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To: Matchett-PI

Nirvana is not salvation it is just a POV. In reality there is nothing to be “saved” from. It is ignorance of that that the practitioner is seeking to realize. Nirvana is not even considered the ultimate realization in Buddhism.


161 posted on 07/01/2008 11:15:42 AM PDT by TigersEye (Berlin '36 Olympics for murdering regimes Beijing '08)
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To: TigersEye
"Nirvana is not salvation it is just a POV."

Just a point of view? REALLY??? :)

"In reality there is nothing to be “saved” from. It is ignorance of that that the practitioner is seeking to realize."

So the "practitioner" is seeking to save himself from the ignorance of the ignorance that people need to be saved. I get it. :)

"Nirvana is not even considered the ultimate realization in Buddhism."

You mean there's something greater than saving oneself from ignorance of ignorance? I can understand why people would want to spend their various re-births working their way to that goal. :)

212 posted on 07/01/2008 3:58:03 PM PDT by Matchett-PI ("It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." - Voltaire)
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