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Nirvana is for All

Buddhism with Heaven and Hell - Nirvana is for Everyone

In Western culture, we think in terms of "heaven" and "hell."

Food was heavenly; living with my wife is pure hell, or heaven on
earth.

We know exactly what "heaven" and "hell" mean.

But what do "heaven" and "hell" mean to a Buddhist?

From the Buddhist point of view, there is neither "heaven" nor
"hell", because this already presupposes a "thinking", a division
of things into "good" or "bad", into "evil" or "right".

As a Buddhist, one should look at things, but not judge them.

The ego makes the decisions for us, but the Buddha's way was to
silence the ego, to stop having to put up with the ego chattering
away all the time.

Not to judge, but to accept things and people as they are, to
live in the "now" and in the "here".

Nirvana" is the state of nothingness, thinking and evaluating are
over, the chattering ego is silenced, there is no more I, nothing
exists.

I am then in Nirvana when I have no more desires, feel no more
limits.

Nirvana is "heaven" and "hell" in the same land, in the same
mind.

It depends on the way of looking at it, on the point of view.

So if you don't think in categories like "heaven" and "hell", but
only "assume", then you are in Nirvana!

We have the Nirvana in us! Do we find it?

FATE TAKES NOTHING THAT HAS NOT BEEN GIVEN

- LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA - ROMAN PHILOSOPHER - 1 TO 65

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