Existence

There is infinite number of lives in this universe. As Buddha’s teach there are many type
of lives including gods, men, animals, goblins etc. and they are living in 31 types of
places including heaven, earth, hell etc. Death and reborn of those lives continually
occurs and no beginning of this processes, so Buddha said “There is non-seen
beginning of universe, I can’t see the beginning”. Buddha said this is not because of
Buddha can’t see the beginning, because of there is no beginning. How to see if
something does not exist?

Existence with no beginning is infinitely long. So, everyone has born on every type of
lives. And they have born on each type infinite times. So long that there is no place in
this universe such that each life is not born, not lived, not died.
This universe is so long. So, Buddha said it is difficult to find a life such that not lived as
a mother, father, brother, sister, son or daughter of each other. During the whole circle
of this life, the amount of milk drunk from the mother, the amount of tears fallen during
crying and the blood fallen from the cut of our neck by others are higher than the
amount of water in the sea.

And also Buddha said, when you see ugly person you should think I have been like this
before. And when you see a rich person, you should think I have lived like this earlier.

In this circle of lives, animals often birth in bad places. So hell is like home for them.
(There are four type of hells as Buddha’s teach).So each animal has been lived infinite
times as a very sad goblin who had received food and water only per once a hundreds
of years to satisfy their hunger and thirsty. And each animal has boned infinite times in
very sad hells those fearful demons has given pain by cutting from knives and axes,
hitting by spikes, pouring lava immeasurably.

So Buddha teaches a one and only solution for these suffering which is “Nirvana”.

Translated content from the book “Bauddhayage Athpotha(Most Ven. Rerukane

Chandavimala Himi)”