JC938 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 19, 2021 1:49 pm I have no friend.

Buddha is a friend

that would be something additional on top of the actual experience. “There is that sphere where there is no earth, no water, no fire nor wind; … there, there is neither this world nor the other world, neither moon nor sun; this sphere I call neither a coming nor a going nor a staying still, neither...

Mangaka wrote: ↑Tue Jan 19, 2021 7:15 am What if there is someone who lives in a place where aren't bhikkhus around

https://www.youtube.com/

JC938 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 18, 2021 6:03 pm Is wanting to earn wealth so as to become financially stable greedy?

Lou Mannheim wrote:The main thing about money … is that it makes you do things you don't want to do.

sphairos wrote: ↑Mon Jan 18, 2021 6:49 pm Anyway, stop eating sugar. Not more than 20g a day. This alone will easily make you lose 10-15 kg.

JC938 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 18, 2021 1:02 pm I need to lose some weight.

Only eat after 12

It isn't a state of mind. Buddha some­times preferred to explain what Nibbāna was not. It was, he told his disciples, a state where there is neither earth nor water, light nor air; neither infinity or space; it is not infinity of reason but nor is it an absolute void … it is neither this world or a...

Spiny Norman wrote: ↑Sun Jan 17, 2021 6:46 pm …

the rice exists when unconditioned


most find this difficult to accept


they expected the rice to disappear

Spiny Norman wrote: ↑Sun Jan 17, 2021 5:50 pm Sorry, I don't follow. What does the rice represent here?

the cooled rice is unconditioned


the heat was the conditioning

Spiny Norman wrote: ↑Sun Jan 17, 2021 5:36 pm States of mind are conditioned, so logically

like cooled rice is a state of food

Spiny Norman wrote: ↑Sun Jan 17, 2021 4:16 pm The question stands. Is it a thing, a state of mind, or something else?

state of mind and physical element

So what is Nibbana, exactly? It is the Unformed, the Unconditioned, the End, the Truth, the Other Shore, the Subtle, the Everlasting, the Invisible, the Undiversified, Peace, the Deathless, the Blest, Safety, the Wonderful, the Marvellous, Nibbæna, Purity, Freedom, the Island, the Refuge, the Beyon...

skandha wrote: ↑Fri Jan 15, 2021 11:26 pm

cappuccino wrote: ↑Fri Jan 15, 2021 10:51 pm the corresponding realm is Nirvana

After the death of an arahant there is no longer any corresponding, no reference points what so ever.

there is no stress in Nirvana

skandha wrote: ↑Sun Jan 17, 2021 6:04 am …

difficult to understand


but a state without stress does not have to be a lack of existence