NEW232Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Passaddhi, Mpu Prapanca, Theravada
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Nirvana is a (cid:498)space(cid:499) which is free of suffering (nt3) and how you get to it is through nt4. He often defined nirvana in a negative way - by what it wasn(cid:495)t. he taught that this state is neither. Nothing is sufficient to present authentic, durable happiness (greatest sex, love, food, etc) Finding happiness in the external world (craving) is the problem. The buddha felt that the limits of language and human understanding prevented a clear definition. existence -- because that which can be said to exist is limited in time and space -- nor non- existence. Basis for nirvana: realization of non-self, anatta, emptiness, usually through meditation. Nirvana in theravada buddhism describes 2 types of nirvana. The first describes a living enlightened being, an arhat, who is still conscious of pleasure and pain but is no longer bound to them. The second type is parinibbana, which is final or complete nibbana that is entered at death.
