Moksha Vs. Nirvana

xena · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 6:48 am Post subject:

someone interject.
passify
Shut me up as in NOW

though all good really-yeah

Aupmanyav · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 7:54 am Post subject:

Aupmanyav · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 8:06 am Post subject:

Moloth · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 8:48 am Post subject:

kinda like Yahweh... in the OT, he was flame-spitting, revenging, smiting, genocidal maniac... in the NT, he's a bit more cuddly (and distant and impersonal).
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xena · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 10:02 am Post subject:

Aupmanyav · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 10:40 am Post subject:

xena · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 10:44 am Post subject:

Oh sand grains
Lovely
They produce pearls.

Which dissolve unexpectedly after years of growth.

by what?

What acid is your toxin?

Aupmanyav · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:29 pm Post subject:

Wickedtruth · Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 1:22 am Post subject:

Wickedtruth · Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 2:47 pm Post subject:

Although, the Bhagavad Gita does hint that the non-dual path is a little harder.

12:5 Those who make the Unmanifested their primary goal make the path more difficult for themselves. Arduous for embodied beings is that path.

12:3, 4 Those, however, who aspire to the indestructible, the indescribable, the unmanifested, the All-Pervading, the incomprehensible, the immutable above all vibration, who have subjugated the senses, are even-minded, and devote themselves to the well-being of all--verily, they too, attain me.

Wickedtruth · Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 6:58 pm Post subject:

Anyway, back on topic..lets see if I can find something on Buddhism Nirvana vs Moksha...

"Buddha came at a time when the people had come to depend on Vedic rituals to the point where they expected divine favors by merely repeating rituals and word formulae, without any self effort devoted to personal purificiation for self-transformation. Their belief might be might be classified as mere superstition. Buddha did not speak against the vedas as such: He spoke against people's excessive dependence on their outward practices."

"Because Buddha refrained from speaking of God, but rather tried to impress on people's minds their need to make personal effort to purify themselves, his followers soon fell into the fallacy of atheism. True, God doesn't really have a human form: he is pure, absolute bliss--infinite-eternal, and ever-concious, as Shankaracharya later claimed. Shankara wanted to persuade people that the forms in which they had clothed God were purely for their own devotional upliftment: They were not literal realities."

"The nirvana of official Buddhism, according to an official document published some years ago in Thailand, is that the bliss of which Shankara spoke lasts only a moment, and is replaced immediatley by eternal nothingness. Could anyone sincerely strive to attain nothingness? Surely, when the moment arrives for the choice to be faced--whether to embrace a complete void, or to await a later "oppertunity"---the ego will pull back in fear, electing to rather be a"bodhisattwa" indefinitely, out of "pure compassion" for mankind. Compassion, maybe, but it seems natural to prefer this compassion to becoming nothing!"

Phew..that is it a lot of typing...I'm going to stop now.

Aupmanyav · Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 9:09 pm Post subject:

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