The people who believe in reincarnation believe that their sins will follow them and punish them in the next birth if they are not punished in this birth. But in my opinion I don't think that it is happening because there is no after life. I believe that the sinners are punished before their lives end. Some say that some sinners have not been punished. They might have been appeared as sinners to the outer world.
Reincarnation is not at all possible. No one lives after death in any form. There are spirits but they are separate elements.
God's direct intervention in individuals' affairs is very rare. God doesn't watch each and every human being at the same time and cannot live with each and everyone to guide them. These works are done by the spirits. God had created different kinds of spirits for various purposes. He had made the spirits to watch, guide and determine the destiny of the human beings from their daily activities, talks and thoughts too. Your past determines your present and your present determines your future. God has given freewill to all creatures including human beings. According to this, all human beings have all right to live a life as they wish. But if it happens to be bad and hurts someone, they have to face the consequences. These consequences are created by spirits. It's a natural system. After death no one lives in any form. Heaven and hell are only for spirits, not for human beings. God is a mystery even to the spirits. Spirits are not eternal beings but their lifetime is long. Spirits are separate elements. A human being during his/her lifetime is living with many spirits which have joined one by one since birth. They are knowledge, skills, feelings, emotions, instincts, interests and everything. Further there will be always some spirits with you on behalf of your parents, friends and relatives. Only these spirits make you remember them in a certain situations. All of these spirits are your consciousnesses and memories. Even thoughts are not your own. For example, when you want to take a decision on a subject, one after another the spirits think and you just listen, choose or reject the ideas which they transmit to your mind through your brain in the form of thoughts. A mind is a group/formation of many spirits which have joined one by one since birth. A mind is just like a computer's mind. After the destruction of a computer completely you will not get its mind. The same is the case with the human beings. A brain is a device used by the spirits to control the body and mind. (A senior spirit or a chief can control other spirits) A human being doesn't have a spiritual body. Soul is an energy needed for the functionality of a body. It is not a spirit or anything else. A body's functionality is based on the auto mechanism. After death all spirits which accompanied a person quit and go to different places searching new bodies. No one lives after death in any form. All human beings are just robots made of flesh and bones and toys of the spirits for their games.
There is no hell or heaven for human beings. They are only for spirits. I guess that the heaven is just the sky and hell is the prison for spirits. Good spirits are free to go anywhere in the sky but bad spirits are put in prison for certain years. I guess that certain evil spirits are destroyed completely. Spirits' lifetime is limited. If what they (spirits) have said is true, they live approximately for 400 to 500 years. This is close to the Indian Hindu's belief that a human being has seven births. That means Hindus believe in reincarnation but I don't.
For a reincarnation to occur, all spirits which lived with a body must possess another person together. Then only he/she can feel the same person who died. But this is not happening because the spirits never stay together to haunt or possess another. They go searching new bodies. Rarely there might have been certain cases but I think they have changed after some time. I mean, they (humans) didn't able to remember anything after certain age. Spirits during their life time live with many bodies (one after another). Their memories sometimes affect the person. This is natural. This is not enough to believe that there is rebirth. No one returns after death. All human beings’ lives end with their own bodies.
There is always a common fate which is always applicable to all creatures including human beings. That is, human beings are like other creatures except that they have an additional sense (sixth sense). This sense had changed only the living conditions of the human beings but not the fate. The fate is almost same to all creatures including human beings.
pain and suffering
Chaucer believes fortune decides someone's suffering, while Dante believes that suffering is a consequence of sin. (@pex)
By achieving Nirvana, silly.
The essential Buddhist teachings are that ignorance leads to attachment and aversion which in turn lead to greater suffering. The Buddha taught that if you increase your ignorance you are likely to experience greater suffering.
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To avoid dehydration.
In many religious traditions as well as the Greek mythology, Hell is a place of suffering and punishment in the afterlife, often in the underworld.
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Because he though life was filled with suffering and he wanted to avoid it. Buddhism is the path he designed to avoid such sufferings.
There are no specific formula to avoid cold. You can take safety precautions like proper diet, proper water drinking, avoiding people who are suffering from cold, daily exercise and avoid antibiotics.
Death, the afterlife, and how our choices and actions in life influence it. The trip you cannot avoid taking is death.