The nirvanic phase may continue for a limited period as merely being liberated from samsara. From Wordnik.com. [The Buddhist Explanation of Rebirth ��� Part One: The Place of Rebirth in Buddhism and the Topic of Mental Continuums] Reference
Preed followed, only to find himself in - if not the fabled nirvanic sands of Ss'ra'oun, at least a place where he could feel comfortable. From Wordnik.com. [Diuturnity's Dawn]
People will begin to willingly or unwillingly, wittingly or unwittingly cannonball into nirvanic group awareness through virtual wormholes. From Wordnik.com. [Gaze into your Crystal Ball] Reference
Within the nirvanic phase, once the continuum of karmic constant habits comes to an end, the enlightened period begins and continues with no end. From Wordnik.com. [The Buddhist Explanation of Rebirth ��� Part Two: The Analysis of How Mental Continuums Perpetuate Themselves] Reference
As that discovery dawns, you realize that all the clutter -- even the thought-clutter of your mind and the event-clutter of your life -- is powerless to obstruct the nirvanic relief of Pure Being. From Wordnik.com. [Dean Sluyter: Your Junk Drawer vs. Nirvana] Reference
Moreover, the samsaric existence of an individual person is not permanent in the sense of being eternal; nor is the nirvanic existence of an individual person impermanent in the sense of being temporary. From Wordnik.com. [A Buddhist View of Islam] Reference
The second phase is the nirvanic or liberated phase, when that mental continuum continues to manifest birth and death, but totally free of confusion about reality, so that it contains no suffering at all. From Wordnik.com. [The Buddhist Explanation of Rebirth ��� Part One: The Place of Rebirth in Buddhism and the Topic of Mental Continuums] Reference
The slow way preserves carbonation and avoids that awkward band of foam that forms at the top of a carelessly poured glass and forces one to wait a few precious seconds before taking that first nirvanic sip. From Wordnik.com. [Wine: Notes from the dump bucket] Reference
What endures, then, through the samsaric and nirvanic phases is the package of continuums of an individual clear light mind, individual subtlest life-supporting energy, and an individual conventional “me” imputable on them. From Wordnik.com. [The Buddhist Explanation of Rebirth ��� Part Two: The Analysis of How Mental Continuums Perpetuate Themselves] Reference
By the force of the karmic aftermath that each being has built up from previous behavior, this deepest level of mind creates all the appearances of both samsaric and nirvanic existence that this being individually and subjectively experiences. From Wordnik.com. [A Buddhist View of Islam] Reference
Once again Sullivan gets on bended knees upon his gold-plated knee-pads with hands clasped, his face in a rictus of nirvanic adoration for his blessed black boy, while he esteems to folly and fumble through his own thought processes as to whether or not he's being delusional about his messianic savior. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew Sullivan reflects on whether he's "delusional" to say that Obama "had an 'objectively miraculous' fortnight."] Reference
During the nirvanic phase of the mental continuum, when the continuum of all disturbing emotions and attitudes, as well as karmic urges, that were parts of that mental continuum have come to an end, two other aspects of experiencing things that are parts of that continuum cause the continuum to keep on generating next moments. From Wordnik.com. [The Buddhist Explanation of Rebirth ��� Part Two: The Analysis of How Mental Continuums Perpetuate Themselves] Reference
This devoid nature pertains to everything, impure or pure, that either an unaware, samsaric mind or a nirvanic one that is purified of unawareness respectively gives rise to – including, in either case, both what can be affected by other phenomena and what cannot, in other words both "conditioned" and "unconditioned" phenomena. From Wordnik.com. [The Gelug-Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra ��� Session One] Reference
If you are working in any sector where the content can be digitised broadcast, music, newspapers, movies, and er, education then you should repeat the content law to yourself everyday, because it means you have to find alternative revenue streams for when your content achieves its nirvanic state of free and available to everyone. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-08-05] Reference
The last 15 minutes made my first kidney stones passed last spring seem nirvanic in comparison. From Wordnik.com. [Salem-News.com] Reference
Mindfulness controls the flux of samsaric life so as to reorient it to nirvanic detachment and simplicity. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph S. O'Leary homepage] Reference
No longer aloof in nirvanic: calm, awakened it drew near its enemies, alert, cunning, circumspect, ready. to strike. From Wordnik.com. [The Silent Places] Reference
It was as yet aloof, unheeding, buddhistic, brooding in nirvanic calm, still unawakened to put forth the might of its displeasure. From Wordnik.com. [The Silent Places] Reference
HIS nirvanic theft ring called Wall street, against mine and many libtards grain, the sumbitch doesn't even have the class to man up and say a simple thank you. From Wordnik.com. [Balloon Juice] Reference
Even if we take the MMK as based on the Perfection of Wisdom sutras and as presenting the Mahâyâna vision of emptiness in all its radicality, we can see it not as catapulting us into a nirvanic cloud of unknowing, but as guiding us to progressively to deeper meditative insight. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph S. O'Leary homepage] Reference
Of compulsive samsaric existence or nirvanic complacency. From Wordnik.com. [A Short Commentary on Thirty-seven Bodhisattva Practices ��� Day Three] Reference
Thus, the Seventh Dalai Lama continued, "A basis (of samsaric and nirvanic existence) is always just an interpolation projected by our minds. From Wordnik.com. [A Commentary on Developing Deepest Bodhichitta (the Understanding of Voidness) in Thirty-seven Bodhisattva Practices] Reference
If thats his only gripe in life he’s assuredly ‘blessed’ but rest assured anyone that tarred-up about such a small thing (as Hazel O Connor incidentally said about Midge Ure ..verbatim ‘the main drawback was that there wasn’t much to drawback’) is not in some biopsych nirvanic state(not that any such thing exists;believe me i’ve met so called enlightened monks and Brothers). From Wordnik.com. [Anthony Colpo: a man obsessed | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.] Reference
Or nirvanic complacency. From Wordnik.com. [Thirty-seven Bodhisattva Practices] Reference
Why not push on, (instead,) to nirvanic release. From Wordnik.com. [Engaging in Bodhisattva Behavior - Shantideva ��� 8. Far-Reaching Mental Stability] Reference
Black Ice, plus many classic musical nuggets of history that will set one to nirvanic rapture as the band belts them out of the speakers for eardrum shattering effect. http: / / www. typepad.com / t / trackback / 764480 / 33486054. From Wordnik.com. [Spew] Reference
Nature was, then, a gigantic engine, a vast cyclopean power, huge, terrible, a leviathan with a heart of steel, knowing no compunction, no forgiveness, no tolerance; crushing out the human atom standing in its way, with nirvanic calm, the agony of destruction sending never a jar, never the faintest tremour through all that prodigious mechanism of wheels and cogs. From Wordnik.com. [The Octopus : A story of California] Reference
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