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Can I meet people in other pure lands?

Recently, I learned that there are many types of Pure Land.
My family is from the Jodo Shinshu sect, so I think I'll be reborn as Amida's Pure Land of Paradise.
Does that mean that people who believed in Amida Nyorai during their lifetime can be reunited in the Pure Land of Paradise after death?

Also, for example, if someone who believes in Yakushi Nyorai as the principal image passes away, they will go to the Pure Land called the Oriental Joruri Pure Land, right?
If that were the case, would I not be able to meet that person?

I'm new to Buddhism, so I'm sorry if something went wrong.
I would be grateful for answers from monks of various denominations.
Thank you for your support.

5 Zen Responses

I think we can meet people regardless of denomination

Nice to meet you today.

I took a look at your question.

For and against, no! that's wrong!! I think they'll say that...

I'm a monk at a Shingon sect temple. Ancestors, parents, friends... people's lives are connected to various people, and feelings and wishes are embedded in this body.

The adventure trip called life draws its own story, and since you walk as the main character, even if your life is different, everything is equal and the same, starting point and goal.

This is what I think.

There are no sects, races, or borders... the world of the equinox (afterlife) is connected, and it's a world where you can quickly meet people you want to meet without conflict or hatred.

Spirits enter the hearts of people in this world and walk together, ancestors! If you put your hands together, they will come to that place, and they will respond to your prayers with a smile... I believe so.

I think of a Buddhist altar as a telephone booth connecting this shore and the equinox.

I believe pure prayer transcends time, space, and borders.

The probability of being born into a human being and the fact that tomorrow will come... I think that is a miracle. I hope you can live the miraculous time of today, not yesterday, not tomorrow, in your own way, and now live the good things you can do without difficulty, and arrange your life's adventure trip in your own way while returning the favor to those around you.

Nanmu Daishi Hensho Kongo

Gassho

when you pass away, so do your memories

 Your memory is only controlled by your brain, so basically when you pass away, your memory also dies. So, basically, only your bereaved family and people involved remember you. Whether or not there is a Pure Land is Buddhist neutral. It is said that there is, but no one has seen what happens after death, and no one has come back. You can't prove it.
However, the feeling of caring for your loved ones is something you can only do because you are alive. People who died, for better or worse, continue to live among people who have strong feelings. It's a statue that can't be changed anymore. If you die by doing something bad, it will remain in people's memories as a bad impression, and people who have done good things will remain in people's memories as good impressions. To resolve the misunderstandings of people who have died, it is impossible to solve them without using the power of living people.
If someone important always comes up in your memory, cherish that feeling. It's the same as meeting someone important in your memory. In order to clearly remember those memories, please live a regular lifestyle on a regular basis, be concerned about your physical health, and do your best to reach out to people around you who are in trouble. It will help you better remember your loved ones.

I can meet you

I read it.
I think I'll be able to meet people who have passed away. Guided by the Buddha, I was born in the Buddha's Pure Land, and I can meet many people. Then, together with everyone, we will listen to the Buddha's story, and everything will be successfully attained.
By attaining Buddhism, in other words, by becoming a Buddha, you can acquire various infinite abilities. Also, you'll be able to go where you want in just an instant, and you'll be able to meet people you want to meet. You will also be able to save and guide those in need and suffering.

Buddha's teachings are teachings that lead everything to attainment of Buddhism. It's a teaching that leads and saves so many things beyond infinity, beyond time and space.

Therefore, you will always be able to meet your ancestors and close people. Right now, you and I are being protected and supported by so many things and our ancestors.
Please don't worry and do your best.

It's okay, we can meet again.

Being born in the Pure Land means
It means becoming a Buddha (becoming a Buddha).
Since the Buddha is beyond human imagination,
We can do everything we can think of.

Even if you were born in a different Pure Land,
It would be easy to move to another Pure Land.

I believe so.

The Pure Land is the world of Satori

It's a very difficult... and at the same time very important question. Please don't give an easy answer, and if this is really your challenge, please keep asking and checking for yourself.

No one knows what happened after death. Therefore, in response to the question of whether or not we can meet, the answer “we can meet” and the answer “we can't meet” is nothing but uncertain in a sense.

If you think of this question as Buddhism, it comes down to how it is explained in sutras.

It is true that there are many types of Pure Land. However, it is not “the Pure Land = the world after death,” but “the Pure Land = the world of enlightenment of the Buddha.”

The pure land is a world where the Buddha thought about what kind of world he would like to open up if he were to awaken to the truth during the ascetic stage, and that ascetic practice was accomplished.

Among them, if you read the sutras in Amida Nyorai's Pure Land of Paradise, people who say Namu Amida Buddha and Nembutsu are born there after death. It is described as a world where no one who prays nenbutsu in the hope of being born there is excluded.

When we hear that, we inevitably imagine that there is such an ideal world after death. Certainly, even in sutras, the Pure Land is described as a glittering, painless world.

However, in the first place, since the Pure Land is the Buddha's sacred world, it is a world that transcends such binary opposites such as presence or absence, self, and others, and it is a world beyond what we can see, hear, think, or imagine in our senses.

We are caught up in what we see, what we hear, and what we think, separate (evaluate them separately), and then get lost, and the world of the Buddha is beyond that.

However, that doesn't mean we can even hope to be born there, so it is described as a glittering world, for example, so that we can understand it, and that we wish to be born there.
This kind of expression is called “convenient (reading: hoben meaning: a way to get closer to the truth).”

This expediency depicts rich stories about the afterlife. Those of us who are alive want to be born there and meet everyone again.

But I think our reality is that there are people we don't want to meet. Even if I were born in the Pure Land just the way I am, it won't be any different from this Shaba world.

What is showing me who I am now is also the Pure Land.