2007-05-07 06:32:03 · 9 answers · asked by mick rogers 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The effects of Samsara ( World of Suffering ) is the equal and opposite of the effects of Nirvana. ( Liberation from Suffering)
Buddhists believe that Life is Suffering, ie. Unhappy events lead to sufferings, Happy Events too lead to Suffering when the event ends or we are seperated from the source of that Happiness like a spouse, a friend or a relative.
From the view of some Buddhist schools, being able to be free from that attachment and craving to that which is fleetingly happy, and cutting away or purifying all causes of suffering is to gain Liberation from Suffering... that is where one can experience pain but yet not suffer.
2007-05-07 06:43:21 · answer #1 · answered by Tiara 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i'm a pupil of Buddhism, inspite of the incontrovertible fact that i won't be able to call myself a real Buddhist. i think in case you're gonna communicate the communicate you gotta walk the walk. The christians taught me that. As for having a seperate class, i'm not so valuable. the international is schizmatic enuf because it is. possibly we could study from one yet another. Be it stable or undesirable, know-how is what i think we are here for. inspite of the incontrovertible fact that, can Buddhism additionally be called a "faith" consistent with say? it form of feels the extra I study the extra i glance at it as the thank you to attain enlightenment via existence residing experiencing evrything.
2016-10-15 00:33:18 · answer #2 · answered by bhuwan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That would actually be living. Buddhism states that people are (basically) reincarnated over and over again untill they reach a point of understanding of our oneness with everything and nothing. Nirvana is a blissful release from this cycle of pain and struggle, and a merger of the soul with everything (thus becomming itself nothing in the face of eternity). The opposite is the limited conciousness attained from merely living in the small, singular world, i.e. living.
It's a fundamentally different view of reality, that it is only an illusion that we are seperate from one another and everything, and Nirvana is attaining conciouness high enough to realize that all is one, and then upon death you merge with that one, that you were never really apart from anyway.
2007-05-07 06:41:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
The opposite is the dependently co-arisen world / phenomena.
Nirvaana is the only numinon.
If it's unsatisfactory, it's not Nirvaana.
It's worth remembering there're levels to suffering. Even the most exquisite type (of conditioned, dependently co-arisen states) is still 'suffering'.
Samsaara.
Nirvaana is the correct 'way out' (Nissarana) of Samsaara.
2007-05-07 16:08:48 · answer #4 · answered by goodfella 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Samsara.
2007-05-09 02:34:41 · answer #5 · answered by shrill alarmist, I'm sure 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, Nirvana is the absence of attachment. You can have an infinite number of attachments, there is no upper limit...
2007-05-07 06:43:22 · answer #6 · answered by Shinkirou Hasukage 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Buddhist thought isn't dualistic, so no, there is no opposite.
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2007-05-07 06:47:17 · answer #7 · answered by vinslave 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no. it's not like yin and yang. just suffering and the path
2007-05-07 06:38:05 · answer #8 · answered by izaboe 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
samsara. world of illusion filled with lust and desire.
2007-05-07 06:37:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋