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Re: Unconditioned

Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2016 6:43 am
by Ben
cappuccino wrote:I think we can conclude Nirvana is a state, an aferlife as well.

All we call self is inconstant.
Please provide textual support for your assertion that "Nirvana" is an afterlife.

Re: Unconditioned

Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2016 6:46 am
by cappuccino
“There is that sphere where there is no earth, no water, no fire nor wind; no sphere of infinity of space, of infinity of consciousness, of nothingness or even of neither-perception-nor non-perception; 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 a dying nor a reappearance; it has no basis, no evolution and no support: this, just this,
is the end of dukkha.”
~ Ud 8.1

Re: Unconditioned

Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2016 6:48 am
by cappuccino
neither this world nor the other world

Nibbāna Sutta: Parinibbana
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .irel.html

Re: Unconditioned

Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2016 7:01 am
by davidbrainerd
Is it not correct to understand the following paragraph in MN 22 as indicating Nirvana is not annihilation?
MN 22 wrote:"Speaking in this way, teaching in this way, I have been erroneously, vainly, falsely, unfactually misrepresented by some brahmans and contemplatives [who say], 'Gotama the contemplative is one who misleads. He declares the annihilation, destruction, extermination of the existing being.' But as I am not that, as I do not say that, so I have been erroneously, vainly, falsely, unfactually misrepresented by those venerable brahmans and contemplatives [who say], 'Gotama the contemplative is one who misleads. He declares the annihilation, destruction, extermination of the existing being.'

Re: Unconditioned

Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2016 7:02 am
by cappuccino
Nirvana is not annihilation. It's selflessness.

Re: Unconditioned

Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2016 7:03 am
by pegembara
"Sensing a feeling of pleasure, he discerns that it is inconstant, not grasped at, not relished. Sensing a feeling of pain... Sensing a feeling of neither-pleasure-nor-pain, he discerns that it is inconstant, not grasped at, not relished. Sensing a feeling of pleasure, he senses it disjoined from it. Sensing a feeling of pain... Sensing a feeling of neither-pleasure-nor-pain, he senses it disjoined from it. When sensing a feeling limited to the body, he discerns that 'I am sensing a feeling limited to the body.' When sensing a feeling limited to life, he discerns that 'I am sensing a feeling limited to life.' He discerns that 'With the break-up of the body, after the termination of life, all that is sensed, not being relished, will grow cold right here.'

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .than.html
Doesn't sound much like an afterlife does it? Nothing gets annihilated since nothing belongs to self.

Re: Unconditioned

Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2016 7:13 am
by Ben
cappuccino wrote:Nirvana is not annihilation. It's selflessness.
Please attribute authorship when quoting, as per the TOS.

Re: Unconditioned

Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2016 7:14 am
by Ben
cappuccino wrote:“There is that sphere where there is no earth, no water, no fire nor wind; no sphere of infinity of space, of infinity of consciousness, of nothingness or even of neither-perception-nor non-perception; 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 a dying nor a reappearance; it has no basis, no evolution and no support: this, just this,
is the end of dukkha.”
~ Ud 8.1
None of what you have provided supports the notion that "Nirvana" is an afterlife.

Re: Unconditioned

Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2016 7:32 am
by tiltbillings
davidbrainerd wrote:
tiltbillings wrote:For the "true self" to experience phenomenal existence, it must be able to have experience, meaning that it much be able see, hear, touch, taste, smell, have thoughts, which then means it must be able to feel, and then must be able recognize what is experienced based upon repeated experience, and it must be able to develop volitional responses to what it experiences, and, of course, underlying all of this is awareness. Without all this, nothing.
Meaning when its linked to the aggregates it experiences what the aggregates experienced because of its clinging to the viññāṇa aggregate.
And you really do not see the problem here.

Re: Unconditioned

Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2016 7:33 am
by tiltbillings
davidbrainerd wrote:
tiltbillings wrote:For the "true self" to experience phenomenal existence, it must be able to have experience, meaning that it much be able see, hear, touch, taste, smell, have thoughts, which then means it must be able to feel, and then must be able recognize what is experienced based upon repeated experience, and it must be able to develop volitional responses to what it experiences, and, of course, underlying all of this is awareness. Without all this, nothing.
Meaning when its linked to the aggregates it experiences what the aggregates experienced because of its clinging to the viññāṇa aggregate.
And you really do not see the problem here.

Re: Unconditioned

Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2016 7:43 am
by cappuccino
Ben wrote:None of what you have provided supports the notion that "Nirvana" is an afterlife.
Parinibbana!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parinirvana

Re: Unconditioned

Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2016 7:47 am
by tiltbillings
cappuccino wrote:
Ben wrote:None of what you have provided supports the notion that "Nirvana" is an afterlife.
Parinibbana!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parinirvana
So, you are saying that the Buddha is still around, hanging out in parinibbana, is that it?

Re: Unconditioned

Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2016 7:51 am
by cappuccino
I don't think Buddha was annihilated.

Re: Unconditioned

Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2016 7:59 am
by tiltbillings
cappuccino wrote:I don't think Buddha was annihilated.
If he not annihilated, the is eternally persisting, is that what you are saying?

Re: Unconditioned

Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2016 8:04 am
by cappuccino
It is the Everlasting
the Refuge, the Beyond.
~ S 43.1-44