I’ve got a bit of a headache tonight, so I’ll go for one of the easier choices. This “question” can be taken in two different directions… what would my idea of paradise be and what do I suppose the after life is like. The first is easy. My idea of paradise would be a library where I could read as much and as long as I liked. It’s no secret that when I was a child, I’d stay up all night reading and be “sick” the next day from sleep deprivation. I’d sleep through the morning, or read some more, often skipping meals just to read a bit more. Sometimes I’d nap if my head started hurting too much, but eating… that seemed such a dreadful chore when there was reading to do. I’d have to take time out of reading to prepare the food and then time to eat… time better spent in reading. If I could get away with it, I’d still do that now. But since I have to work and earn money to support myself and buy more books, I suppose I must do the adult thing and go to bed at a proper time and eat as well.
As to what I suppose the afterlife to be like, it is whatever you want it to be, and it is also not at all what you expect it to be. There is no reward or punishment in death but what you mete out for yourself. Read What Dreams May Come (or watch the movie) and you’ll have some idea of what I’m talking about. (The book was better, but the book usually is.) It’s just a temporary thing though. Eventually, you move beyond that too. You become nothing, or everything, depending upon your point of view. To borrow from the Buddhist teaching, at some point you stop being you and become part of the weave of existence. You, as you define yourself, cease to exist. This is scary to some people because they see that as complete destruction, but it is more like going home or joining with and becoming what you were before splintering off to explore a unique perspective.
So when I die, you can all come visit my library. 
And then we’ll talk about reincarnating or moving on to Nirvana.
November 18th
In Persia, this was the Day of Ardvi Sura.
The Leonids meteor shower peaks on or around this day. It began on fourteenth and will end on the twenty-first. It is associated with the Temple-Tuttle comet.
Comments (3)
Thanks for the invitation. I am so there!!! I would love to peruse your library and talk about such awesome things.
That sounds awesome. I will definitely be at your library in the afterlife. :) I’ll bring my library and we can create a literary consortium in heaven. lol
I have a library too!