Stillness or Blankness?

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whitewedding
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Re: Stillness or Blankness?

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Sorry - I don't want to start putting doubt into peoples minds or anything - People do apparently reach Nibbana by doing the vipassana on the sensations of the breath - I just don't think it's the technique the Buddha used (but his techniques no more important - if 2 techniques both lead to Nibbana than each is as good as the other I guess).

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Re: Stillness or Blankness?

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sorry steve,
I shall point you to this part of your post also
whitewedding wrote:(when you hit Jhana - which is beyond me).
you have negated direct experience a few times in that post yet speak as though it is from direct experience, hence my question.

can you support what you say with any citations? after reading a post of yours in another thread it does raise doubts as to how you interpreted the texts.
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