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What nirvana means

December 29, 2009 By: Virag Virag Category: Uncategorized

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Most people have heard of nirvana. It has become
equated with a sort of eastern version of heaven.
Actually, nirvana simplymeans cessation.
It is the cessation of passion, aggression , ego
and ignorance.the cessation of the struggle to prove our
existence to the world, to survive. We don’t have to struggle
to survive after all. We have already survived. We survive now,
the struggle was just an extra complication that we added to our
lives because we had lost our confidence in the way things are.
We no longer need to manipulate things as they are into things as
we would like them to be.