How do you think the world is going to end as we know it today and why?
There is this old Buddhist torture which goes thus: get yourself into the most comfortable position possible. Spare no expense and make yourself really comfortable and happy. Now stay there fixed in this position. After a few minutes, you might start to get restless. After an hour, it ceases to be very pleasant. After a day you are in considerable pain. After a week you are crippled, and after a month you are dead. Even trees that are rooted in the ground sway in the wind and welcome the endless movement of animals. The world will end as we know it today tomorrow morning. It is quite impossible to hold onto everything to eternity precisely as we knew it today. For example, the world I know today is half-covered with thawing snow. It might last the night, but if the sun comes out tomorrow, it will soon turn to slush and the ground to mud. The snowman we lovingly made in our image will droop and melt and his eyes will fall to the ground. Some of these changes are seasonal. Some are subtl
