In your view, understanding, Parinibbana is:

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In your view, understanding, Parinibbana is:

not applicable, there is no rebirth, it is annihilation for all
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2%
no more becoming, non-existence as we know it but not annihilation since there is no self
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38%
existence in a buddha-field / realm
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5%
pantheism
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5%
citta continues in paranibbana
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11%
a subtle existence that is ineffable, inexpressible
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17%
don't know or agnostic about it, set-aside for now
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22%
 
Total votes: 187

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User13866 wrote: Fri Feb 24, 2023 1:39 am What are you trying to help with?
Some do not have right view about nirvana


They say it is annihilation
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I’m just suggesting right view about the goal
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cappuccino, I see you as having Right View. The issue is how you phrase the Buddha's language to the Audience He phrased it for.

For example, perscription medicines have to be taken as the medicine doctor prescribes, and I want you to know there are still many who are weary of that directive.
That sage who has perfect insight,
at the summit of spiritual perfection:
that’s who I call a brahmin.

-Dhammapada.
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One is mahayanavāda the other is :shrug: , like Batman & Robin, here to save the theravadins.
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I think this is the hardest vote I've ever read.
If the question is "nibbāno", I can answer,
"The destruction of greed, hatred, and delusion
(without residue, down to the roots)."

Can't answer, too difficult.
Gwi: "There are only-two Sakaṽādins:
Theraṽādå&Ṽibhajjaṽādå, the rest are
nonsakaṽādins!"
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That which is dukkha has ceased and gone to its end. Cannot really make an accurate statement about it other than that since it is beyond space and time. It is the peace that surpasses understanding.
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