Comment by IntransigentErudite on 27/02/2025 at 21:53 UTC

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View submission: Is nirvana a permanent state?

My god dude, we are all already awakened, if we weren't it would not be something one could realize. Practice is awakening as dogen pointed out. The natural state is awakening.

Pursuing nirvana is delusion as its exactly where you are.

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Comment by redsparks2025 at 27/02/2025 at 22:43 UTC

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To be truly awaken is to know that no-one knows what lays beyond death, not even Siddhartha Gautama (aka the Buddha), who was just a human after all. Every religion without exception is there to give comfort to our very human fears of the unknown and of death. Some just tell a more believable story than others.

Siddhartha mixed his story with an early form of psychology as he came to understood that duhkha arises in the mind and gave down to earth practices such as meditation that did not asked too much from his followers. Those that came after him engaged in overthinking, drawn to the siren song of metaphysics, which Siddhartha warned against in his Parable of the Poison Arrow.

Sorry but I am not buying what you are selling.