Complex, hence complicated

I've been asked this question thousands of times: What will happen to the world, if the entire human population is enlightened, so that there are no people to come back to samsara, or get reborn, the world will be strange place?

This question arises, when the reality of life is understood within its human dimension. It's common sense that, karmically speaking, nobody is able to determine the exact statistics of living organisms in the universe. Based on their karmic qualifications, living beings run through varied life forms, for instance, gods ending up in places of misery, and humans and animal ending up in places of bliss. Buddha has categorized the complexity of life as one of the realities hardest to comprehend within an average human mind. Karma is a vast subject, so vast it'll take me dozens of blogs to explain it. Anyway, there are trillions of living beings to 're-become' in the cycle of birth and death in human form of any other. Don't worry the world won't be devoid of humans, even if a Buddha appears today and enlightens all of them. In fact, no Buddha is able to enlighten everybody at the same time, since not all are equal and matured enough to get enlightenment in terms of karmic complications and level of perfections (Pali: paramita).

Different beings have different lifespan and mental capabilities, which I'd like to talk about some other time on a new topic: mental tendencies.

By the way, what do you think of the samsaric reality of the moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) in the picture?

Life is complex, hence complicated.

By Upananda Thero Dedunupitiye