निर्वाणं च भवश्चैव द्वयमेव न विद्यते।
परिज्ञानं भवस्यैव निर्वाणमिति कथ्यते॥
Nirvāṇa and saṃsāra are not two separate realities. The complete realization of the true nature of saṃsāra itself is called nirvāṇa.
~ Ācārya Nāgārjuna , Yuktiṣaṣṭikārikā.
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Pet blessings are cute and amazing!
The love of Buddha is boundless towards all beings.
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The Buddha and Ācārya Śāntarakṣita take a similar stance on the Vedas. The Buddha teaches that the Vedas do not lead to liberation,its disaster,while Śāntarakṣita argues that they are not true even accidentally.Thus, both reject the Vedas as a reliable source of ultimate truth.
Women flirt with men who give them nothing; with generous men, they get restless. They look down with disdain on the humble, but towards the arrogant show simpering contentment.
~ Ven.Ashvaghosa, Saundarnanda kavya.
Even if you love her and treat her well, her feelings may still change. So don't base your happiness or trust entirely on her, just as you wouldn't rely on an enemy.
Bodiless wind can be caught;
An angry snake can be captured, but the mind of women cannot be grasped.
Candrakirti comments that a wife will continue to love and remain faithful to her husband as long as a she does not “experience the taste of another man” . Once she has that opportunity, and has sex with another man, her love for her husband vanishes.
@Ethan0008000 Vetting and spotting fake signs is intellectual verification. You can't use your intellect to screen the teacher but claim the knowledge requires no screening.
If checking the teacher is a mandatory prerequisite, you are performing verification before accepting the source.
Lol🤡
@Ethan0008000 lol it's like a sick person drinking a random bottle of fluid and saying, "I don't need to verify if this is medicine or poison, because once I am completely cured, I won't have any doubt
how do you know you aren't drinking poison *right now* 🤡
@Ethan0008000 Tested within the tradition," "checking contradictions," and "recognizing qualities" are the exact definitions of intellectual verification and validation.
You just completely destroyed your own "no verification needed" premise to save your argument. This is peak of hypocrisy 🤡
@Ethan0008000 You are confusing the *occurrence* of a thought with its *validity*.
A hallucination (like a rope-snake) also occurs immediately and feels 100% self-evident, but it is still factually false.
Without verification experiencing an interpretation doesn't mean it's correct.🤡
@Ethan0008000 Shruti doesn’t speak, Guru does.
If Guru is not pramana himself, and your own intellect is unverified, how do you know your Guru isn't a fraud teaching nonsense?
You are blindly trusting an unverified man inside Maya while screaming "no verification needed" Absolute blind dogma
@Ethan0008000 Claiming your unverified intellect can instantly grasp the "self-evident" without verification is like saying a sword can cut itself.
You are desperately mixing Paramartha (absolute reality) with Vyavahara (relative world) to hide your loophole.🤡
@Ethan0008000 If a shruti/Guru says rabbit has horn, would you believe it just because it is authority?
If yes, you are trapped in blind dogma. If no, then you admit your intellect must verify the source before accepting it.
Either way, your "no verification needed" loop has collapsed.