Definitionn. (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation
Last update: July 7, 2015
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Despite his desire to achieve nirvana, the young Buddhist found that even the buzzing of a fly could distract him from his meditation. [Please select]
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The monk urged me to sit and meditate until I reached nirvana. [Please select]
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Under the psychologist’s care, I was able to look past my recent abuse and recall the gleeful nirvana of my youth. [Please select]
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These had not yet attained to the opium-smokers Nirvana. [Please select]
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Perhaps the most frequent in the Buddhist text is Arahatship," the state of him who is worthy "; and the one exclusively used in Europe is Nirvana, the" dying out "; that is, the dying out in the heart of the fell fire of the three cardinal sins - sensuality, ill-will and stupidity.'° The choice of this term by European writers, a choice made long before anyof the Buddhist canonical texts had been published or translated, has had a most unfortunate result. [Please select]
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Yet why cavil at the vehicle by which one arrives at Nirvana. [Please select]
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And that which is sufficient unto a man is Nirvana unto him--if he but knew it. [Please select]
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While nature and society conspire to mock him, Nirvana invites him to its peace. [Please select]
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"Have you," writes Charles Ferguson, "had dreams of Nirvana and sickly visions and raptures." [Please select]
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Of course, one doesn't say "extinction": one says "the other world," or "God," or "the _true_ life," or Nirvana, salvation, blessedness. [Please select]
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No, don't you move," she commanded the others, beginning to stir from their nirvana to make dutiful offers of help." [Please select]
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