Is life extinguished, or does it continue? "Only by recognizing our powerlessness over our own life and death can we face the transition from one to the other with composure and equanimity," says Lin Ku-fang. But, he adds, Buddhism acknowledges that there are worlds into which human consciousness does not reach, and perhaps heaven is a space in which states of existence are possible which humans cannot perceive.
「只有照見自己生命的不自由，面對生死交關，可以光風霽月，無有恐怖」，林谷芳說，但佛教承認人有意識未達的世界，天堂，可能是人類無法認知到的生命形態存在的空間。