Yanas are not Buddhist sects | Vividness

Unlike Hinayana Buddhists, who see nirvana as the final goal of practice, Mahayana Buddhists see it as a higher form of delusion still involving the dualities of subject and object, existence and nonexistence.

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

This error succeeded in confusing matters, such that shūkyō, which formerly referred strictly to the Zen path of realization, now came to refer to the whole panoply of faiths covered by the English word “religion.”

There is a traditional formulation known as the Three Treasures, whereby no practice can flourish unless it includes three things: meditation, guidance, and community. The old terms for these are Buddha, dharma, and sangha.

In the same way Truth needs no label: it is neither Buddhist, Christian, Hindu nor Moslem. It is not the monopoly of anybody. Sectarian labels are a hindrance to the independent understanding of Truth, and they produce harmful prejudices in men’s minds.

Buddhism is a method of liberation which has emerged as a way of life in Asia, but which is not so closely tied to the different cultures of Asia as such other philosophies or religions as Hinduism or Confucianism or Shinto.