In Mahayana Buddhism, is it necessary that you can achieve samadhi during meditation to experience nirvana?
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In Mahayana Buddhism, is it necessary that you can achieve samadhi during meditation to experience nirvana?
Buddhism is gay. If the goal is dissolution and there's nothing beyond then whats the point of their practice? If all of this is an illusion, and nothing exists and... so how can they claim they are enlightened, everything here is illusion, so no getting enlightenment through creation itself, oh, but theres no creator, no nothing beyond this illusion also, so no getting knowledge from a superior source
Buddhism is a waste of time. And it was already defeated thousands of years ago. But people still waste their time with it
Stick to a religion thats actually religion. Not atheism for fricking hippies
Well that’s one way to declare your surface level knowledge
Anatman, anicca, shunyata
What do i need to know? Its just nihilism. Spiritual suicide. Illusion
Better to follow an actual theistic religion
>nihilism
Nihilism is a wrong view. You have a mediocre understanding of shunyata, you are a moron.
How buddhist of you
So at least you can't teach by example
Whatever you might know about precept
The point is, i've studied it. And its a waste of time
They don't accept the immortality of the soul, God, or an afterlife. So there's nothing to progress to by their own doctrine. Just undefined, impersonal peace or silence
Better follow the path of unflinching unmotivated devotion to the ultimate reality the Supreme Godhead
But why don't you try next time to defend your doctrine? Without personal attacks, please. Just logic and argument. Explain why creation comes from nothing and goes to nothing... but still we have to work for final dissolution, and how can we get enlightened on this phenomenical world of illusion, through the world of illusion itself, if there's nothing (i mean nothingness) beyond. If this is all illusion come from nothing, and beyond that there is nothing, and no higher causal power... except mind, because mind somehow creates... but that doesnt mean theres a higher power wah wah, its all ilusion, your own mind puts itself in illusion, but it also doesnt real wah wah
This is all nonsense. Incoherent mess with no internal logic
But we are wasting time here. Shankara already defeated you thousands of years ago
Nothing is immortal. Show me a single immortal thing.
I would call Buddhism necrophilic rather than nihilistic
> If the goal is dissolution and there's nothing beyond then whats the point of their practice
Getting to nirvana is an option. As is chasing your own tail in samsara.
>If the goal is dissolution and there's nothing beyond then whats the point of their practice
pure ignorance.
you are dissolving into the emptiness or great void.
the equivalent abrahamcuck vocabulary would be - dissolving into the ineffable, becoming one with God (union), returning back to the Father.
frick off unnuanced barbaric ape!
Insulting other religions is not very Buddhist.
No.
Technically, yes. There are multiple samadhi's in Mahayana. They are held to be realized by multiple practices. A bodhisattva will achieve multiple samadhis through the 10 bhumi's. Some may be realized through a meta-practice like in Soto Zen or Shin Buddhism. The Mahāvyutpatti lists 118 different samādhis that are specified by name in the prajñāpāramitā sūtras. Some of the Pure Land traditions, the Chinese and Jodo Shu, seek to achieve the Amida Samadhi. Silent Illumination in Chan/Zen/Thien is an example as well. Some of the Pure Land traditions do focus on recitation only or as perquisite of the above samadhi though. Often these samadhis are meant to be a set up for other practices though. Pic is not a beginner friendly book but describes how this is understood.
Thanks bro.
Samadhi is apparently one half of enlightenment it basically means concentration but also memory. For example past lives were the last thing buddha remembered before enlightenment. When you meditate you recall things you forgot and they teach you important lessons in perspective
Yes, why do you ask if that can be skipped? During meditation is not it, it has to be your normal state of being.
Introspection is the enemy of happiness
No need to overcomplicate it.
I'd suck on the pussy and lick the toes.