det sägs att Buddha kunde se tillbaka i tiden dvs se tillbaka i tiden från och när han närmade sig Nirvana
|och att då såg han alla sina tidigare liv som i en klar sjö
men, frågan kvarstår efter alla dessa år....
var det verkligen sina egna tidigare liv som han såg - då finns reinkarnation!
men kom ihåg att han var (då) redan en del av universum, av alla liv
kan det vara så att det var andras liv, inte HANS egna andra liv som han såg? liv inte längre skiljbara från sina egna |
yes, it must be so that in Nirvana one does not look back or ahead. It must have been all there for the Tatagadha at the moment of Nirvana, past and present.
As you say, the ultimate destination.... but only for very few, i guess!
Nanda
nanda
These little verses and the comments that follow are very good to read. Thank you Nanda & Rebba.
The Jataka katha-s were appended to Buddha's life by well meaning followers much later!
The Buddha saw the innumerable transmigrations of all beings. In Utter Self-evidence he must have beatifically smiled. But then the vast seamless burden of All creations fell on him.He became a Bodhisattva!
Talking generally Nanda, I have dealt with these questions in my aphorisms.[I hope they are with you.]
The second book "Scrap Bits from the Notebooks of A Lunatic" closes thus!
Holding an unfading lotus
in his right hand
the Maitreya Buddha
sat alone amidst
the fetid squalor
of the last vast hells.
I wonder now how Swedish could have become Croatian! May be they are closely related!!! NO, will correct this.
Thank you, Nanda