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Core Value # 6: There is life after death

 

This core value surmises the continuity of life after death.

 

This core value surmises the continuity of life after death. Life does not simply cease when we die. Only the physical body will decompose, but our spirit will comtinue its journey. This view is shared in one way or another by nearly every form of organized religion. In fact, whether or not one believes it or not, this core value is positive in its implications because it means that the results of peoples’ actions during their lifetime are not nullified but continue to give their results even after death. It gives a sense of responsibility from one lifetime to another. It leads to the implication that if you love yourself, then you have to think of your future.

 

deeds, good or bad, will catch up with one.

 

It means that you have to learn to live with others and understand their differences, instead of taking shortcuts, manipulating others in the short-term, because one knows that eventually, whether in this lifetime or in the hereafter, the effects of one’ s deeds, good or bad, will catch up with one. As for athiests, humanists and “free-thinkers’ who don’t believe in an afterlife, it is still useful to give retribution from one’s deeds in future lives the ‘benefit of the doubt’ , just in  case life after death turns out to be true. Apart from avoiding retribution that turns up in the present life as the result of the unskilful actions one has performed, if it turns out that death is not the end of the story, one will spare oneself the suffering of retribution in the hereafter-because ultimately prevention of karmic retribution is better than cure!

 

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