts :)

Life is death. Death is life. No life. No death. Life is life. Death is death. Which one do you like...? There is a sunset in my place. Ending of autumn. Begining of winter. No snow today. Keep your spirit high. Cheers...!

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All human being final destination is cemeteries no soul better than rebirth. Thanks.

Depends on whether you end up rebirthing in her realm. There are thirty-one planes of existence in Buddhism so arbitrarily speaking you have a 1/31 chance of meeting her after you die!

I like the belief of relaxing to the point of being healthy and most of what the buddhist believe however not the stuff they can't prove such as past lives.How can they prove that we are a part of a past life? This is very odd to me and not something that can be proved

Who is the woman at 24 with the prYer wheel?

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Death and rebirth are natural No one have to right to changing in the process of Death and rebirth That's the universal truth If birth is here and death is waiting there Where there is no entry of any kind of matter Only the Energy have the permission to go beyond the Rebirth and death and That's the possible through the path of Dhamma which liberated from suffering misery and pain and bring the peace and happiness in our life

I dedicate

Peter Lee has deleted my reply to his comment in the thread he started. I feel that is improper because he has openly abused Buddhists and is refusing to allow a reply. So I am posting his comment and my reply here: Peter Lee: "i believe all words in the Holy Bible are inspired words of God. your twisted mind can only accept a small subset of the words of Jesus; you dare not even accept the first greatest commandment mentioned by Jesus; ok, I have accepted Jesus Christ as my savior and my Lord, and follow solely His path to eternal life; you follow your path of Tibetan Buddhism to destruction; this is your own choice; Buddha should welcome you in hell with ceaseless burning fire. Buddha and you together with other Buddhists should form a big party to "enjoy" there in eternity." (end of quote) Reply to Peter Lee: You say you accept Jesus as your saviour, but obviously you are NOT following Jesus' own commandment to "love your neighbour as you love yourself." That makes you a hypocrite. Just look at what you wrote above about Buddhists. If you love your neighbour as you love yourself, you will not so happily accept your neighbour being tormented forever simply for not blindly believing exactly what you believe! This, in fact, illustrates the most important way Paul contradicts Jesus. By listening to Paul instead of Jesus, you now find it impossible to obey Jesus’ own commandment! Remember Jesus himself said "Not everyone who calls me 'Lord, Lord' will enter the Kingdom of heaven" (Matthew 7:21). So please start listening to Jesus himself, instead of listening to Paul. Again, what Jesus is telling us to do is exactly the goal in Tibetan Buddhism. You can’t see this because you are listening to Paul, and not to Jesus. At the very least, you should stop denigrating a spiritual tradition that genuinely teaches universal compassion.

What is the Buddhist perspective of suicide?

almost there ... its better to think of death as a new birth , to live in this human form the old sperm and egg had to die ( in a way ) same as the caterpillar dies so the butterfly can live .. Simple ... you need to find your soul mate / cosmic sperm or egg ... and if blessed , you will live a life better than you can imagine after your , transition ... some say depending on how you do , you might have a redo here or get sent to another realm ... the creator wants to place you where you fit in best ... its not even like Hell ... kinda

I want to go to Nirvana ...

So... where is the actual evidence for rebirth? Also, death and suffering are not inevitable in principle, they are an engineering problem brought about by the non random survival of randomly varying replicators. Now change itself is inevitable, if meditation can help you cope with it, good for you.

Just want to say please don't believe anything Buddha said or anyone said before any prove.. Buddha said don't believe what he said blindly.

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rebirth is good news I hope my next rebirth is born in billionaire family.

Rebirth etc is only based on imagination.. nothing else.

A human death woke him up to the reality of the pain of death but countless deaths of slaughtered pigs did not!? Why is that? The pigs did not want to die either... No being wants to die.. People are so arrogant and only come to these teachings when they start to think about their own little egoic life.... I woke up at the death of a bird.... when I was a child. We are animals .. we are all animals in fear. We forget we are animals...Humans... all of them are in fear. There is no separation of realms. They merge. we travel through them all in life and death. It is all about not getting stuck .. And nobody knows what happens at death. Even the buddhists' ideas are simply concepts... beliefs.. to help overcome the fear.

Human souls reencarnate in human bodies, animal souls in animal bodies, another theory that doesnt make any logical sense, human souls reencarnating as animals,, buddhism has lots of precious teachings, but the anatman theory also, to me it´s a bit strange to say the least, and i just dont connect with those theories. Also, the soul its what we are, and the soul has 3 things that form us.....the souls, and they are the mind, the intelect and the sanskaras or personality traces which is formed through our experiences and decisions. The only way you can leave samsara or birth and rebirth is becoming Karmateet, or having cleansing our negative karma, and yet that doesnt releases us form the kalpa, which is circular and it will repeat itself, thus.....birth and rebirth again. And NO....we dont possess a soul....we are souls, mind is a function of us the souls......we arent minds, but again, this is what i believe, best wishes and limitless blessings to all beings :)

Any particular reason to believe this stuff? Where's the evidence? Kind of unfair if none.

hi, sorry to offend you, after learning many type of religion, the buddhism sound like and A,B,C of religion to me. You have to go further than that to know the Creator.He is not human and get angry if you pray to others. He just distroy the temple in Nepal. He also punish Indonesian but spare the 25 mosque in Indonesia. The tsunami miss the 25 mosque. use your brain and think. regarding the 25 spare mosque you can search in youtube. one thing for sure they collection donation. may amounting to million. the web site is can be access world wide. right?

I am sorry to say that the part of this module where the ambulance driver describes the horrific death of people spoiled the whole thing, it was completely unnecessary and wrong to put this part in. This was an enlightening series about an important religion which I wanted to send to all my friends, I understand the reason for including this part but just because of this, which will frighten people (which is completely against what Buddhism is trying to teach) I cannot forward this to my friends. Please remove the part of the ambulance driver!!!!

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