parinibbana
parinibbana
Is this leaning towards an eternalist view, that something beyond physical death lasts forever?
“Knowing that this body is just like foam,
understanding it has the nature of a mirage,
cutting off Māra’s flower-tipped arrows,
one should go beyond the King of Death’s sight.”
understanding it has the nature of a mirage,
cutting off Māra’s flower-tipped arrows,
one should go beyond the King of Death’s sight.”
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Re: parinibbana
Dependent arising lasts forever. When we see Dependent arising we see the Buddha.
Not existing
Not non existing
Not both
Not neither
Metta
Gabriel
Not existing
Not non existing
Not both
Not neither
Metta
Gabriel
"Beautifully taught is the Lord's Dhamma, immediately apparent, timeless, of the nature of a personal invitation, progressive, to be attained by the wise, each for himself." Anguttara Nikaya V.332
Re: parinibbana
The buddha teaches the ending of dependent arising which is what leads one to nibbana. If there was no ending to dependent arising then there would be no nibbana as there would be continuous birth?
“Knowing that this body is just like foam,
understanding it has the nature of a mirage,
cutting off Māra’s flower-tipped arrows,
one should go beyond the King of Death’s sight.”
understanding it has the nature of a mirage,
cutting off Māra’s flower-tipped arrows,
one should go beyond the King of Death’s sight.”
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Actually the Buddha teaches the ending of Suffering.
Transcendental Dependent Arising has no end it just leads endlessly away from suffering.
The Buddha teaches two basic types of Dependent Arising. That which leads endlessly to suffering and that which leads endlessly away.
Seeing clearly into the type which leads to endless suffering is what we need to do in order to give rise to the type which leads us forever away from it.
Metta
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Transcendental Dependent Arising has no end it just leads endlessly away from suffering.
The Buddha teaches two basic types of Dependent Arising. That which leads endlessly to suffering and that which leads endlessly away.
Seeing clearly into the type which leads to endless suffering is what we need to do in order to give rise to the type which leads us forever away from it.
Metta
Gabriel
"Beautifully taught is the Lord's Dhamma, immediately apparent, timeless, of the nature of a personal invitation, progressive, to be attained by the wise, each for himself." Anguttara Nikaya V.332
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there are ten things which are not to be answered! they are not beneficial to the endclw_uk wrote:Is this leaning towards an eternalist view, that something beyond physical death lasts forever?
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He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
...
He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
John Stuart Mill