Nirvana and Samsara Are the Same Thing - Sounds True
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Nirvana and Samsara Are the Same Thing - Sounds True
The apparent paradox of nirvana haunts all religious conceptions of eternity. Absolute fullness is inseparable from absolute emptiness and absolute presence is inseparable from absolute absence. My argument is that we should reject the idea that such a state of being is a goal worth striving for.
As a path toward liberation, intellectual acknowledgment of impermanence must become integrated with embodied experience; then we can gain more support for giving up grasping at those things we cannot hold, whether that means our own bodies or those of people we love, or our roles, or our prestige.
insight is any way of looking that releases craving.
I finally discovered the only reliable liberation from suffering: not trying to get rid of the problem.