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The Lanka’s Nirvana
As a quick reference, the abridged version of the Lankavatara Sutra as found in the Buddhist Bible, Chapter XIII, offers a general overview of the Lanka’s take on Nirvana. Our Study will offer here a more extensive treatment as covered … Continue reading
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Tagged Four kinds of Nirvana, icchantika, itaretara, manovijñāna, MEANING, nirvana, Samadhi Mayopama, samsara, Tozen
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Nirvana: Early Foundations
The early formulations of Nirvana hinges upon primary ideations of what constitutes life after death. Materialists would not even consider notions of what happens to the corporeal frame after the life cycle ended. For them all life simply ceases to … Continue reading
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Tagged Absolute Quiescence, eternalists, nirvana, samadhi, samāpatti, Yoga
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Coming in November: Nirvana
Nirvana is more often than not misconstrued within Buddhist circles. It is merely discernable as “marking the end of rebirth by stilling the fires that keep the process of rebirth going.” This has much to do with the early Prakrit … Continue reading
The foreverness of Zen
Nothing in this life is Zen. Not your assumed birth, nor an inevitable cessation of your present biological matrix. One´s dreams, desires, ideas, and imaginations are not Zen. Faith in Zen, or the dharma, is not Zen. This world, or … Continue reading
Posted in Spirituality, Tozen Teaching, Zen
Tagged Death, Mind-only, nirvana, rebirth, True Nature, Zen
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Like an Ethereal Flower
[* It needs to be stated at the outset that the Sagathakam as translated by Suzuki oftentimes just stated “Chapter/Verse”, in which the reader was forced to go back into the main text to discover the full verses. What follows … Continue reading
The Desecration of Nirvana
“Once again, Śāriputra, on the basis of the view that there is decrease, these beings further entertain three types of views. These three types of views and that view that there is decrease are inseparable, like [the threads of] a … Continue reading
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Tagged annihilation, extinction, indifference threshold, nihilism, nirvana, Right View
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The mind of 84,000 hooks.
This is the sole gospel of Mara, the Evil One, so pay careful attention; Within each seed granted your self, there is a promise of a beautiful flower. One of completeness and bliss or even vengeance and destruction. In the … Continue reading
The Tathagata’s Womb
Carl Van Brunt (Hakeda) CHAPTER TWO The Correction of Evil Attachments I.THE BIASED VIEWS HELD BY ORDINARY MEN There are five kinds of biased views held by ordinary men that may be discussed. Hearing that it is explained in the sutra that … Continue reading
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Tagged BIASED, Hīnayānists, nirvana, Suchness, tathagata-garbha, understanding, VIEWS
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The Hidden Jewel
“O Bhagavat! We have always thought we had attained complete nirvana. We now realize that we were ignorant. Why is this? We should have attained the wisdom of the Tathāgatas. Yet we were satisfied with little wisdom! “O Bhagavat! Suppose … Continue reading
The Prodigal Sons
The thing that strikes me most about the parable in Chapter 4, the “‘Buddhist’ Prodigal Son”, is that it is told to the Buddha (instead of vice-versa) by four of his most loyal disciples, Subhuti, Maha Katyayana, MahaMaudgalyayana and particularly … Continue reading
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Tagged dust, loneliness, Mahākāśyapa, nirvana, prodigal, Tathagata
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