Nirvana

Bhante stood. It was time to go. He put on his cloak and rode with me to his lecture. "Ninety percent of Buddha’s teachings are about the mind," he told his audience. He went on to say that the goal of Buddhism — whether Zen, Mahayana, Tibetan, or Theraveda — is the enlightenment called nirvana. "As a result of this supreme state of higher consciousness, ignorance, arrogance, fear, and anger fall away. One no longer distorts one’s vision of life or of the self," he emphasized. Bhante explained that all these different schools of Buddhism followed the same Sakyamuni Buddha.

All life’s problems, Bhante said, can be reduced to one simple problem, that of dukkha, suffering or unsatisfactoriness, or conflicts. The solution put forward by the Buddhas or Enlightened Ones of all ages is the Noble Eightfold Path. The efficiency of the path lies in the practice of it. The Buddha’s path still beckons the weary pilgrim to the haven of nirvana’s security and peace.

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