generate bodhicitta often, it's a wonderful feeling. :) suddenly
realising some special insight is also a wonderful feeling.
when our three thousand great thousand world is coming to
an end, yes, hell is going to be empty first, then follow by
spirit, animal, human up to the 3rd jhana heaven.
http://buddhism.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/152247
After the Existence Kalpa, the Destruction Kalpa begins. Within
this Destruction Kalpa, there are also 20 small kalpas. During the
19th small kalpa, sentient beings in every world, including the
earth world, of the Three Thousand Great Chilocosm will be the
first to be destroyed. Then, through aeons of kalpas, as a result
of the efforts of many Buddhas and Bodhisattvas of the Ten
Directions in the Three Periods (past, present and future) to
enlighten sentient beings, all sentient beings learn to change
their wicked ways and lead virtuous lives instead. When many
sentient beings transmigrate from the six realms of existence into
the human realm and successfully received the guidance, and when
hell has emptied so that there isn't a single sentient being left
there, then the 20th small kalpa of the Destruction Kalpa starts.
Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva () vowed: "As long as hell is not empty, I
shall not become Buddha. Only when all sentient beings are guided
and saved, will I attain supreme enlightenment." One can thus see
that the great vow of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva can be accomplished.
All sentient beings can be guided and saved, and he will then
attain Buddhahood.
Before the 19th small kalpa, all the sentient beings that are above
the 1st Jhana [1] , and in all the worlds from the 1st Jhana down
to the Hell of Ceaseless Suffering, will transmigrate, each
according to his own good karmic seeds of the past. Some will
transmigrate above the 2nd Jhana; some will surpass Three Fields of
Existence (World of Desires, World of Forms, and World of
Formless); and others will arrive at Pure Lands of Buddhas
elsewhere. At this time, the world of sentient beings will be
totally ruined. Only then, at the end of the final phase of the
last small kalpa, will the "Three Great Calamities" occur,
destroying all the material worlds. These three calamities of fire,
water and wind will not occur simultaneously, but each will take
its turn. At that time, balance in space will be lost, planets of
all the worlds will leave their orbits, and looking from the earth,
one will see seven suns appear in the sky at the same time. The
suns' fiery heat will burn up all the worlds. The destruction will
reach the farthest depths of the Hell of Ceaseless Suffering,
including all the worlds of the Three Thousand Great Chilocosm
World of Desires, and even the 1st Jhana of the World of
Forms.
After the passing of the "Great Fire Calamity" comes the "Great
Water Calamity". The worlds from the 2nd Jhana Plane in the World
of Form down through the Hell of Ceaseless Suffering will be
engulfed by floodwaters.
Next, the Great Wind Calamity follows. All the worlds below the 3rd
Jhana down to the Hell of Ceaseless Suffering will be blown away
like dust. All the materials will be dispersed into oblivion.
this is just our single three thousand great world. hell beings
who's "sentences" are way more than the time span of a single three
thousand great world are transmigrated to other world system's hell
realm. and there are countless other world systems out there.
that mean still got hell in other world system even though our's
are empty.
when Guan Yin take over Western Pureland, sentient beings will
suffer less where there's no dark period of no dharma. and
when Great Strength bodhisattva take over, beings will be even
better. i cannot imagine how better. beings without ignorance,
without hell realm? will see. :)
but all and all is going to be better and better in the "end".
:)
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