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  • After being corrected and printed, the one thousand five hundred pages reduced themselves to six hundred, yielding a voluminous treatise on the ninety-nine names of God and formulas for attaining nirvana through respiratory exercise.†   (source)
  • Who knew what Nirvana or Alice In Chains might do to a brain so bruised?†   (source)
  • It's like adolescent nirvana.†   (source)
  • It was a reporter's nirvana, a place where smash-and-grab robbers stalked tourists with chunks of concrete, where whole skyscrapers stood on foundations of drug money, where the Ton-tons Macoute of Haiti reached across the Florida Straits to kill political enemies, and old men with hatred infusing every cell of their bodies played soldier in the Glades, dreaming of the day they could kill Castro.†   (source)
  • A convicted drug dealer asking that his sentence be overturned because heroin helps him reach nirvana?†   (source)
  • The 1991 top ten included Pavement, N.W.A., Naughty by Nature, Teenage Fanclub, Blur, Metallica, Nirvana, and LL Cool J. Those songs made me think of Larry and of the trouble-seeking girl I had been when they were first released.†   (source)
  • She wore paint-covered sweatpants and a Nirvana T-shirt.†   (source)
  • "Nirvana," Fang said, pawing through food that was still good but not sellable.†   (source)
  • This was the nature and the method of the rebellion against existence and of the undefined quest for an unnamed Nirvana.†   (source)
  • The Jade Emperor stepped out and announced that the entire Wang family could transcend this world for nirvana, which they did.†   (source)
  • He's wearing a black T-shirt with NIRVANA printed across the front in splattery red lettering.†   (source)
  • Surely somewhere there must be a special prep course for Nirvana and points East designed strictly for actors, and I think S. would have found it.†   (source)
  • Prayer should not trouble one who has gone on to Nirvana, no matter what the circumstances of his going.†   (source)
  • But we will not reach the nirvana, he won't and we won't.†   (source)
  • Both drives have the identical purpose...to win Nirvana.†   (source)
  • You don't look like that Nirvana guy anymore.†   (source)
  • And then her eyes fell on The Nirvana Wide Web: Connections to a Higher Consciousness.†   (source)
  • She had on ripped black tights and a wrinkled Nirvana T-shirt.†   (source)
  • She spent some time alone in her room, playing Nirvana loudly to reassure them she was alright.†   (source)
  • Because salvation and virtue as well, Sansara and Nirvana as well, are mere words, Govinda.†   (source)
  • Those who are not born again among men have now gone on to Nirvana.†   (source)
  • The Life Instinct fights for Nirvana by smashing all opposition.†   (source)
  • And Siddhartha: "He has lived for sixty years and has not reached the nirvana.†   (source)
  • The Death Instinct attempts to win Nirvana by destroying itself.†   (source)
  • Brahma held forth upon the Eightfold Path and the glory that is Nirvana.†   (source)
  • There is no thing which would be Nirvana; there is just the word Nirvana.†   (source)
  • "The Buddha has gone to nirvana," said Brahma.†   (source)
  • Out of Nirvana and into the lotus, he comes.†   (source)
  • Quoth Govinda: "Not just a word, my friend, is Nirvana.†   (source)
  • laughing at that grass that tasted like dry dung and had hardly any hallucinogenic effect but did activate the power of suggestion; the yoga exercises and meditations they had performed as a couple, seated face to face in complete relaxation, staring into each other's eyes and murmuring Sanskrit words that could send them all the way to nirvana but that generally had the opposite effect, and they would wind up slipping out of other people's sight, stretched out beneath the tall reeds in the garden, desperately making love; the books they had read by candlelight, drowning in passion and smoke; the interminable gatherings during which they discussed the pessimistic postwar philosophers o†   (source)
  • Everything she'd mentioned except the Nirvana had actually been my mom's, and even some of that was hers.†   (source)
  • Her name is Lori Goldston and I bet when she was younger, she practiced two hours a day like some other girl I know because if you want to play with the philharmonic, or with Nirvana, that's what you have to do.†   (source)
  • I read an article about Nirvana on one visit, and it didn't have any references to honey mustard dressing or lettuce.†   (source)
  • Within a matter of months, our half-forgotten Oregon band was on the cover of Time magazine being touted as "The Millennials' Nirvana."†   (source)
  • Maybe she could not make her husband do what she wanted him to do, but through her piety and good works she not only saved him from the condemnation brought about by his polluted acts, she also helped her whole family reach nirvana.†   (source)
  • Together, they taught of the Way of the Eightfold Path, the glory of Nirvana, the illusion of the world and the chains that the world lays upon a man.†   (source)
  • Oh Govinda, I believe out of all the Samanas out there, perhaps not a single one, not a single one, will reach the nirvana.†   (source)
  • A person or an act is never entirely Sansara or entirely Nirvana, a person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful.†   (source)
  • You were judged worthy of Nirvana.†   (source)
  • Never again, after our exalted Gotama has become one with the Nirvana, never since then have I met a person of whom I felt: this is a holy man!†   (source)
  • If he chooses instead the way of the Tantras, combining Samsara and Nirvana, comprehending the world and continuing to live in it, this one is mighty among dreamers.†   (source)
  • Others say that he did not take up the robe again, but that the bird was a messenger of the Powers Beyond Life, summoning him back again to the peace of Nirvana, to know forever the Great Rest, the perpetual bliss, and to hear the songs the stars sing upon the shores of the great sea.†   (source)
  • When the exalted Gotama spoke in his teachings of the world, he had to divide it into Sansara and Nirvana, into deception and truth, into suffering and salvation.†   (source)
  • The sinner, which I am and which you are, is a sinner, but in times to come he will be Brahma again, he will reach the Nirvana, will be Buddha—and now see: these 'times to come' are a deception, are only a parable!†   (source)
  • To struggle against those who are mighty among dreamers and are mighty for ill, or ugliness, is not to struggle for that which the sages have taught us to be meaningless in terms of Samsara or Nirvana, but rather it is to struggle for the symmetrical dreaming of a dream, in terms of the rhythm and the point, the balance and the antithesis which will make it a thing of beauty.†   (source)
  • He possessed, so the believers said, the highest enlightenment, he remembered his previous lives, he had reached the nirvana and never returned into the cycle, was never again submerged in the murky river of physical forms.†   (source)
  • While his thoughts were still dwelling on Siddhartha's wondrous words, while he was still struggling in vain and with reluctance to think away time, to imagine Nirvana and Sansara as one, while even a certain contempt for the words of his friend was fighting in him against an immense love and veneration, this happened to him: He no longer saw the face of his friend Siddhartha, instead he saw other faces, many, a long sequence, a flowing river of faces, of hundreds, of thousands, which all came and disappeared, and yet all seemed to be there simultaneously, which all constantly changed and renewed themselves, and which were still all Siddhartha.†   (source)
  • Briefly, nirvana means "the Extinguishing of the Threefold Fire of Desire, Hostility, and Delusion."†   (source)
  • Professor Toynbee arrives at his misconstruction by way of a trite and incorrect interpretation of the Oriental ideas of nirvana, Buddha, and Bodhisattva; then contrasting these ideals.†   (source)
  • Ultimately it is the Christian attitude which is self-interested and hedonistic, since the aim is always to get away from the painful struggle of earthly life and find eternal peace in some kind of Heaven or Nirvana.†   (source)
  • Universal Harmony'—'Eternal Spirit'—'Divine Purpose'—'Nirvana'—'Paradise'—'Racial Supremacy'—'The Dictatorship of the Proletariat.†   (source)
  • Thereupon the venerable Ananda spoke to the venerable Anuruddha as follows: "Reverend Anuruddha, The Blessed One has passed into Nirvana."†   (source)
  • Nay, brother Ananda, The Blessed One has not yet passed into Nirvana; he has arrived at the cessation of perception and sensation.†   (source)
  • This our worldly life is an activity of nirvana itself, not the slightest distinction exists between them.†   (source)
  • With the final "extirpation of delusion, desire, and hostility" (nirvana) the mind knows that it is not what it thought: thought goes.†   (source)
  • He was a personification of the Threefold Fire and of the difficulties of the last test, a final threshold guardian to be passed by the universal hero on his supreme adventure to nirvana.†   (source)
  • The second wonder to be noted in the Bodhisattva myth is its annihilation of the distinction between life and release-from-lifewhich is symbolized (as we have observed) in the Bodhisattva's renunciation of nirvana.†   (source)
  • And this is his great "compassionate act"; for by it the truth is revealed that in the understanding of one in whom the Threefold Fire of Desire, Hostility, and Delusion is dead, this world is nirvana.†   (source)
  • The pause on the threshold of nirvana, the resolution to forego until the end oftime (which never ends) immersion in the untroubled pool of eternity, represents a realization that the distinction between eternity and time is only apparent—made, perforce, by the rational mind, but dissolved in the perfect knowledge of the mind that has transcended the pairs of opposites.†   (source)
  • are on the earth with their minds engrossed by earthly things, and they let fly their hair and cry aloud, and stretch out their arms and cry aloud, and fall headlong on the ground and roll to and fro, saying, 'All too soon will The Blessed One pass into Nirvana; all too soon will The Happy One pass into Nirvana; all too soon will The Light of The World vanish from sight.'†   (source)
  • trance; and rising from the second trance, he entered the first trance; and rising from the first trance, he entered the second trance; and rising from the second trance, he entered the third trance; and rising from the third trance, he entered the fourth trance; and rising from the fourth trance, immediately The Blessed One passed into Nirvana.34 FIGURE 77.†   (source)
  • In this section the following have been equated: The Void — The World; Eternity — Time; Nirvana — Samsara; Truth — Illusoriness; Enlightenment — Compassion; The God — The Goddess; The Enemy — The Friend; Death — Birth; The Thunderbolt — The Bell; The Jewel — The Lotus; Subject — Object; Yab — Yum; Yang — Yin; Tao, Supreme Buddha, Bodhisattva, Divan Mukta, The Word Made Flesh.†   (source)
  • And these deities, Ananda, are angered, saying, "From afar have we come to behold The Tathagata, for but seldom, and on rare occasions, does a Tathagata, a saint, and Supreme Buddha arise in the world; and now, to-night, in the last watch, will The Tathagata pass into Nirvana; but this powerful priest stands in front of The Blessed One, concealing him, and we have no chance to see The Tathagata, although his last moments are near."†   (source)
  • c., quenched, when the mind has been curbed, one attains to the 'peace of Nirvana, 'despiration in God:— It is by ceasing to feed our fires that the peace i, reached, of which it is well said in another tradition that 'it passeth understanding'The word "de-spiration" b contrived from a literal Latinization of the Sanskrit nirvana, nir = "out, forth, outward, our of, out from, away, away from"; vana = "blown"; nirvana = "blown out, gone out, extinguished."†   (source)
  • Some of the deities, Ananda, are in the air with their minds engrossed by earthly things, and they let fly their hair and cry aloud, and stretch out their arms and cry aloud, and fall headlong to the ground and roll to and fro, saying, 'All too soon will The Blessed One pass into Nirvana; all too soon will The Light of The World vanish from sight!'†   (source)
  • the place of the sitting and the place of the standing; for seven days he abode in a pavilion furnished by the gods and reviewed the whole doctrine of causality and release; for seven days he sat beneath the tree where the girl Sujata had brought him milk-rice in a golden bowl, and there meditated on the doctrine of the sweetness of nirvana; he removed to another tree and a great storm raged for seven days, but the King of Serpents emerged from the roots and protected the Buddha with his expanded hood; finally, the Buddha sat for seven days beneath a fourth tree enjoying still the sweetness of liberation.†   (source)
  • Kennicott smoked a pipe while she leaned back in the buggy and let her tired spirit be absorbed in the Nirvana of the incomparable sky.†   (source)
  • Isn't there any Nirvana pervaded by the faint thrilling of instruments that have fallen into the dust of wormwood but that yet had frail, tremulous, and everlasting souls?†   (source)
  • In the oak-woods of Britain the Druids held their followers; Odin and Freya maintained their godships in Gaul and Germany and among the Hyperboreans; Egypt was satisfied with her crocodiles and Anubis; the Persians were yet devoted to Ormuzd and Ahriman, holding them in equal honor; in hope of the Nirvana, the Hindoos moved on patient as ever in the rayless paths of Brahm; the beautiful Greek mind, in pauses of philosophy, still sang the heroic gods of Homer; while in Rome nothing was so common and cheap as gods.†   (source)
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