In Hinduism and Buddhism, nirvana is thehighest state that someone can attain, a state of enlightenment, meaning a person's individual desires and suffering go away. This belief emphasizes meditation and how much it helps achieve this state. “Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves i...
Buddhists who achieve nirvana with the help of a buddha guide become arhats, people who are enlightened but not omniscient. While nirvana is possible for any person, in most Buddhist sects only monks attempt to achieve it. Lay Buddhists -- Buddhists outside the monastic community -- strive ...
While nirvana is possible for any person, in most Buddhist sects only monks attempt to achieve it. Lay Buddhists -- Buddhists outside the monastic community -- strive instead for a higher existence in their next life. They follow the Noble Eightfold Path and help others, trying to accumulate...
Let me be very clear if I haven’t been so far. Meditation is a core practice in Buddhism. You can read all the scriptures in the Pali Canon, but if you don’t meditate you are not a Buddhist. You will learn about Buddhism from reading and videos, but unless you are meditating you...
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absorption (T4), which mostly result from concentration training (FA, related to T2) and self-inquiry and insight (OM, related to T3). All the first four transformations contribute to achieving self-pattern flexibility (T5), which is a prerequisite to achieve self-liberation (T6). However, ...
Buddhism preaches that by detachment from ego and its cravings and being aware of the processes of mind and ego, the aggregates vanish and what remains is a higher level of consciousness free of all mental processes and worldly miseries. Nirvana is said to be one such state of a higher ...
Both Taoism and Buddhism have meditation as a core concept. Laozi (Lao Tzu) said to “Empty yourself of everything, let your mind become still.”, and Buddha teaching that a clear mind was essential for acquiring nirvana. Finding a quiet place to meditate can help you to gain more clarity...
While many agree that the US-China relationship needs to be recalibrated and reset, they differ especially over how to achieve such recalibration and change. One part of the US foreign policy community believes that the US-China competition can be managed differently, with the help of America’...
LORD or YHVH? Jesus or Yeshua? Sunday or Sabbath? Church or Synagogue? Gentile or Israel? Clean or Unclean? Law or Grace? 2000 years after the Messiah, wherever we live, whether it's Sri Lanka or any other part of the world, all of us require to learn ho