The word nirvana points to the state of a fire that has gone out. The Buddha often described our present world as a house on fire, and living beings as burning up with passions. To achieve the goal of Buddhist practice meant to "cool down" and put out these flames of suffering. However, later Buddhist thinkers such as the composers of a t
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The lotus flower is also symbolically prized in Buddhism because it blossoms in a muddy swamp, thereby signifying the emergence of our Buddha nature from the “swamp” of everyday desires and problems.
Greg Martin • The Buddha in Your Mirror: Practical Buddhism and the Search for Self
Vajrayana (Buddhist Tantra) began in India, and most of its main developments happened there. There is no historical doubt about this; see for instance The Origins of Yoga and Tantra .
Vajrayana is not Tibetan Buddhism (and vice versa) | Vividness
This is the state of a Buddha.
Charlotte J. Beck • Everyday Zen: Love and Work (Plus)
What Mollier reveals in the second half of the first millennium is a feverish traffic between the Daoists and the Buddhists of mutual appropriations, falsifications, denials, excisions of telltale signs or ‘cut and paste’, and reformatting in the competitive environment of court and society. Thus, an apocryphal sutra has the Buddha preach that life
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