No my friend, you are wrong on all your assumptions. I'm sorry if I'm not expressing myself clearly.mjaviem wrote: ↑Tue Mar 08, 2022 2:18 pm Oh, I see, you don't believe liberation can be achieved in this very lifetime. You don't think the cycle of births happens in the present. You think this topic is a matter of intelligence rather than own understanding. You think the Buddha teaching is about a stream of consciousness, a storage of impressions and dispositions, a gandhabba, relinking consciousness. It is fair enough as well as it is fair to believe the Buddha teaching is not about literal rebirth but ending suffering right here and now.
I believe that Nibbana can be achieved in this lifetime and I'm actively practicing the Noble Eightfold path.
Also I believe the cycle of births happens in the present as well as throughout Samsra.
However I'm not limiting Nibbana to something I can achieve only in this lifetime, I'm following the path as best I can, I believe I will attain it when I'm ready, may be in this lifetime, may be in another lifetime.
I don't think this topic is a matter of intelligence but I believe in own understanding through Sīla, Samādhi, Pannā.
I don't understand what you mean by:
I believe that the Buddha's teaching is about ending suffering right here and now, in the present moment.You think the Buddha teaching is about a stream of consciousness, a storage of impressions and dispositions, a gandhabba, relinking consciousness.
But I also have the Right View to know that it is not only about present moment or present life.
I can try to achieve NIbbana in present moment, but it is also possible that I may have to go through millions of lifetimes before I gain enough Kusala karma, a type of energy as I believe.