Life, the Right to Live and Spiritual Death Based on the Buddhist Perspective

Abstract

This article presents life, the right to life and a spiritual death based on the Buddhist perspective. It consists of three mains issues: 1) the views on the meaning of life, lives’ aggregate and the value of life, 2) the right to life on the basic protection and non – violence and 3) the spiritual death based on the rebirth consciousness via the mental image of actions and course of existence. The results revealed in accordance with the Buddhist teachings that persons can independently perform the wholesomeness and  unwholesomeness by themselves. Therefore, man has the right to life. Moreover, it is accepted by the Buddhist doctrines that all beings are born with certain rights which they should respect and not violate each other. They have two certain rights viz., the right to life and the right to die. Last of all, the spiritual death is the passed away by meditating on death awareness and to realize on the truth of life with a mindful of the goodness that has done. He or she can realize the meritorious deeds in this life and in the next life. They will be born in the blissful states of existence. The findings show that this life must be our own and we must own life. We can determine our own lives for happiness or suffering as we wish and desire. As well as we can determine how we will die.