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thepea wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 5:12 pm Death Star philosophy, I can dig it!
Could be a computer generation in this matrix.

Be careful about drawing conclusions

this song is about the soul…

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Spiny Norman wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 4:27 pm Nibbana isn't a place you go to, like heaven.

You have difficulty imagining the goal

thepea wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 4:30 pm Interesting……how so?

https://youtu.be/laXhTcko-lg

Ceisiwr wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 3:56 pm devoid of notions of permanence or self or substances.

Yet everyone ignores what permanence really means


Permanence means you are the same person you always were


The truth as I said is that you aren’t

thepea wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 2:18 pm Isn’t the goal eternity?

What is not permanent is not worth striving for.

Sri Ramana Maharshi

Eternity isn't used to describe nibbāna in the suttas, 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 Is...

confusedlayman wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 3:27 pm I am jobless

Clean?

auto wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 3:40 pm In order to not be an annihilationist is the option where

The cessation of stress is very specific


Only stress ceases

thepea wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 2:27 pm Any significance or meh?

The moon is artificial

Ceisiwr wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 3:23 pm Part of the argument for the existence of an atta

I’m not arguing for self


I’m merely saying no self is just as misguided

Spiny Norman wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 3:19 pm No. Eternalism is the idea of an eternal soul or essence.

Sorry that’s your self view talking

Ceisiwr wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 3:01 pm because Eternalism is the view of a substance which always exist.

Eternalism is being the same person you were in high school


And continuing to be that same person


Rather than being a very different person

Ceisiwr wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 3:01 pm You rely on yourself to realise there never really was a self to begin with.

But where does Buddha say exactly that