Parinirvana without remainder
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Parinirvana without remainder
What´s the difference between parinirvana without remainder between hinayana and dzogchen? Conceptually speaking.
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It's the same as the with/without remainder breakdown in Mahayana. Basically, the differentiation between arhats and buddhas.jhanapeacock wrote: ↑Sun Jan 14, 2018 11:10 pm What´s the difference between parinirvana without remainder between hinayana and dzogchen? Conceptually speaking.
There is a good section on this in A Guide to the Words of My Perfect Teacher.
"All phenomena of samsara depend on the mind, so when the essence of mind is purified, samsara is purified. Since the phenomena of nirvana depend on the pristine consciousness of vidyā, because one remains in the immediacy of vidyā, buddhahood arises on its own. All critical points are summarized with those two." - Longchenpa
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You supposedly attain something called rainbow body in dzogchen. In "hinayana" there's no such thing except for permanent cessation.
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The difference is that the hinayāna nirvana without remainders is a faux nirvana, it is merely a samādhi of cessation after an arhat dies. The nirvana without remainder in Atiyoga is rainbow body where there are no remaining contaminated aggregates.jhanapeacock wrote: ↑Sun Jan 14, 2018 11:10 pm What´s the difference between parinirvana without remainder between hinayana and dzogchen? Conceptually speaking.
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Arhats have contaminated aggregates?Malcolm wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2018 8:42 pmThe difference is that the hinayāna nirvana without remainders is a faux nirvana, it is merely a samādhi of cessation after an arhat dies. The nirvana without remainder in Atiyoga is rainbow body where there are no remaining contaminated aggregates.jhanapeacock wrote: ↑Sun Jan 14, 2018 11:10 pm What´s the difference between parinirvana without remainder between hinayana and dzogchen? Conceptually speaking.
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https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/ques ... arinirvanaWhat the Buddha experienced at 35 was called sa-upādisesa-nibbāna - nirvana with remainder. What he experienced at 80 was called anupādisesa-nibbāna - nirvana without remainder:
“dvemā, bhikkhave, nibbānadhātuyo. katame dve? saupādisesā ca nibbānadhātu, anupādisesā ca nibbānadhātu.
There are these two, monks, elements of nibbāna. What two? The element of nibbāna with remainder and the element of nibbāna without remainder.
-- Iti. 44
The difference is that after the former, there is still sequences of physical and mental formations that continue as a consequence of the birth of the being and have to work themselves out, which they do at the latter, signifying an end to all such physical and mental formations.
The actual experience of nirvana during the former (which can last from a few moments up to seven days) and the latter (which, due to there being no remaining sequence of formations and no craving to create new ones, is permanent) is the same.
https://suttacentral.net/en/iti4444. The Nibbāna-element
This was said by the Lord…
“Bhikkhus, there are these two Nibbāna-elements. What are the two? The Nibbāna-element with residue left and the Nibbāna-element with no residue left.
“What, bhikkhus, is the Nibbāna-element with residue left? Here a bhikkhu is an arahant, one whose taints are destroyed, the holy life fulfilled, who has done what had to be done, laid down the burden, attained the goal, destroyed the fetters of being, completely released through final knowledge. However, his five sense faculties remain unimpaired, by which he still experiences what is agreeable and disagreeable and feels pleasure and pain. It is the extinction of attachment, hate, and delusion in him that is called the Nibbāna-element with residue left.
“Now what, bhikkhus, is the Nibbāna-element with no residue left? Here a bhikkhu is an arahant … completely released through final knowledge. For him, here in this very life, all that is experienced, not being delighted in, will be extinguished. That, bhikkhus, is called the Nibbāna-element with no residue left.
“These, bhikkhus, are the two Nibbāna-elements.”
These two Nibbāna-elements were made known
By the Seeing One, stable and unattached:
One is the element seen here and now
With residue, but with the cord of being destroyed;
The other, having no residue for the future,
Is that wherein all modes of being utterly cease.
Having understood the unconditioned state,
Released in mind with the cord of being destroyed,
They have attained to the Dhamma-essence.
Delighting in the destruction (of craving),
Those stable ones have abandoned all being.
https://suttacentral.net/en/mil3.5.103.5.10. Is the Buddha real?
The king said: ‘Is there such a person as the Buddha, Nāgasena?’
‘Yes.’
‘Can he then, Nāgasena, be pointed out as being here or there?’
‘The Blessed One, O king, has passed away by that kind of passing away in which nothing remains which could tend to the formation of another
individual. It is not possible to point out the Blessed One as being here or there.’
‘Give me an illustration.’
‘Now what do you think, O king? When there is a great body of fire blazing, is it possible to point out any one flame that has gone out, that it is here or there?’
‘No, Sir. That flame has ceased, it has vanished.’
‘Just so, great king, has the Blessed One passed away by that kind of passing away in which no root remains for the formation of another individual. The Blessed One has come to an end, and it cannot be pointed out of him, that he is here or there. But in the body of his doctrine he can, O king, be pointed out. For the doctrine was preached by the Blessed One?’
‘Very good, Nāgasena!’
The Outward Form Of Nirvāṇa
https://suttacentral.net/en/mil6.3.10
The Time Of Nirvana
https://suttacentral.net/en/mil6.3.11
The Place Of Nirvana
https://suttacentral.net/en/mil6.3.12
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Ricky wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2018 9:13 pmArhats have contaminated aggregates?Malcolm wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2018 8:42 pmThe difference is that the hinayāna nirvana without remainders is a faux nirvana, it is merely a samādhi of cessation after an arhat dies. The nirvana without remainder in Atiyoga is rainbow body where there are no remaining contaminated aggregates.jhanapeacock wrote: ↑Sun Jan 14, 2018 11:10 pm What´s the difference between parinirvana without remainder between hinayana and dzogchen? Conceptually speaking.
They do not have contaminated aggregates, but they have nonafflictive obscurations, and are required to enter the bodhisattva path in order to achieve buddhahood, according to Mahāyāna sources.
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Gotcha.Malcolm wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2018 12:16 am
They do not have contaminated aggregates, but they have nonafflictive obscurations, and are required to enter the bodhisattva path in order to achieve buddhahood, according to Mahāyāna sources.
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The mechanics is the same for both where is there is a common object (nirvana) to be abide in, it is a diseased state, but the buddha can choose to abide in it as a personal choice, just as the four states of meditative absorption, including the absorptions of the formless, are optional to buddhism, but the awaken ones can choose to exercise them, and may exit the state at any time. This disease of cessation has no impact on the buddha but it is a disease of the arahants who assume the state as the final stage of wholesomeness (true happiness).jhanapeacock wrote: ↑Sun Jan 14, 2018 11:10 pm What´s the difference between parinirvana without remainder between hinayana and dzogchen? Conceptually speaking.
According to my post in 2011 in talk.religion.buddhism:
> When the illusion and vanity of self is experienced, niroda (nirvana) is an
> inevitable direction, not an object of desire / volitional impulse.
This lead to what the perfect-awareness sutra called the disease of cessation.
"The fourth is disease of cessation, if there is a person, saying: 'I now forever terminate all afflictions', since the body-mind is emptied of existence, how much more is the skandas and illusory phenomena? Striving toward cessation of all phenomena due to the desire for perfect-awareness, since the nature of the perfect-awareness, is not the form of cessation, thus said it is named as disease".
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The rainbow body is what the buddha get when abiding in the intelligence/jnana and not on the base (nirvana). It is termed the nonabiding nirvana, or nirvana with reminder:
"“What, bhikkhus, is the Nibbāna-element with residue left? Here a bhikkhu is an arahant, one whose taints are destroyed, the holy life fulfilled, who has done what had to be done, laid down the burden, attained the goal, destroyed the fetters of being, completely released through final knowledge. However, his five sense faculties remain unimpaired, by which he still experiences what is agreeable and disagreeable and feels pleasure and pain. It is the extinction of attachment, hate, and delusion in him that is called the Nibbāna-element with residue left." (44. The Nibbāna-element)
Basically, the rainbow body is received after death of the physical body, because the function of mind/jnana is not absorb into the absolute nature (nirvana), thus it has to continue to function, and the rainbow body is manifestation aspect of this mind/jnana.
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This is completely wrong.Jyoti wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2018 12:08 pm
Basically, the rainbow body is received after death of the physical body, because the function of mind/jnana is not absorb into the absolute nature (nirvana), thus it has to continue to function, and the rainbow body is manifestation aspect of this mind/jnana.
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Why is it wrong, sir?Malcolm wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2018 5:19 pmThis is completely wrong.Jyoti wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2018 12:08 pm
Basically, the rainbow body is received after death of the physical body, because the function of mind/jnana is not absorb into the absolute nature (nirvana), thus it has to continue to function, and the rainbow body is manifestation aspect of this mind/jnana.
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Where is the popcorn eating emoji when you need one?
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There ya go.
“You don’t know it. You just know about it. That is not the same thing.”
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche to me.
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche to me.
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Because Jyoti's view is completely dualistic.jhanapeacock wrote: ↑Wed Jan 17, 2018 3:31 amWhy is it wrong, sir?Malcolm wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2018 5:19 pmThis is completely wrong.Jyoti wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2018 12:08 pm
Basically, the rainbow body is received after death of the physical body, because the function of mind/jnana is not absorb into the absolute nature (nirvana), thus it has to continue to function, and the rainbow body is manifestation aspect of this mind/jnana.