Where Do You Go After You Die?
People often ask “Where do you go after you die?” Do we simply vanish into nothingness? The Buddhist monk, author, and teacher Thich Nhat Hanh says "If you know where you are going in the present moment, you will suddenly know where you will go after you die." Simple, yes? But what does this actually mean? Here is my understanding of it. I don’t normally see it, but in each moment of my existence, I am dying and being reborn, and this process takes place both internally and externally. At the internal level , cells in my body are constantly dying and being replaced by other cells. Thoughts, emotions, and sense perceptions arise and die and new thoughts, emotions, and perceptions are born to replace them. ...
