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Nibbana is not viññāṇa. Really


Nibbana is not viññāṇa. Really, it just isn't. - Sujato's Blog

Viññāṇa is in fact used very commonly in the sense, not of 'separative consciousness', but of 'infinite consciousness'.

Nibbana is still not Viññāṇa | Sujato's Blog - WordPress.com

Nibbana is still not Viññāṇa ... Thanks to Sylvester for raising some more issues regarding the 'non-manifest consciousness.' In this follow-up ...

A Consciousness outside the Bundles? - Q & A - SuttaCentral

Nibbana is not viññāṇa. Really, it just isn't. Nibbana is still not Viññāṇa · Nibbana remains not Vinnana. 6 Likes. Nimal August 29, 2016, 5 ...

What do you think about Ven Thanissaro's view on Nibbāna?

They are translated variously, as 'consciousness that is without feature / signless / invisible / non-manifesting / makes no showing / can not ...

Nibbāna is not a dhamma

Nibbāna does not disintegrate, thus it is not a dhamma. The term (dhamma) has wide range of meanings. In most general sense it is a phenomenon ...

Can somebody explain why Nibbana is not just the same or similar ...

To clarify - I know that it is explicitlly stated in the suttas that Nibanna is not just nothingness, and that you don't go anywhere.

Is Nibbana a state of mind or an element (dhamma)?

Nibbana is asankhata dhatu (unconditioned element or unconditioned dhamma) therefore it is not a state of mind (MN 115).

Help for responding to people who say: Buddha never said there's ...

-Bhikkhu Sujato, comment to Nibbana is not vinnana. Really, it just isn't. The Buddha was so very very emphatic that the end of dependent ...

Viññāṇa Anidassana - Bhikkhu Sunyo - Wisdom & Wonders

No sutta equates nibbāna to any type of consciousness. · Many suttas do the exactly opposite: they relate nibbāna to the cessation of consciousness,2 and equate ...

Nirvana (Buddhism) - Wikipedia

In Mahayana these are called "abiding" and "non-abiding nirvana." Nirvana, as the quenching of the burning mind, is the highest aim of the Theravada tradition.

Nibbāna - Is It Difficult To Understand? - Pure Dhamma

Thus, anidassana viññāna means “viññāna cannot be seen.” See “Anidassana Viññāṇa – What It Really Means.” The forefathers of Mahāyāna Buddhism could not grasp ...

Nirvana is not a consciousness : r/Buddhism - Reddit

Viññāṇa non-manifest Infinite, radiant all-round There water and earth fire, air do not find a footing There does long and short Small, gross, ...

Does the not-Self (anattā) teaching in the Nikāyas presuppose the ...

In his internet-only essay, Nibbāna is not viññāṇa. Really, it just isn't, Bhik- khu Sujato criticizes the view which sees the infinite ...

Nibbana - Dhamma Wiki

But that which is called "mind" (citta) or "mentality" (mano) or "consciousness" (viññāṇa) that self is permanent, stable, eternal, not subject ...

Vijñāna - Wikipedia

discernment (Hinduism & Buddhism); understanding, knowledge (Hinduism); consciousness, mind, life force (Buddhism) · विज्ञान (vijñāna) · विञ्ञाण (viññāṇa) · ဝိညာဉ် (MLCTS: ...

Nibbāna "Exists", But Not In This World - Pure Dhamma

Nibbāna exists, but it is not possible to describe it using our terminology. It needs to be experienced in stages by cleansing one's mind gradually.

Does Nibbana as the unconditioned and deathless phenomenon ...

Phenomena comes and goes. · Nibbana isn't phenomenal ergo there's no such thing as a deathless-phenomenon. · There's empirical science and, ...

Difference in attainments - Page 8 - Dharma Wheel

Really, it just isn't. Nibbana remains not Vinnana · Nibbana is still not Viññāṇa ... Your mistaken evaluation of nirvana as nirodha samapatti ultimately ...

Nibbāna: The Goal of Buddhist Practice

It is very important (and very difficult!) to understand that the “experience” of nibbāna is no experience at all! Ajahn Brahmali here argues the other side of ...

The State of Nibbana | Buddhist Teachings

It is a state arrived at directly with the abandonment of defilements, like sliding back a screen and seeing the sky. Nibbāna has no properties similar to ...