Blog Prompt 11

As every religion carries their own rules to a better place. Whether it’s heaven or any destined placed where people rest after death, rules play a major part into this journey. As the question is if right action would mean less suffering, the way of looking into this is that if people would be suffering through life before death and then after death will they be able to rest and not suffer in hell. Well in the noble eightfold, right action develops the explanation of what people do in order to have this followed correctly. As said in the Tricycle article, ” Right action aims at promoting moral, honorable, and peaceful conduct. It admonishes us that we should abstain from destroying life, from stealing, from dishonest dealings, from illegitimate sexual intercourse, and that we should also help others to lead a peaceful and honorable life in the right way.” In a simpler way, be the person that avoids negativity. Be the one that pushes temptation away form thyself because if temptation overcomes then you would be failing what this component is striving for. Honesty will be there because one’s integrity will always be a honorable thing to have in life just as a good trait. In a way i believe that if all of this is done and followed as instructed any individual in the after life will be able to rest and will avoid suffering. Like i said the afterlife, as in the actual living life people would suffer because all of this could be done without control in certain situations and if it’s in that case then many will suffer because maybe they were pressured and that’s when it goes downhill for them and suffering begins, due to the influence and hatred by others. So with the other people not liking what that individual did they would probably make him suffer. Therefore i believe people would suffer less if they follow the rules but only in the afterlife. Other than that between those two readings had truth in the readings. They both had it as a big deal there they believed that suffering would be able to be “cessation” if truth was there and lying wasn’t in place. Which in many cases makes sense because much more pain comes from lying than other things. Compassion and feelings are also a big idea done in these articles that would eventually help the ending of suffering and would have them hold a higher moral. They withstand with the idea of them being a better person and then they will eventually become someone that suffers less.