e set for ourselves, or when our loved ones are sick or die, it causes suffering for us. Everything we do causes us to suffer. The one thing that all human beings have in common is that we all suffer. No matter what class someone is in, or how underprivileged a person is, we all suffer regardless. Suffering is a bond between all humans, its something that everyone understands and can comprehend. Buddhism teaches that birth, rebirth, and death are all a continuing part of the process of change. When you die, your soul is separated from your body, and it craves life. The soul then seeks out a new existence. There are six different realms that one may be reborn into after death according to Buddhism. These realms are gods, demigods, human beings, animals, hungry ghosts, and the hells. These realms include three relatively happy states, and three relatively miserable states. The realms of the gods, demigods, and human beings are considered more happiness and less suffering; while the realms of animals, hungry ghosts, and the hells are considered relatively miserable because living beings there suffer. You are reborn into these different realms, according to how you lived your last life. If you performed a lot of good deeds in your last life, youll be reborn into one of the relatively happy states, but if you were unwholesome in your past life youll be born into one of the relatively miserable states. The Buddha pointed out that whatever one is reborn as is not permanent. The realm into which one is reborn and ones conditions of rebirth are determined by ones past and present actions. This is referred to as the law of karma (Spirit Online). Due to the force of the karma, people are reborn in an endless process, from one realm to another. There is no permanent rest in this cycle of rebirth and death, declares Buddhism. Only when the eight-fold path is followed, can an individual reach nirvana, and then they are finally free...
