Existence

For the past four years I had been studying the teaching of the Buddha. It is not easy to fully understand the doctrine. Even the Buddha upon his attainment of supreme enlightenment was reluctant to teach as it was beyond the understanding of mankind. That was two thousand five hundred years ago. Few Buddhist today study his teaching in depth and are merely followers performing ritual ceremonies and reciting prayers.

In time I will post his teaching taken from some Pali language translation. One needs to know the fundamental laws of the Universe to understand Buddhism.

The Buddha never mentioned about God the Creator. He acknowledged there are ten thousand world systems in the Universe with life forms. Other world systems came in being long before our solar system exists.

The Universe is composed of five elements namely air, water, fire, earth and metal. Our physical form is basically our breath the air, the heat of our body the fire, our blood the water and our body the earth. The true consciousness is our mental state which is a non-physical energy form. We are mental state within a physical form not an entity with a self and in actuality an identity of our present lifetime.

All existences are either with form or formless and are impermanent subject to arising, being and ceasing. There are six realms of existence – human world, animal kingdom, ghost world, demonic world (asura), hell and heaven (devaloka or world of gods).