Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Level 1 class 10 - The 3rd Noble Truth: Nirvana

1. The goal of cultivation is to pursue our Bodhi minds and the states of Nirvana, and further help other sentient beings to get libration from suffering and achieve their Nirvanas.
2. All kinds of worldly happiness are all impermanent. Nirvana is the true happiness that a Buddhist will make efforts for.
3. The characteristics of Nirvana
- Extinguish: the state of no greed, anger, or ignorance; no suffering
- Bliss: the greatest pleasure that transcend impermanence
- Libration: no fear, getting libration from the fear of the greatest suffering: death
- Transcendence: free from the cycle of life and death
- Tranquility: the true peace and serenity
- Unborn and deathless: vexation will not arise any more; original nature is unborn and deathless

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