Oh, One of the early Buddhist ideas is that the human life plays out on this plane between this lower

realm of demons which were known as Asura's and they largely took the shake of

aggressive demons and then sexual urges known as hungry ghosts, which were never satisfied.

So there was angry demons and hungry ghosts which were seeking constant pleasure.

So that was what was in the underworld.

And then there was this heavenly realm of Davas, which are angelic beings that are always calm and always chill, always

having a really pleasant time.

And we human beings exist somewhere in between.

And the idea is that this realm was the perfect realm for

Enlightenment because we have just enough suffering.

We have something to work.

Dave is, there are metaphors for those times in life where we're really completely at ease

and peaceful, but when you're in that state, you don't really learn that much about yourself. You don't really learn how to hold those difficult feelings,

those all the emotional palette of a human experience.

And when we're totally roiled up in anger or completely overtaken by lust or

cravings for drugs or whatever then we don't learn very much about ourselves

either and so the human realm was considered and we don't learn very much about ourselves either.

And so the human realm was considered to be this place

where we can actually get a great deal of insight.

In the Buddhist psychology, there's these things called taints as well which are difficult

energies that want to come out and express themselves,

sensual loss, fusion.

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