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RE: The Early Schools of Indian Buddhism Series

in #mindfulness6 years ago

The one I was most wonder about was the school. You are very nice. @reddust I was curious about the connection with the Hinayanists experience.
The aim of the Hinayanists is to reach the target nirvan, and the goal of Mahayanists is to reach the degree of nostalgia which expresses absolute wisdom and universal love.

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@turkishcrew, yes the Hinayanists monastic goal is to become an arahant, lay followers gather merit for an auspicious rebirth through caring and feeding the monastic community and the Mayanist goal is to either take birth in the Buddha-fields I talk about in my Bodhisattva Bhumis series and both monastics and lay followers practice the virtues called the paramitas with the aspiration to become a Bodhisattva and eventually a Buddha who helps people learn to free themselves from their negative conditioning to they too can attain freedom from suffering and the rounds of rebirth..