What is Nirvana ?

cdsazxc Says:

May 18, 2008 - Wow...

cwalwanis Says:

May 26, 2008 - Thank you ever so much for posting this. This is such a great talk to put up. I want to thank you more but I'm just in awe. This shows what a truely amazing he is.

DieuHo Says:

Jun 10, 2008 - Thanks for sharing

HiAdrian Says:

Aug 10, 2008 - He's talking about the scope of perception. "Ultimate reality" isn't a suitable phrase though. The intellectual perception is just as (un)real as the direct, animal one. The latter seems to be way more enjoyable though, so why not dwell in it :)

Mwaterfall Says:

Aug 26, 2008 - It is interesting that Buddhist as well as some others, say that perception is an illusion. So if someone pulls a gun at me, that's an illusion too??? I think, perception should be considered as a part of the whole reality. One should accept the part as well as the whole. Why? There seems to be some buddhist teaching others to reject ideas, notions, concepts, et cetera... Let us be careful and balanced! AS HUMANS, WE NEED ALWAYS TO HAVE CONCEPTS AND IDEAS IN ORDER TO SURVIVE

MikoDollie Says:

Nov 9, 2008 - Interesting, he said wrong perceptions. Not every perception is part of reality and you can even find this concept taught in modern psychology.

MonMolo Says:

Dec 24, 2008 - Someone pointing a gun at you and pulling the trigger isn't a perception, it will still happen if you're totally unaware of it. Perception would be "I see this as good" or "I see this as bad" or "I don't see this" or "He wont pull that" - vice versa. A reality remains behind the veil of perception, that veil of perception helps us survive, but without it we understand that survival isn't everything.

tranquillize Says:

Dec 25, 2008 - Great video. The idea that all views are wrong views is something most people have trouble understanding. Thich Nhat always articulates his points in a way that the listener can understand. Thanks :)

kenny582 Says:

Dec 25, 2008 - I agree with you fully. I'm an athiest. No one needs to have a religion in order to find peace.

Ashitanoyuki Says:

Dec 28, 2008 - That's enlightenning. I have the same notion that right and wrong dont really exist. Right and wrong is depended on the perspective and perspectives are depended on the conditioning of individuals which is out of people's control.

Ashitanoyuki Says:

Dec 28, 2008 - If I pull out a gun at you, that's not an illusion. That's what happened and that's what you see. But the coming fear and anxiety and anger which follows after you see me pulling out a gun. That's coming from perception. Coz you perceive me as evil and willing to shoot you. That's perception. I might just wanna making a joke with you. But you perceive it as I want to kill you.

ohwell121 Says:

Jan 6, 2009 - dude...chill out This talk about Illusion is an intuition of something bigger than ourselves, there's another pararell world, and if you can get your mind into the right position you can get high off that, in a good way =) hahha

xXxplanexXx Says:

Jan 6, 2009 - ok, you can google this whatever, but when they say it is an illusion, they're correct and even science has got thier back. 99.999999999999% of every atom in the universe is emptiness. the only reason we actually feel and come in contact with things is due to the repulsion of atoms

xXxplanexXx Says:

Jan 6, 2009 - Science has even proved that 99.9999999999999% of the universe is emptiness. google if you want really. The reason we can feel objects is due to the repulsion of atoms.

mushroomagicman Says:

Jan 7, 2009 - Thanx for posting this. Those of us blessed with 'psychedelic' experiences fully understand the nature of existence and it helps us to understand that the chaos apparently manifesting in this dimension is based on the illusion that we are separate, and an absence of 'Spiritual Experience'. Youtube seems to attract more than its share of self-opinionated 'experts' whose minds are closed to anything but 'materialism'. There is only infinite Love -even David Icke is an illusion!!(he knows this!)