practical answers please! no mythology...
2006-08-09 05:20:39 · 5 answers · asked by polestar 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Sure, ever tried cocaine? What do you think makes people addicted to it. Its like attaining Nirvana.
2006-08-09 05:27:44 · answer #1 · answered by ash_m_79 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, prety simple in theory, difficult in practice. The idea is that the mind is constanly distracted from the now by worries about the future, and regrets about the past. So, idea is to stop mind. Basically by practicing meditation, (no meditation is not a end in itself but a practice) we learn to make mind work for us instead of us being led where it wants to go. When we can corrall our mind, we can keep it focused on the present. Which is basically samadhi, complete and total absorption into the moment. When you are so totally focused on the now, five minutes from now is not important and five minutes ago is gone. There is so much life and beauty in the subtlety of right now that is missed simply by not being able to recognize it because your mind was somewhere else. Realizing the beauty and living in communion with life AS IT HAPPENS, is the most basic form of nirvana.
2006-08-09 12:28:08 · answer #2 · answered by The James 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Moksha (Freedom or Salvation)
Moksha means freedom from the cycle of birth and death. The ultimate goal of life is to attain freedom from the cycle of birth and death, or union with God. This union is achieved through true knowledge (jnana), devotion (bhakti), or right work (karma). Purity, self-control, truthfulness, non-violence, and compassion toward all forms of life are the necessary prerequisites for any spiritual path in Hinduism. There is no concept of Savior. You have to free yourself by your own effort. No savior can help you achieve God realization without your personal effort.
The Buddha in the Dhammapada says of Nirvana that it is "the highest happiness". It is necessary to note that "the highest happiness" spoken of by Buddha is not the transitory, sense-based happiness of everyday life, but rather an enduring, transcendental happiness integral to the calmness attained through enlightenment.
Nirvana is,the abiding of a fully enlightened being in pure unobstructed awareness of reality as-it-is. It is accompanied by and synonymous with a state of spiritual awakening (Enlightenment). The Buddha describes the abiding in nirvana as a state of 'deathlessness' (Pali: amata or amaravati) and the "unconditioned" and as the highest spiritual attainment, the natural result that accrues to one who lives a life of virtuous conduct in accordance with Dharma.
So while you can get Nirvana in your life time itself, Moksha which is freedom from rebirth and death cycle is acheived after death only.
2006-08-09 12:37:22 · answer #3 · answered by rian30 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
mostly by collecting good karma. we get good karma through good actions, bad karma through bad actions. obviously, its very hard to get only good karma, so that is why there is the cycle of reincarnation, samsara, that continues until we have enough good karma to break it and obtain salvation.
you would also need knowledge, devotion to god/supreme creator and to use meditation.
2006-08-09 12:24:47 · answer #4 · answered by moonshine 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
be free of toxins.. meditate often...
free your mind of guilt, implantations of others who propagate you into crap of all the worlds...
cut out the noise in your life...
and most of all...
patience, no urges to rush yourself.
he who has patience knows peace.
2006-08-09 12:52:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋