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**Dilangos** · 01-15-2012, 10:50 AM

What I see nirvana as would be a world free from suffering, everything is completely still, your thoughts and emotions flow by like liquids. But that would be my idea of an afterlife too, but I think if there wasn't an afterlife, if you just die once you're enlightened and that's it. What if you die and that is nirvana in itself, still, nothingness, free from suffering?

Death isn't nirvana. When you are enlightened you do not cease to perceive or feel. When you die you cease to perceive or feel. What is the use of this state?

Nirvana on the other hand is complete cessation of all kinds of mental suffering. Nirvana is peaceful living. Death is when you cease to live. The two cannot possibly be compared.

01-15-2012, 10:50 AM	#4
Dilangos Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 464 Senior Member	What I see nirvana as would be a world free from suffering, everything is completely still, your thoughts and emotions flow by like liquids. But that would be my idea of an afterlife too, but I think if there wasn't an afterlife, if you just die once you're enlightened and that's it. What if you die and that is nirvana in itself, still, nothingness, free from suffering? Death isn't nirvana. When you are enlightened you do not cease to perceive or feel. When you die you cease to perceive or feel. What is the use of this state? Nirvana on the other hand is complete cessation of all kinds of mental suffering. Nirvana is peaceful living. Death is when you cease to live. The two cannot possibly be compared.
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