What is it exactly? Have you ever experienced it...or know of anyone that has?
2007-07-28 14:18:38 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
"Some waves on the ocean are high and some are low. Waves appear to be born and to die. But if we look more deeply, we see that the waves, although coming and going, are also water, which is always there. Notions like high and low, birth and death can be applied to waves, but water is free of such distinctions. Enlightenment for a wave is the moment the wave realizes that it is water. At that moment, all fear of death disappears. If you practice deeply, you will realize that you are free from birth and death, free from many of the dangers that have been assaulting you. When you see that, you will have no trouble building a boat that can carry you across the waves of birth and death. Smiling, you will understand that you do not have to abandon this world in order to be free. You will know that nirvana, the Kingdom of Heaven, is available here and now."
-Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha Living Christ
Peace to you.
2007-07-28 14:27:03 · answer #1 · answered by dreamed1 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I will try again to answer this q. The last one went missing in cyberspace... Nirvana is not outside your ablilities. It is all the small moments of peace and love we feel and the stringing together of those moments . It does not matter if you are religious or are not religious. If someone says 'you are that', without explanation you would think the answer is for the chosen few. Nirvana exists in everyone of us.
2007-07-28 21:58:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nirvana is the cessation of suffering, or pure awareness of truth. I think I may have experienced it ever so briefly at birth, and now my practice is to once again uncover it.
2007-07-28 21:22:29 · answer #3 · answered by MarkS 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is like the highest level of being. And no, I would have to be a buddhist for like 545154 years to achieve it. I'm wiccan, so I dont think I will even be able to.
2007-07-28 21:21:37 · answer #4 · answered by Kim 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Terrible weird band of the 90's. They were stinkarooni!!!
2007-07-28 21:23:06 · answer #5 · answered by tebone0315 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i thought nirvana was a really lame, annoying, and over-rated band
2007-07-28 21:22:05 · answer #6 · answered by spike missing debra m 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i think of it as total peace:)
yes, i have been there before and it was very nice
2007-07-28 21:35:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
great band
i didnt get to see them tho b4 cobain died
i dont think it was a suicide
i think courtney had him killed
2007-07-28 21:21:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋