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“You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes every day – unless you’re too busy; then you should sit for an hour.” – Zen Proverb
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You worried about death? Don't worry, you will die for sure. Everything is impermanent, incl. nothing. Relax.
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IF YOU USE YOUR MIND TO STUDY REALITY, YOU WON'T UNDERSTAND EITHER YOUR MIND OR REALITY. IF YOU STUDY REALITY WITHOUT USING YOUR MIND, YOU'LL UNDERSTAND BOTH - Bodhidharma
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Daodejing Chapter 42: the origin of the myriad things
The Dao gave birth
To the one.
The one gave birth
To the two.
The two gave birth
To the three.
The three gave birth
To the myriad things.
Carry Yin on their backs,
And embrace Yang in their arms,
To harmonise these two vital forces.
There is nothing people hate more
Than being orphaned,
Abandoned, and destitute.
Yet kings and princes
Call themselves these names.
Less can be more,
More can be less.
What others teach,
I also teach.
The violent do not die
A natural death.
This is the guiding principle
Of my teaching.「道生一，一生二，二生三，三生萬物；萬物負陰而抱陽，沖氣以為和。人之所惡，唯孤寡不穀，而王公以為稱；故物或損之而益，或益之而損；人之所教，我亦教之。強梁者不得其死，吾將以為教父。」
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The 3 (traditional) Buddhist Nibbānas
Three nibbānas (i.e. nirvanas) are mentioned in the Buddhist Theravada canon. Two in Ittivutakasutta (44) and 1 in the Parinibbānasutta.
- Nibbāna 1 (i.e. relative nibbana) is attained in this life. It is either of short duration or life-long. The persona (i.e. an ‘emerged phenomenon’ 1 hence sans ‘inherent existence’, so the Heart Sutra) who attains Nibbāna 1 is one ‘who has exhausted the taints, who has lived out the life, done what was to be done, laid down the burden, reached the highest goal, destroyed the fetters of being, and who is completely liberated through final knowledge. His five sense-faculties remain, owing to the presence of which he still encounters the agreeable and disagreeable, still experiences the pleasant and painful. It is exhaustion of lust, hate, and delusion in him that is called the element of Nibbāna with result of past clinging still left.”
- Nibbāna 2 is attained in this life if and when a persona (i.e. an emerged phenomenan)1 who has lived out the life…. and is completely liberated through final knowledge. All in him that is felt will, since he does not relish it, become cool here in this very life: this is called the element of Nibbāna without result of past clinging left.”
- Nibbāna 2 (absolute nibbana) happens when a person who as achieved Nibbāna 2 dies, becomes wholly extinct (= unborn, since karmic residue and the life drivers have been eliminated), therefore cannot be reborn. Whether or not the ‘emerged phenomenon’ that finally ends in/at Nirvana 3, hence as unborn, can respond to its achievement with bliss is a matter of belief (not fact). Some Buddhists refuse to comment on the parameters, if any, of Nibbāna 3. Others claim that Nirvana 3 is ‘A Land of Bliss’.
Absolute Nibbana happens when a person (i.e. a state of conditions) disintegrates (i.e. dies @ maximum entropy)…. Or is never born! Then absolute coolness, zero temperature happens.
The ‘life’ of a samskara ≈ an ‘emerged phenomenon’ ≈ a persona
1. “Yan kiñci samudayadhamman sabban tan nirodhadhammanti.” = “Whatever arises due to conditions ceases when the conditions (for its arising) cease.”
