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Hibana, a physical place, does the Buddha reside there with other arhats?

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Clemente?

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Martin?

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Martin, you're quiet over there.

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The answer is no, right away.

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He's having a cuckoo hangout.

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Owen?

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He's having a cuckoo hangout.

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Well, there are concepts in the Mahayana of pure lands of Buddhas.

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But did Siddhartha go Tama?

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I don't think so.

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I believe that once Narada becomes a Buddha, that's the end of Earth.

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So I don't see them being born into a place that you would call the realm of nirvana.

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Well, nirvana is khandavimutti.

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It's free from the aggregates.

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So there's no physical, first of all.

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If it were a physical place, then it wouldn't be nirvana, because there would be the physical.

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If there was an experience of the physical, then there would be the mental aggregates, which are...

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feeling, perception, thoughts, and consciousness, with any of those or all of those come together, then it's not nibbana as well.

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So that's an idea of the sort of criteria you can use to answer such a question.

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Does it have any or all of the five aggregates?

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Yes, then it's not nibbana.

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So then what is it?

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We answered that one, though.

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Didn't we answer what is nibbana or something?

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Nibbana is perfect happiness, perfect peace, freedom from suffering.

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That's what nibbana is.

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I think what needs to be elucidated here is the distinction which I think the person asking the comment is really trying to imply is that there is a distinction between relative Nirvana-like and Pari-Nirvana.

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And I really think that they're asking, does a Buddha exist after Pari-Nirvana?

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Right.

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Well, the Buddha never existed in the first place.

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It's a concept.

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That's the answer to that one.

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People often ask, well, then does an arahant cease to exist at death?

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That's not a proper question.

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It's like asking, when did you stop beating your wife?

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I never started.

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I never beat my wife.

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You can't ask me that question.

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When did you give up crack cocaine?

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That's these trap questions where they ask a question that creates an assumption.