Today we visited Buddhist Hell, where you get reborn if you do bad stuff.
It is quite graphic, and only gets worse as we go.
So if you want to stop reading now you can.
Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Hell does not look pleasant. Given all of the skeletons and blood you would think it would be a short life. But lives in Hell are longer than lives on earth; in some cases longer than the age of the universe.
This is what happens if you tell a lie.
This is what happens if you are a monk or a nun and break the rules.
This is what happens if you steal, cheat or destroy other’s property.
But you may also wind up headless with your face in your torso for those same crimes.
And if you only steal small things you just get your hands chopped off. You don’t even have to go to Hell for that, there are plenty of countries on Earth that do that.
This is what happens if you get drunk. Yep, you pretty much just wind up drunk for a few billion years.
Unless you’re really unlucky, because one drunk guy winds up being force fed something red and apparently unpleasant.
It looks similar to what happens if you poison animals.
If you just drink alcohol but don’t get drunk, you wind up like this. So if you’re going to drink you may as well do it right.
This is the punishment for adultery.
This is what happens if you rape.
This is what happens if you use birth control.
This is what happens if you get an abortion.
This is what happens if you kill your husband and he was a good father. (It does not say what happens if he was not a good father).
And just in case you think you’re still doing OK, this is just for failing to donate money to the monks.
Of course there are boxes everywhere where you can put money to make up for your misdeeds.
Then you will wind up in a world with a tree that has everything you could desire.
Which I would think would make it difficult to give up desire to end suffering and make it to Nirvana. But tree land kind of sounds more fun than Nirvana anyway.
