Thursday, 8 November 2018

I suppose there is nobody adept enough around here who can explain Huineng's statements to me

It is for these people, the victims of ignorance, who identify the union of five skandhas as the 'self', and regard all other things as 'not-self'; who crave for individual existence and have an aversion to death; who drift about in the whirlpool of life and death without realizing the hollowness of mundane existence, which is only a dream or an illusion; who commit themselves to unnecessary suffering by binding themselves to the wheel of re-birth; who mistake the state of everlasting joy of Nirvana for a mode of suffering, and who are always after sensual pleasure; it is for these people that the compassionate Buddha preached the real bliss of Nirvana.

Huineng

who identify the union of five skandhas as the 'self'

What are the five skandhas that are regarded as the self by victims of ignorance

who drift about in the whirlpool of life and death without realizing the hollowness of mundane existence, which is only a dream or an illusion;

What is the meaning of this statement in detail

real bliss of Nirvana

What is Nirvana



Submitted November 09, 2018 at 12:07AM by ZaoPing https://ift.tt/2RIFT8N

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