If everyone and everything achieved nirvana?

Question

Buddhist, If everyone and everything achieved nirvana, what will happen then?

Please don't put down the religion because of this question. It's asked to strengthen the faith.

Answer 1

Flowers will grow

Answer 2

Meditation is basically honing our attention. By directing our attention inward, into the deep space of consciousness, contemplatives have attained nirvana or become bodhisattvas. I think it therefore depends on the degree of autism, schizophrenia or mental disturbance. I've worked and advised such people and their families for several years. Buddhist would say that autistics, schizophrenics etc are suffering a mental affliction and are delusional, but in a different way to delusion of 'normal' people. You'd need to help the individual understand their delusion, which is the ignorance keeping them from following the path of nirvana or bodhisattvas. Of course, this presupposes they have the mental capacity, as I said, it depends on the extent of their condition. Once they begin to understand their delusion, they would they need to then understand that our 'reality' is also delusion. But for the schizophrenics I've known, this is what they say anyway. But be compassionate, remain helpful and don't give up hope. I have an autistic friend who eventually got a Ph.D and became a concert pianist. He is now happily married with three children. And remember, we don't simply have this life. What we don't achieve on our path to nirvana or at least reducing our mental afflictions in this life, we can continue trying in our next. For some additional assistance see: 'Mind in the Balance' and 'Genuine Happiness', both by Alan Wallace.

Answer 3

Considering that the very nature of the state is one which cannot be explained or described, I don't think thats answerable until we get there.

But my raw guess would be world peace at the very least. The state of Enlightenment arises from a supreme will of compassion for others; to attain Enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings. Since everyone will then be putting everyone else before themselves, it will be a very productive community. My 2 cents...

And faith has nothing to do with Buddhism, Buddha said never take anything he said on faith, but analyze and internalize it and compare it to your experiences to see if it makes sense.

Answer 4

The sensation of not achieving Nirvana is an illusion. Nirvana is an illusion. When everything is seen as "empty" or lacking distinction from everything else, Nirvana is there right in front of you, ecstatically expressing itself. Nothing then needs to be done, as everything is as it should be.

Answer 5

This article of mine explains Nirvana
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The Lake of Fire
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The Lake of Fire is the end of all reprobates (Rev. 20:14).

It is also referred to as the *Second Death.*

It is a death in an absolute sense - an eternal |living death|


Once one is thrown into the Lake of Fire, the pain goes to *infinity* strictly.

This is not agony or torment in the conventional sense, but one's entire consciousness of *sense,* *intellect,* and *feeling* turns to pure eternal white noise.

Now white noise, in electrical engineering is that "shhhhhhhhhhhhh" that you hear on an FM radio when it is not tuned into anything.

It is the "snow" on the TV when it is not tuned into any particular station.


Now that is what one's entire consciousness and being become in the Lake of fire - as there is no longer a distinction between self and other, mind and other, or between past, present, or future.

It is a state of complete and utter *idiocy.*

It is pure |consciousness without content| that is the goal of the Eastern mystics|

All in all, the Lake of Fire is |Nirvana.|


Jim McCrea
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Answer 6

you should ask the people who worship rastafarianism they always claimed to achieve nirvana after smoking there symbolic dobies

Answer 7

Believe me, you're better off trying to make the most of your current life. Everything else is uncertain.

Answer 8

Nothing, nirvana is samsara, only the perspective of the awakened is different.

Answer 9

That will make everything unreal or a hallucination or something like that. Or all will be caught as if in a dream.

Answer 10

to me buddhism is more of a philosophy than faith.
Buddha claimed to have never found the truth
a false sense of peace can't match the real thing