• Elting@piefed.social
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    6 hours ago

    I don’t think Nirvana is an afterlife, rather a state of being where you are at peace and one with the universe. Maybe I understand buddhism wrong?

    • workerONE@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      Some Buddhists, like Shambala Tibetan Buddhists teach that if you can stop the cycle of cause and effect you will disappear, in a good way. I’m not sure if that’s a teaching you are meant to digest and learn something from, or if it’s more of a statement of what they think will happen when you achieve your goal to stop causing suffering.

      Some Buddhists believe in energy transfer, and when you die you can be in a temporary state of energy transfer, but only temporary and not a place

    • lauha@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      Yes, Buddhism has no say about afterlife, unless you believe in literal rebirth. Nirvana is a state of mind when on is free from Dukkha (“suffeting”).