Heaven Is it Permanent?

Heaven, regardless of religion, is a goal for most people.

You may have used the phrase “If this happens, I could die and go to heaven.”

So it took me by surprise to learn that it is possible to go to heaven and come back. Let me explain.

The attainment of salvation can occur, according to our scriptures, if we live a good life. Take Buddhism, which tells you to live the noble eight-fold path, to attain Nibbāna.

For most of us, even that is impossible. We get lost in our emotions and needs. But some of us have. The Buddha, for example.

So why would the Buddha reincarnate and come back, having reached what I could only imagine being heaven?

In a strange twist, it seems, all desires cannot cease.

Even being in heaven gets boring after a while to be trite.

The concept has been described as yin-yang, duality, or that there are opposites and they will always counterbalance each other.

So while it is our desire to be in heaven while on earth, it is also our desire to be on earth when we are in heaven.

It may take millions of years because time is measured differently in the cosmos, but ultimately, you will desire to come back.

Things that are born must die, but that which dies must come back. That is the only way the cosmos can be in harmony.

Does that make the entire exercise futile?

Why bother trying to go to heaven if you are going to come back, anyway? But I suppose that is a little like saying why live if we are going to die anyway?

So what is our ultimate goal?

According to some streams of thought to be free of all the planes of liberation and achieve Arhat, which means to be free of liberation as well.

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