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What's on your nirvana bucket list?

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 What's on your nirvana bucket list?

Question

Before you become an arahant, attain final nirvana,

what are some things you would like to do?


#1 on my list, I'd like to converse with the Brahmas of the nonreturner realm (I don't want to be reborn there! Too long of a lifespan) and ask them some question about Dhamma and kamma, since they have such a long life span (hundreds of aeons) many of the residents have seen many Buddhas come and go.

a. What was the defining event(s) that ended each Buddha's dispensation?

b. Since the Brahmas of the nonreturner realm have a such long lifespan, they have much deeper direct seeing of the effects of kamma.

Just as rich white collar criminals who commit nonviolent crimes but harm millions of people seem to escape punishment in this life but surely must suffer some negative consequence,

what happened to Buddhist monastics who corrupted the Dhamma knowingly and intentionally, but were overall very virtuous? Especially monastics who had key roles in ending a buddha dispensation, or whose actions in corrupting Dharma created a Buddhism that was not evil, but definitely not the original Buddhism from that Buddha? You would not expect these monastics to end up in hell with violent criminals, and you wouldn't necessarily think violent bad luck would happen to them in the deva realms they were reborn in (such as getting life cut short), but you'd think something very bad must be a fruit of that karma of corrupting the Buddha's pure Dharma.


#2 on my list, I'll visit a short list of family and close friends reborn in various realms, check on their spiritual progress, make sure they're not being slackers and playing around in the deva realms instead of working towards enlightenment, say my final good byes and wish them good luck and speedy progress.


#3... that's it. nothing else on my list.

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