nirvana
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Summary
In these texts, nirvana is the Universe itself without the order we impose on it; it does not hide behind daily life but is just our daily life. In the chapter Shoji, Dogen writes that only life-and-death itself is nirvana, so there is nothing to hate or aspire to.
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Nirvana means the Universe itself without the order that we impose on it.
Ikka-no-myoju 2: Undivided Reality Summer 2006 — Ikka-no-myoju
Texts
- Ikka-no-myoju 2: Undivided Reality ●●● Summer 2006 — Ikka-no-myojudaily life as the universe itself · samsara and nirvana
the daily round, our daily life, with pin numbers and bank accounts, is the same thing as the Universe
- Shoji ●●● Shobogenzoliving-and-dying as nirvana
When we understand that only life-and-death itself is nirvāṇa, there is nothing to hate as life and death and nothing to aspire to as nirvāṇa
- Bendōwa ●●● Shobogenzoliving-and-dying as nirvana
we should realize that living-and-dying is just nirvāṇa
- How To Pursue the Truth ●●● Shobogenzo · Bendōwaliving-and-dying as nirvana
nirvana exists right here in the middle of our living-and-dying
- MMK 5: Relinquishing All Views ●●● Summer 2008 — Nagarjuna’s Mulamadhyamakakarikanirvana as a present state
making it into a real state that real people have in the present rather than some mythical place you go to
- Civilisation as a Shared Trance ●●● July 2021 — Skalní faranirvana as daily life
and nirvana, which is the place where there are no words, no concepts, no beliefs, no society, no civilisation, are the same
- Maha Prajna Paramita Hrdaya Sutra ●●●the other shore
Gone, gone, gone to the other shore, gone united to the other shore; hail to perfect wisdom
- Maka-hannya-haramitsu ●●● Shobogenzothe other shore
which literally means “to have arrived at the opposite shore,” that is, to have accomplished the truth
- Nagarjuna’s Mulamadhyamakakarika ●●● January 1996 — Gudo Wafu Nishijimanirvana as daily life
he wrote about nirvana, and he said, Nirvana is just our daily life
- No Hierarchy of Enlightenment ●●● July 2009 — Dibbavanaconveyor belt to eternal bliss
then we join a kind of conveyor belt, moving upwards to eternal bliss
- The Sutra of the Heart of the Great Practice of Zazen ●●●the other shore
Gone, gone, gone over into the oneness of the other side
Keywords
Ideas (4) living-and-dying as nirvana3 nirvana as daily life2 nirvana as a present state samsara and nirvana
Themes (1) daily life as the universe itself
Images and stories (2) the other shore3 conveyor belt to eternal bliss