Is the Deathless already here?

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Ngawang Drolma.
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Re: Is the Deathless already here?

Post by Ngawang Drolma. »

Nathan,

What excellent advice. Without the awareness in each and every moment of the karma and its fruit we create, how are we ever to end the cycle?

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Re: Is the Deathless already here?

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Hi Craig,

You effort in trying to pin down nibbana based on time and space is not meaningful. It is beyond anything the human mind has words to describe exept to say that it is not this thing that we know as existence. It is not any other form of existence that we imagine to be either. To put it simply everything that arises in the 6 sense doors in suffering, so this has nothing to do with any of that. -it is also not annahilation either. Clearly we cannot think of a state which doesnt fall into this - it simply doesnt compute in the human brain- it is acinteyya- we are unable to grasp this state. Sufficient it is to know, all we know as suffering will be at an end.
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