Re: Difference between Citta and Brahma?
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2012 7:43 am
Agrees with you? Not at all. I realize that English is not your first language, which would then require that you take especial care in reading what is written. This text is not saying that nibbana is -- as you are suggesting -- some sort of buddhanature type ground upon which all "all sankharas and dhammas are based.' If that were the case, that notion would be common and fundamental throughout the suttas. It is not. You might want to give some thought as to what "ground" here means. Context is everything.DAWN wrote:"What, venerable sir, is the purpose of seeng rightly?"
"The purpose of seeng rightly, Radha, is revultion"
"And what, venerable sir, is the purpose of revultion?"
"The purpose of revultion, Radha, is dispassion"
"And what, venerable sir, is the purpose of dispassion?"
"The purpose of dispassion, Radha, is liberation."
"And what, venerable sir, is the purpose of liberation?"
"The purpose of liberation, Radha, is Nibbana."
"And what, venerable sir, is the purpose of Nibbana?"
"You have gone beyond the range of questioning, Radha. You weren't able to gasp the limit to questioning. For, Radha, the holy life is lived with Nibbana as its ground, Nibbana as its destination, Nibbana at its final goal."
How you can see Lord Buddha to is agree with me and my similies, and this kamma lead us (you and me), to the response on your doubts about it.