in tibetan buddhism, what's the final "nirvana" like?

is it total extinction, or is it one being that's made up of the consciousnesses (holy shit, i spelled that right!) of all enlightened beings?

i'm back....and much less of a stupid sex/drug crazed child

om mani padme hum

 

dissolving as a grain of salt in the ocean

 

It likes long walks on the beach, pina coladas, and kissing in the rain

 

describe what the ocean is please

 

wet

in which there are not drops separate from its totality.

 

I don't think there's any set explanation of what exactly it's like. I have my theory. Guess we're just gonna have to experience it

 

the final enlightenment is like this, all are included and none are apart or arising

 

Two words:
It's AWESOME!

 

If it's total extinction, no one who'd had the experience could answer.

 

it is empty

 

In Tibetan Buddhism Dzogchen there are fifteen Bhumis. In Mahayana there are ten or eleven Bhumis. They all have long titles. The Guhyagarbha is very clear about this.

 

I'm not sure what the various branches of Buddhism have to say about the process of enlightenment and differing states of enlightenment but I thought it was the result of many lifetimes of effort and yet at the same time a divine grace given moment of instantaneous change that occurs where you go from being a self to being Self (pure consciousness, of which all things and all things that ever were are an expression of).

Buddha sat under a bodhi tree and in the course of one night, confronted Mara and became enlightened. So I'm not sure what to think about the idea of there being different stages of it. I guess maybe it's like peeling layers off of an onion?

 

Even if I were enlightened, which I am not, the path which I had followed would have cultivated a particular speak. In the 9th century Zen teacher Lin Chi said the now famous lines, "If you see Buddha on the side of the road kill him."


Those lines have ever since their utterance been interpretated as many ways as they have been spoken. But the main point at the time was to practice not to talk.

If I were liberated then so what then? It would do little for you.

Buddha said that liberation was the way to leave behind this suffering world. That is the path of Buddhism.

It matters little what school of Buddhism one follows as long as it leads to nirvana. Tibetan Buddhism (Tantric School) believes that one can enjoy all the pleasures of a normal life and also reach nirvana.

The state of nirvana is the state where habits are gone and the mind is least excited. That doesn't mean that the mind is dead. Just that it is supremely aware, and not full of distractions.

 

A person drinks water and knows himself whether it is cold or warm.
:bobby:

 

In my opinion, it is the ultimate freedom from the suffering of the separate self. However, to put a specific description into words cannot be achieved. Because the unmanifested vast formless is beyond language.

 

It isn't like anything.. What you are experiencing now is enlightenment. You must awaken to the fact that it is and always will be something you attain.. There is no searching that needs to be done. It is you and you are it. Now the question is.. how will you apply it to your life to help the world?

 

don't know much about buddhism, but I've heard that when a demon is annihilated, it is like a blessing to them

 

Words can't describe it, they are just logical constructs we use to distinguish this from that. So you will just have to go there to find out.

 

Its nonexistence. The end of this. Infinite nothingness. Game Over.

 

i imagine nirvana feels like the way i feel after a long yoga session when i do corpse pose in the grass for a long time until i feel my body sink into the earth and suddenly i am the earth.