Which type of Nibbana is the most important?

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Which type of Nibbana is the most important?

Nibbana-element with residue left
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Nibbana-element with no residue left
5
71%
 
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Which type of Nibbana is the most important?

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Which type of Nibbana is the most important?

Please discuss. :smile:
This was said by the Lord...

Bhikkhus, there are these two Nibbana-elements. What are the two? The Nibbana-element with residue left and the Nibbana-element with no residue left.

What, bhikkhus, is the Nibbana-element with residue left? Here a bhikkhu is an arahant, one whose taints are destroyed, the holy life fulfilled, who has done what had to be done, laid down the burden, attained the goal, destroyed the fetters of being, completely released through final knowledge. However, his five sense faculties remain unimpaired, by which he still experiences what is agreeable and disagreeable and feels pleasure and pain. It is the extinction of attachment, hate, and delusion in him that is called the Nibbana-element with residue left.

Now what, bhikkhus, is the Nibbana-element with no residue left? Here a bhikkhu is an arahant... completely released through final knowledge. For him, here in this very life, all that is experienced, not being delighted in, will be extinguished. That, bhikkhus, is called the Nibbana-element with no residue left.

These, bhikkhus, are the two Nibbana-elements.

These two Nibbana-elements were made known
By the Seeing One, stable and unattached:
One is the element seen here and now
With residue, but with the cord of being destroyed;
The other, having no residue for the future,
Is that wherein all modes of being utterly cease.

Having understood the unconditioned state,
Released in mind with the cord of being destroyed,
They have attained to the Dhamma-essence.
Delighting in the destruction (of craving),
Those stable ones have abandoned all being.

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I voted Nibbana with no residue left.
I don't like my back pain.
Having said that, irrespective of my back pain, I like to help some people with my attainment before my Parinibana.
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Neither, since an arahant, having extinguished attachment, hatred and delusion, wouldn't be attracted or averse to either. So no more or less important.
And for worldlings, as long as you didn't reach Nibbana, it doesn't matter either.
Dry up what pertains to the past,
do not take up anything to come later.
If you will not grasp in the middle,
you will live at peace.
—Snp.5.11,v.1099 (tr. Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi)

Whatever is will be was. —Ven. Ñānamoli, A Thinkers Notebook, §221
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Ruud wrote: Thu Jun 14, 2018 8:27 am Neither, since an arahant, having extinguished attachment, hatred and delusion, wouldn't be attracted or averse to either. So no more or less important.
And for worldlings, as long as you didn't reach Nibbana, it doesn't matter either.
Seems like the only logical answer to the question.
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Ruud wrote: Thu Jun 14, 2018 8:27 am Neither, since an arahant, having extinguished attachment, hatred and delusion, wouldn't be attracted or averse to either.
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Nābhinandāmi maraṇaṃ,
nābhinandāmi jīvitaṃ;
Kālañca paṭikaṅkhāmi,
nibbisaṃ bhatako yathā.

I don’t long for death;
I don’t long for life;
I await my time,
Like a worker waiting for their wages.

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I cannot even visualuze nibbana. If I will attain nibbana I do not wish to have residues.
But I contemplate on at least a sotapanna , to be qualified.
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I cannot even visualuze nibbana. If I will attain nibbana I do not wish to have residues.
But I contemplate on at least to be a sotapanna , to be qualified.
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Where is the option for "equally important"? :smile:
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seeker242 wrote: Thu Jun 14, 2018 11:03 am Where is the option for "equally important"? :smile:
Another option might take the spark, reflection &/or conviction out of the discussion. :smile:
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justindesilva wrote: Thu Jun 14, 2018 10:57 am I cannot even visualuze nibbana. If I will attain nibbana I do not wish to have residues.
But I contemplate on at least a sotapanna , to be qualified.
Of course, you can't, it is not visualizable.
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Saengnapha wrote: Thu Jun 14, 2018 12:02 pm
justindesilva wrote: Thu Jun 14, 2018 10:57 am I cannot even visualuze nibbana. If I will attain nibbana I do not wish to have residues.
But I contemplate on at least a sotapanna , to be qualified.
Of course, you can't, it is not visualizable.
I think he meant 'envisage' - 'contemplate as a possibility' 🙃
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there's not two types of nibbāna.
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Neither of them are important.
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Dhammarakkhito wrote: Thu Jun 14, 2018 6:41 pm there's not two types of nibbāna.
So what does the quote below mean if there is not two Nibbana elements?
This was said by the Lord...

Bhikkhus, there are these two Nibbana-elements. What are the two? The Nibbana-element with residue left and the Nibbana-element with no residue left.
There is always an official executioner. If you try to take his place, It is like trying to be a master carpenter and cutting wood. If you try to cut wood like a master carpenter, you will only hurt your hand.

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pitakele wrote: Thu Jun 14, 2018 1:01 pm
Saengnapha wrote: Thu Jun 14, 2018 12:02 pm
justindesilva wrote: Thu Jun 14, 2018 10:57 am I cannot even visualuze nibbana. If I will attain nibbana I do not wish to have residues.
But I contemplate on at least a sotapanna , to be qualified.
Of course, you can't, it is not visualizable.
I think he meant 'envisage' - 'contemplate as a possibility' 🙃
You mean 'fantacize'?
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