Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-30160565-20181029192529/@comment-30160565-20181107033106

MJM1035 wrote: While I cannot claim to know a great deal about the literary, spiritual, or religious ways and means of defining and differentiating these "defilements" from each other I can offer a few suggestions as to the kinds of punishments that might be warranted. As I understand it Buddhism (like many of the religious and spiritual traditions the Subcontinent has produced over the millennia) believes that after one’s death one will be reincarnated. Morever reincarnation is thought of as an undesirable occurrence because the goal of one’s life is release oneself (and others if one is so inclined) from the cycle of suffering as represented by Karma. As I understand it Karma works by keeping a complete record of anything one has done both in one’s present incarnation and in past ones. These are then considered after each of one’s corporeal deaths to determine whether one will be reincarnated and if so what one’s next incarnation will be. If the balance is positive than one may be reincarnated into a higher form that the one that one previously occupied. If the balance is negative than one is reincarnated in a lower incarnation (as an animal for example). If my understanding in all this is correct than the most fitting punishment for virtually all of the defilements would be perpetual reincarnation into ever lower castes (if I may borrow a term, one which I personally find abhorrent in the extreme). As for a cinematic depiction of this process that I have but a few ideas about. In Dante’s Inferno King Minos (the same King Minos, or so I believe, who built the labyrinth to contain the Minotaur and where Theseus would later fight and slay the Minotaur) acts as a judge of those who have sentenced themselves to the Inferno and sentences them to wherever of the Seven Circles befits the sin that sent them to the inferno. perhaps something similar (but with appropriate Buddhist figures) would suffice but with reincarnation as the subsequent punishment. As for the reincarnations themselves the only real means of keeping track of them through successive incarnations would be, for example, having them encounter someone whom they knew in their past life in their new incarnation. Aside from that there are few ideas I can come up with that would make for any kind of storyline. But then I would much rather be one of guys building sets for performances than anything else. Well, it isn't suppose to be put into Buddhism, more so just if Dante made 108 circles.