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What is someone meaning when they talk about "killing buddhas?" I don't think it means to literally kill Buddhists. I vaguely think it's meant to prevent cult of personality or something like that. How close or far is my presumption?
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Jul 8, 2013 02:47
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Let's talk nirvana. No, not the grunge band. Is it cessation of the Samsaric wheel and slipping peacefully into a void of nothingness, never to return in rebirth? Is it transcending existence and non/existence and reaching a sublimely higher plane? The readings in my graduate comparative religion course seem to present both as viable outcomes but this seems like a good place to find clarity.
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Oct 15, 2013 05:55
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Perhaps I should have said another plane of existence/non-existence. Higher plane usually refers to beyond the mundane or the beyond plane that you, me and everybody else is on. If anybody else has read 'em, we are reading Philip Novak and Huston Smith for this course.
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Oct 16, 2013 05:48
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ObamaCaresHugSquad posted:You die, and the world remains. That happens in the end, regardless of whether or not I seek enlightenment. Or do you mean ego death through seeking enlightenment?
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Oct 24, 2013 18:33
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I get what you're trying to say OCHS about it being a personal experience. I didn't mean offense by asking. Perhaps I framed my question too narrowly... But do you see what I was going for? ex, it's shoddy and reductionist to express the Christian concepts of heaven and hell into "place where you hang out with angels, dead relatives and God" and "That place with fire and the devil" respectively. But it also serves a purpose of simplification to convey the concepts with broad strokes for non-observant people.
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Oct 24, 2013 23:07
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