What is Nirvana?

Answer 1

Answer: Nirvana is the state of eternal happiness. Eternal happiness could be achieved by giving up worldly desires for things such as food and clothes and follow the Eightfold Path.

Answer: Nirvana is the state (not a place) of being free from both suffering and the cycle of rebirth. It is an important concept to Buddhists and Jains. Nirvana is a Sanskrit word. It means "to cease blowing" or "extinguishing" implying that passions and desires are non-existent or "unbinding" implying that the mind is free.

Along with freedom from physical needs, there is an implication that the is no attachment to maintaining a separate existence of self.

Answer: Nirvana is recognition of the world as it is, without the bewilderment of the 3 ignorances.

1. When taking a body a person decides to be in that body. 2. There is now a separate self with separate experience and a unique mind. However, we are also part of the unity of awareness without the differentiation of a person. and without the object awareness of a person in a body. This ambivilant condition causes confusion. 3. In a constant attempt to resolve our confusion we assign meaning and importance and create our view of the world around us. We then wrongly assign our creation to others. These three ignorances taken together create bewilderment. It is this bewilderment that produces Samsara. Samsara is just what is from a bewildered view. Without bewilderment Samsara is Nirvana

Answer 2

Nirvana is a term coined by the Buddha, and is said to be the goal of all Buddhists. The Buddha was a Hindu prince, and he was trying to understand the meaning of Moksha. Moksha is liberation from the cycle of death and rebirth. The Buddha, who was earlier prince Siddhartha Gautama, realized that this world is full of dukkha or suffering, and he said that the only way to escape from the cycle of suffering in this life as well as in future lives, when we are reborn after the death of the body, is through Nirvana. Nirvana means escape from rebirth, it means freedom from Karma or our actions. How does one do that? Buddha said we have to go within and switch on the light - what we call Enlightenment. Enlightenment is overcoming ignorance, it is realizing the Truth. Then we attain the state of Nirvana, a state of awareness, of consciousness, of mindfulness. And this leads us to becoming one with the Divine, we escape from coming back to earth.

Answer 3

(in Buddhism) a transcendent state in which there is neither suffering, desire, nor sense of self, and the subject is released from the effects of karma and the cycle of death and rebirth. It represents the final goal of Buddhism.

Answer 4

It is a state of complete happiness and peace and wanting of nothing.

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Answer 5

The state of not wanting anything