Buddhist Apocolypse?

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Buddhist Apocolypse?

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Hi guys. New here but had a question. Figured this might be the best place to ask.

What is the Buddhist view on the end of the/this world? I really try not to ponder such things anymore and focus on the here and now, but it came up today in conversation. I am not really one to put much stock in 'doomsday' prophecies that other religions have. I understand how we should view this world and that the end would not be how others would view it, if at all it ever will end. My past studies in gnosticism always kinda of lead me to a place where this world would be continually reborn, even after it's total destruction in a cycle, just like us. Caught in it's own 'samsara' so to speak. Curious if Buddhist see it as something similar.

Anyways just wondered what others thought.

Thanks!
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gordtheseeker wrote:What is the Buddhist view on the end of the/this world?
That it just the beginning of the next world in an endless cycle of contraction and expansion.
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What Greg said.

That, and it is inevitable.
དམ་པའི་དོན་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ཆེ་བ་དང་།
རྟོག་གེའི་ཡུལ་མིན་བླ་མའི་བྱིན་རླབས་དང་།
སྐལ་ལྡན་ལས་འཕྲོ་ཅན་གྱིས་རྟོགས་པ་སྟེ།
དེ་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ལ་ནི་ལོ་རྟོག་སེལ།།


"Absolute Truth is not an object of analytical discourse or great discriminating wisdom,
It is realized through the blessing grace of the Guru and fortunate Karmic potential.
Like this, mistaken ideas of discriminating wisdom are clarified."
- (Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche, from his summary of "The Ocean of Definitive Meaning")
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Thanks Greg. Good reply and kinda what I was thinking.

Regards,

gord
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conebeckham wrote:What Greg said.

That, and it is inevitable.
...and it all takes a very long time - see http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/buddhacosmo.html

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Excellent info Kim! Thank you! :twothumbsup:
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