It is a mode of being that is free from mind-contaminants such as lust, anger or craving. It is thus a state where all passions and emotions are stilled – the end of suffering. The Buddha says of Nirvana that it is "the highest happiness". This is not the sense-based happiness of everyday life, nor the concept of happiness as interpreted by Western culture, but rather an enduring, transcendental happiness integral to the calmness attained through enlightenment.
The Buddha describes the abiding in Nirvana as 'deathlessness' or 'the unconditioned' and as the highest spiritual attainment, the natural result that accrues to one who lives a life of virtuous conduct in accordance with Dharma. Such a life dissolves the causes for future becoming that otherwise keep beings forever wandering through realms of desire and form.
idk wut hand of god is like but i do believe i know wut nirvana is like for i like to practice buddhism reguarlly along with meditation and let me tell u when i did content i felt so happy u have no clue i could of literally cried from the joy i was seeing so if thats wut u desire try that but if its just empty happiness u seek which is the definiton of nirvana i go by then i dont kno maybe they will make one
RobDose wrote:Nirvana is almost unreachable... i think only a hand-ful of budhist monks was able to reach it....
true but you are able to leave nirvana(if it truly exists) because some people belive the dahli lama is the reincarnation of buddha himself and as we all kno buddha obtained nirvana
420kid wrote:
true but you are able to leave nirvana(if it truly exists) because some people belive the dahli lama is the reincarnation of buddha himself and as we all kno buddha obtained nirvana
yeah, but another monk spent 10 years of his life meditating trying to reach nirvana, with a diet of apples and water, and didn't reach it... i don't think nirvana is for people like you and me...
thats also tru but if u truly believe in nirvana then u must believe in reincarnation which means maybe in our next lives we shall obtain it while this life is simply for doing stuff like idosing lol so sumtime thru out our life cycles i shall meet u in nirvana. so until then keep on keeping on
hey we wre talking about nirvana in on our own personal terms and unless uve actually reached nirvana i think we have as much room to speak about how it may work just as much as u or anybody else does
try content, tranquil, chakra, or serene. They are nowhere close to true nirvana but ad some meditation and mantras and youll get some inner tranquility.
