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12 questions linked to/from Difference between aggregates and clinging-aggregates?
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is cessation of perception and felling the Nibbana?
Furthermore, take a good person who, going totally beyond the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception, enters and remains in the cessation of perception and feeling. And, having seen with ...
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Parinibbāna in secular Buddhism
I take it that an important claim of secular Buddhism is that the Buddha never actually taught literal rebirth.
What happens during parinibbāna according to secular Buddhism? How is it different from ...
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How do the concepts of anatta, rebirth and karma coexist together?
Although I have read quite a lot of books about Buddhism, almost all of them were meant for the Western layman so I consider myself to be a beginner compared to most of you here. I hope you can ...
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What is the "Unconditioned" that the Buddha is talking about? And vinjana in Buddhsm
In advaita vedanta, consciousness is the self. Consciousness has 2 modes: it can be pure consciousness, and it is described as "being aware of being aware" or the "I that I am knows that I am"; while ...
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When would a Buddhist want to attach?
I understand that Buddhism is meant to end sufferings. The Buddhists welcome everything and don't clinging when it's gone. They don't necessary cut existing attachments (knowledge, relationships), but ...
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Difference between the Scientific Law of Causality and the Buddhist Law of Conditionality
What is the difference between the scientific law of causality and the Buddhist law of conditionality (Paṭiccasamuppāda)? I am not convinced with the way Ven. Bikkhu Bodhi, for example, has drawn the ...
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What is difference between Nibbana and asaṅkhataṃ (unconditioned)?
Buddha says Nibbana is ajātaṃ abhūtaṃ akataṃ asaṅkhataṃ. Out of all these four, only asaṅkhataṃ (unconditioned) is something that I have to achieve.
So can I say asaṅkhataṃ is Nibbana and vice versa?
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How to interpret "cessation"?
Throughout the suttas, we find the following stock passage:
"Now from the remainderless fading & cessation of that very ignorance comes the cessation of fabrications. From the cessation of ...
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How buddha came back to his human consciousness if consciousness and fabrication ceases after release
QN 1: After complete cessation of consciousness, how did the Buddha come back to human consciousness?
If he can come back, isn't it not a complete release?
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The Final Moment of the Buddha's Realization
“Siddhartha Gotama sat for one last time under the pipul tree with the adiṭṭhāna that he would not get up till he became realized. He battled the beautiful as well as the ugly and fearful illusions of ...
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Is nirvana a mere conscious experience, and if so of what kind?
What is nirvana if it is not just a beatific consciousness free from suffering in all meanings? I want to move away from that and the idea of the perfections (both seem slightly off).
So there is ...
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The World and Five Aggregates of Clinging
As I've heard, the "world" referred by Buddha (mentioned in the Loka Sutta and in Samyutta Nikaya - 4 -> LokaSamudaya Sutta) is the same as "Five Aggregates of Clinging" (Five-Updana-Skandas).
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