>everything you know is an illusion. this is not your true

Can my higher self go back in time and get with comfy pre-plastic-surgery Kylie Jenner?

>identifying with the ephemeral

>>18154542
>assuming anything is not ephemeral just to give you something to identify with

lost me at the Nirvana part...

>>18154534
Plastic surgery looks so ugly. Hate to say it, but it's true.

The same thing that plastic surgery does can be accomplished naturally.

>>18154569
I mean, unless your nose gets fucking sliced off. Then in that instance, you might need it just to close a temporary gap.

>>18154569
Yup, happy people are attractive as fuck. Attitude is even much more important than makeup.

>>18154522
>pic
Is this thing supposed to be attractive?

>>18154522
Great band

nirvana in the buddha's historical teaching means extinction. he gave the example of a fire, burning for a long time, which by being deprived of fuel goes out. that "going out" is nirvana. there is no "higher self" in the teaching of early buddhism, although the subtle, profound teaching of not-self has engendered much controversy over the years among those unwilling to accept that buddha was not teaching about an ultimate self or state and instead about the extinction of the life process and the end of rebirth.

where *is* buddha, now? when the monk yamaka had the view that "for an accomplished monk (arahant), who has exhausted the instincts (khinasava), after the death of the body, he is cut off and does not exist anymore", the venerable sariputta asked him whether he identified the tathagata (ie the one thus gone) as form, feeling, perception, volition, or consciousness, or as separate from them, he could not locate him in any way. so, if even a tathagata does not exist absolutely even while living, how can one conclude that, after death, he ceases to exist? his wrong view thus abolished, yamaka stated that "form, feeling, perception, volition, consciousness are impermanent; what is impermanent is suffering; what is suffering has (in the case of the tathagata after death) ceased."

so, nirvana is not the annihilation or extinction of a formerly existent self, but the cessation of the impersonal life process which is, in its very nature, impermanent and insubstantial, empty of self.

>tfw your higher self is Beelzebub

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>>18154522
You took Buddhism and added a fedora to it. Good job.