| Buddhism doesn't need to teach what comes after, its not interested in satisfying someones clinging on for life, be it on earth or a heaven, but to end the grasping.
Buddhism 101. (i learned about buddhism principally from The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, so my knowledge is from a death perspective)
All life is suffering (oh how positive). Any pleasure you derive is temporary, and its inevitable loss is just another pain to add to your misery. This suffering is because we 'grasp'. We constantly try to hold on to that which is fleeting. If we are to end our suffering, we must end our grasping.
Reincarntation occurs because our soul still grasps at life, and so we return to life just to go through all of this pain again.
Buddhists seek enlightenment (i won't go into how here). An enlightened person is someone who has stopped grasping, and realised themselves. When this person dies, they will not return (unless they want to, mahayana buddhists intend not to release from life untill they have helped everyone else). This is Nirvana, buddhists usually don't describe nirvana because they're bright enough to realise they don't know what it is, they would have to be there to know that.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill |