cappuccino wrote: ↑Sat Oct 20, 2018 10:55 pm Nirvana is said to be everlasting
that's not eternal ism
eternal ism is about constancy of identity
(identity is inconstant)
everlasting
/ɛvəˈlɑːstɪŋ/Submit
adjective
1.
lasting forever or a very long time.
eternal
/ɪˈtəːn(ə)l,iːˈtəːn(ə)l/Submit
adjective
1.
lasting or existing forever; without end.
forever
/fəˈrɛvə/Submit
adverb
1.
for all future time; for always.
"she would love him forever"
2.
continually.
Now i am not Pali learned but i know a little bit about the terminology used to describe the qualities of the referent;lasting
/ˈlɑːstɪŋ/Submit
adjective
enduring or able to endure over a long period of time.
dhuvam - stable or constant
appavatta - non-continuing, non-persisting
akālika - timeless / beyond time /not-timeThere, monks, I say there is surely no coming, no going, no persisting[/color], no passing away, no rebirth. It is quite without support, unmoving, without an object,—just this is the end of suffering.”
https://suttacentral.net/en/ud8.1
“Bhikkhu, there is no form … no feeling … no perception … no volitional formations … no consciousness that is permanent, stable, eternal, not subject to change, and that will remain the same just like eternity itself.”
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“Therefore … Seeing thus … He understands: ‘… there is no more for this state of being.’”
The other, having no residue for the future,
Is that wherein all modes of being utterly cease.