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RFK discusses the state of Nirvana and going through difficulties

16 Dec 2023 · 1 min

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A short monologue (from a YouTube video) explaining the Buddhist notion of nirvana as "putting out the fire"—the extinguishing of ambition, pride, anger, and desire—and advising that one should treat such emotions as passing clouds. The speaker emphasizes weathering life's difficulties without being crushed, maintaining indifference to disruptive passions, and focusing on one’s actions and the choices one can actually make.

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In the Buddhist tradition, the word nirvana means putting out the fire. And that means the fire of ambition, of pride, of anger, of desire. All of these things that we're supposed to view as just clouds that pass over us and that we take an interest in them, but ultimately are indifferent. And we all go through difficulties in our lives, and we have to be able to weather those difficulties without being crushed in our soul or without being ultimately affected by it and just focus on what we do, you know, and the choices that we actually get to make. That's ultimately the only thing that's important.