This is a serious question. Where exactly is Nirvana?

Question

I have looked in the Atlas at the libray here in Petitville, and also searched on googlyearth, but cannot find it. I wish to move there soonish.

Answer 1

Actually, I think there is a place in Michigan called Nirvana, in Lake County.

Try Yahoo! maps.

Answer 2

Nirvana: Buddhist term for self-realization.
http://www.welcomenepal.com/new/aboutnepal_religion_deities.asp

Nirvana is originally a Buddhist concept, but it has been included in the Hindu belief system.

“Nirvana is: The deathless; the cessation of all suffering. The very opposite of the Wheel of Birth and Death; it is what those in the Buddhist tradition aspire to experience. The Absolute, which transcends designation and mundane characterization.”
http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/Nirvana/id/74679

The Hindu belief in reincarnation says that a creature is brought back to life in another form after every death. If you lived a good life then you come back in as an elevated life form (higher on the Wheel of Birth and Death). If you lived a bad live then you are reincarnated in a lower form like and insect. Where you have to work off your Karmic burden (similar to sins). If you work off your entire karmic burden then you become enlightened and a truly enlightened being will be accepted in Nirvana after their death. Of course then you will cease to exist and become one with the cosmos.

For me Nirvana is more a state of mind than an actual place.

Answer 3

Here's something from Buddhanet.net:

"Most people have heard of nirvana. It has become equated with a sort of eastern version of heaven. Actually, nirvana simply means cessation. It is the cessation of passion, aggression and ignorance; the cessation of the struggle to prove our existence to the world, to survive. We don't have to struggle to survive after all. We have already survived. We survive now; the struggle was just an extra complication that we added to our lives because we had lost our confidence in the way things are. We no longer need to manipulate things as they are into things as we would like them to be."

Answer 4

Nirvana was a band in the early 90' there is to city called Nirvana

Answer 5

Where ever you find it :)

Nirvana:
Buddhism. The ineffable ultimate in which one has attained disinterested wisdom and compassion.
Hinduism. Emancipation from ignorance and the extinction of all attachment.
An ideal condition of rest, harmony, stability, or joy.
[Sanskrit nirvāṇam, a blowing out, extinction, nirvana : nis-, nir-, out, away + vāti, it blows.]

Answer 6

Nirvāna (from the Sanskrit निर्वाण, Pali: Nibbāna -- Chinese: 涅槃; Pinyin: niè pán), literally "extinction" and/or "extinguishing", is the culmination of the pursuit of liberation (moksha) in Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, & Jainism. It denotes a condition of Being devoid of passions such as lust, anger or craving and is thus a state of great inner peace and contentment. Nirvana is the abiding of a fully enlightened being (see terms Arhat and Buddha) in a state of pure awareness. It is accompanied by and synonymous with a state of spiritual knowledge known in India as Brahma - Vidya (literally 'knowledge of God') or in Buddhism (disinclined to theistic formulations) as Awakening (more popularly, Enlightenment). The Buddha describes the abiding in nirvana as a state of 'deathlessness' (Pali: amata or amaravati) and as the highest spiritual attainment can be understood as analogous to the 'eternal life' spoken of by Jesus as the reward for one who lives a life of virtuous conduct (However, it must be said, the Christian heaven is one of 'beatific vision' of a personal God face-to-face; nirvana one of 'annihilation' of ignorance and suffering in the face of the impersonal). It is spoken of in several Hindu tantric texts as well as the Bhagavad Gita.

Answer 7

Nirvana is a state of enlightenment, not a place.

Answer 8

It is inside you, you just need to do self introspection, self soul search and have faith in God.....then you will automatically reach the stage of Nirvana (Moksha)

Answer 9

At the end of the journey on the Path to Enlightenment. You get to stay dead, no more incarnations.

Answer 10

Just east of heaven, southeast of valhalla, and west of the happy hunting grounds.