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How can one cope with having a glimpse of about three weeks of Nirvana and then loosen it?

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Why does this happen?

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I got a question.

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What is a glimpse of Nirvana?

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Yeah, I think he claims he had enlightenment, some kind of experience of enlightenment.

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It lasted for three weeks and then faded off.

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that doesn't make sense to me.

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I don't understand that.

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Do you understand that, Udo Donama?

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Well, I understand it to probably not be Nibbana or enlightenment.

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Because remember, there's a lot of things that seem to be that and are not that.

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What was happening for those

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The experience of nibbana can't be for three weeks unless you're in parinibbana.

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I mean, it could be, but the technical manuals say seven days is the maximum of total nibbana for a non, besides parinibbana, for someone who still has kvadisesa, who still has something left to be lived out.

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uh... but but that seven days is there there's no conduct there's no aggregates there's no physical there's no there's no feelings there's no perceptions there's no thoughts and there's no consciousness uh... uh... except in the technical sense of a consciousness that takes Nibbana as an object what is that i'm i'm skeptical but it's just a technicality uh... three weeks after that

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Some of the aspects of that experience, if it is an experience of Nibbana, will wear off.

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What won't wear off, at the very least, are what are called the three lower fetters.

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That person has no more view of self.

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It's not possible for them to give rise to a view, to hold on to or to ascribe to a view of self.

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It's no longer possible for that person to

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consider as essential that which is unessential.

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For instance, thinking that rites or rituals are going to make them enlightened.

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And it's no longer possible for that person to have doubt about the Buddha, the Dhamma, and the Sangha.

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And then of course it goes on and on.

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If you see Nibbana again and again and again, or if you get to the point where you're an anagami, then you have no more greed and anger.

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And if you

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practice and become an arahant, then there's no more greed, anger, or delusion.

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And that doesn't fade away.

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Enlightenment doesn't fade away.