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: For the record, the earlier ping is found . Without a reply, I respectfully included the edits again. Thanks so much. ] (]) 12:14, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
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Nirvana is a Sanskrit word as you well know, but did you know it consists of tree words, Nir Vad Djna, literally this mean “Without wrong thought”, at least this is what my teacher Chhimed Rigdzin Rinpoche taught me. To reach Nirvana is to come to the end of ones preconceived ideas, to the place where the world is new at every moment.
Buddha hood is to gain the state of a Buddha, to be a Buddha is to gain throughout ages an accumulation of merits or positive accumulated fearlessness to deal with the parts of life that beings do not like to deal with and witch make up what is commonly known as the subconscious. Having gained a storage of “good merit” one will have the connection to a whole world of sentient beings, through ones work, and so will start at a proper time a new world cycle of Buddhist teachings.
To become a Buddha and to attain Nirvana is one and the same, there is no difference between the two, in actual experience. To reach Nirvana is like becoming truly sane. And to become a Buddha is to become the King of Fearlessness.
Nirvana you may gain for you self anytime but becoming a Buddha is another matter.
--Mitrapa 16:32, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)Mitrapa.
Different teachers give different etymologies for the word "nirvana". The most common is as follows: "nir" is the prefix meaning "to cease" or "to stop"; "vaana" means "blowing": thus "extinguished" or "blown out" would be the literal translation. - --Bodhirakshita 03:53, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
where to put this?
don't know yet.
Deity practice
I removed the following, misleading fragment from the article:
"Deity Tantra is often practiced at the moment directly prior to sexual climax. The practitioner takes a consort and this is practiced in pairs. Often times the couple pictures themselves as the deities in the mandala making love."
It gives the impression that tantric buddhist deity practices are predominantly done in a "sexual" setting. In reality however, these deity practices are just meditation practices - with no consort involved. In anuttarayogatantra, the deities often do have consorts, but anuttarayogatantra is not relevant to most tantric practitioners.
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Undid revert
Undid revert by Editor2020 as per the earlier ping. The RS by the Nyingma scholar is solid on the history of Secret Mantra and Vajrayana. A definitely better source than McMillan on the foundations and later spread of Vajrayana. Thank you. Pasdecomplot (talk) 22:11, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
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