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A When teachers always say "Fully enlightened"it leads me to believes there is some sort of partial or temporary enlightenment.
Good point. I don't think you can become enlightened and then, POOF!-- it goes away. I do, however, think there are degrees to getting there. Some people may be on that cusp of "close but no banana."
Well, if peace means no suffering in life, then while we live that is nigh on impossible. But, if we can succeed in being peaceful with meditation and the peace lingers afterwards, then we do have some success.
Ajahn Chah defined nibbana as the “reality of nongrasping,” putting the emphasis on awakening to how we grasp and hold on even to words like “nibanna” or “Buddhism” or “practice.”
Well, if peace means no suffering in life, then while we live that is nigh on impossible. But, if we can succeed in being peaceful with meditation and the peace lingers afterwards, then we do have some success.
You are wrong my friend. It goes much deeper than you think.
The heart knowing the Dhamma of ultimate ease sees for sure that the khandhas are always stressful. The Dhamma stays as the Dhamma, the khandhas stay as the khandhas, that’s all. ~ Ajahn Mun, The Ballad of Liberation from the Five Khandhas
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still we need to know some things just to get through the day.
*and based on the heart sutra emptiness is form you would also have to say that there was nothing else than attaining
Ah well, remind me why we are here again?
Is it the man with the clipboard?
The meaning of life?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meaning_of_life
The birds have vanished into the sky,
and now the last cloud drains away.
We sit together, the mountain and me,
until only the mountain remains.
from Endless River: Li Po and Tu Fu: A Friendship in Poetry,
putting the emphasis on awakening to how we grasp and hold on even to words
like “nibanna” or “Buddhism” or “practice.” You are wrong my friend. It goes much deeper than you think.
The heart knowing the Dhamma
of ultimate ease
sees for sure that the khandhas
are always stressful.
The Dhamma stays as the Dhamma,
the khandhas stay as the khandhas, that’s all.
~ Ajahn Mun, The Ballad of Liberation
from the Five Khandhas