I was reading this, recommend by a friend: http://www.religionfacts.com/buddhism/beliefs/afterlife.htm
If he doesn't know isn't that like the blind leading the blind to a salvation unknown?
2006-10-18 04:40:31 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Why hid it if he knows, think about it. Wouldn't that be more of a motivation to reach Nirvana if you know what it look like. Jesus tell you actually what heaven looks like. He says He is waiting for his followers with banquet & celebration all ready. He mention we will rule with Him & be by the Father side forever. So imagine buddha is your friend no.1 & Jesus is friend no.2 & after all those talk which would trust more? Food for thought, Truly Curious.
2006-10-18 05:02:14 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How would you describe the true nature of Yahweh? "All-loving" is words. How do you explain what it is to be all loving? Can you communicate the actual feeling of universal love? How do you use words to make people feel the love God has for all things? How can you explain the concept of infinity? The human mind can work with it but a true experience of infinity is beyond the ability of the mind to hold.
Same difference. Besides, Nirvana isn't salvation. It's an end of a journey. It's not a reward or washing away of error, its the final detachment from the karmic cycle.
2006-10-18 04:44:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Describe sour or describe sweet to a person who has never tasted them?
Better yet, try describing yellow to a blind man or the song of a bird to a def person?
You can’t do it. There are no common points of reference.
How do you describe Nirvana to someone that has no point of reference. It truly is like trying to explain the color yellow to a blind man.
To try and explain nirvana to someone who has not experienced it would be a futile experience. Nirvana is Nirvana, just as yellow is yellow.
2006-10-20 05:18:35 · answer #3 · answered by mehereintheeast 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Technically, being able to label Nirvana as 'incomprehensible' is his way of knowing it. It can be likened to 'knowing' why you love someone, you know what you feel for them, but perhaps not why, how much, when it happened, if it fluctuates. But you know that the feeling is there, even if it cannot be semantically expressed. The iniritability of Nirvana on a 'reality' plane that we are in applies to everyone. I would say he does know, but there are no words for it.
2006-10-18 04:46:55 · answer #4 · answered by Meollo de la vida 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Incomprehensible and indescribable are words that generally mean something is beyond the scope of the human mind. To be honest, I wouldn't really want to go to any sort of paradise I could comprehend with this mind now...
2006-10-18 04:43:06 · answer #5 · answered by angk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nirvana is an experience that transcends human intellect; it is a state of pure emotional bliss that can never truly be put into words. Each person experiences this feeling in their own way.
2006-10-18 04:46:58 · answer #6 · answered by silverleaf90210 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The idea is that Nirvana is beyond words. Some Buddhist have argued that our propensity to name everything instead of recognizing oneness and interconnectivity is one of the impediments to achieving enlightenment. He gives the way to reach that state. What the state itself is will be apparent once you get there.
2006-10-18 04:44:38 · answer #7 · answered by Love Shepherd 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Saying something is indescribable is not the same as saying the person doesn't know the answer.
2006-10-18 04:42:54 · answer #8 · answered by dansweaza 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nirvana is the ultimate state of nothingness. It is the easiest way to describe it.
2006-10-18 04:42:10 · answer #9 · answered by zelo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
close your eyes... what do you see?
nirvana is the blowing out of the candle... whhoooooshhh!!!
nothing.
the ending of all desires... even hope
by definition nirvana is NOT enjoyment
in Buddism desires are seen as the sourse of all strife...
in the Bible desires are neutral and one can desire darkness or desire light and will choose according to ones strongest desires and inclinations of the heart
God is most honored however when he is most enjoyed.
Salvation is when God changes the desires so one loves, treasure truth and is changed by it and the glory of God and the desires of man meet wonderfull now and ultimately then in heaven where the glory of God and the desire of man are perfectly fullfilled
2006-10-18 04:47:05 · answer #10 · answered by whirlingmerc 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋