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ako lang i-rephrase... if eternity ang heaven... and you say we can achieve heaven while still alive, why do we feel hungry... hungry is a displeasure.
correct. Now is Eternity.
Can you not be happy NOW which is eternal when it comes to state of being? Of course, clinging to temporary state doesn't mean NOW is not eternal. Everything changes but the mind that is STILL transcends anything that is pleasurable and painful.
Now, being hungry is a condition that the body expereinces but the question is: Are you body? You can feel the pain but the pain is not you. The real you is not that or this body. The real you is eternal.
Buddha, Jesus, and other masters and saints have experience bodily pain and yet they also experience HEAVEN!