Timeline for Is nirvana a conceptual construction?
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| Aug 18, 2020 at 14:49 | comment | added | ruben2020♦ | @satirical_buddhist The sentient being that attains Nirvana has found a stable source of happiness - the only stable source of happiness there is. | |
| Aug 18, 2020 at 14:48 | comment | added | user2512 | confusing. so the sentient being that undergoes nirvana is what is happy? | |
| Aug 18, 2020 at 14:42 | comment | added | ruben2020♦ | @satirical_buddhist Rocks do not have feeling, perception, consciousness and mental formations. Plants do have feeling and maybe perception, but they do not have consciousness and mental formations. Only beings with all five aggregates who experience mental suffering, can attain Nirvana. | |
| Aug 18, 2020 at 14:41 | comment | added | user2512 | so are rocks happy? | |
| Aug 18, 2020 at 14:40 | comment | added | ruben2020♦ | @satirical_buddhist Nirvana is translated here as "extinguishment". That should give you a hint. It extinguishes everything that can make you unhappy, suffer or feel dissatisfied. | |
| Aug 18, 2020 at 14:38 | comment | added | user2512 | but i can easily conceive of happiness without feelig. that is pretty standard religion / morality i think. not sure about happiness without a happy thing | |
| Aug 18, 2020 at 14:35 | history | edited | ruben2020♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 18, 2020 at 14:35 | comment | added | user2512 | i'm unconvinced that answers my question. which was not about happiness without feeling, but happiness wthout anything being happy | |
| Aug 18, 2020 at 14:33 | comment | added | ruben2020♦ | @satirical_buddhist If you read that answer, it quotes AN 9.34: Ven: Sariputta: “Reverends, extinguishment (Nibbana) is bliss! Ven. Udayi: “But Reverend Sāriputta, what’s blissful about it, since nothing is felt?” Ven. Sariputta: “The fact that nothing is felt is precisely what’s blissful about it." | |
| Aug 18, 2020 at 14:31 | comment | added | user2512 | of what though? | |
| Aug 18, 2020 at 14:29 | comment | added | ruben2020♦ | @satirical_buddhist It's simply the complete absence of dukkha (suffering / discontent). | |
| Aug 18, 2020 at 14:26 | comment | added | user2512 | is that what conceptual construction means then -- a mere idea of empirical reality? | |
| Aug 18, 2020 at 14:24 | history | answered | ruben2020♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |