old3bob

samsara properly understood is nirvana (paraphrased) not delusion for heavens sake which is only in the eye or mind of the beholder.

more of the harping on "delusion", which is its own form of delusion.

if that is all that someone touts run don't walk

interesting that you prove everything and more that my short post said

keep looking you might have to refute yourself...

im not digging a long nihilistic negation quote....

I'm not a Buddhist but I can dig the saying below: “There is, monks, an unborn, unbecome, unmade, unconditioned. If, monks there were not that unborn, unbecome, unmade, unconditioned, you could not know an escape here from the born, become, made, and conditioned. But because there is an unborn, unbecome, unmade, unconditioned, therefore you do know an escape from the born, become, made, and conditioned.” add volumes of commentary at your own risk...

define a dead Buddha? (other than a dead physical body)

one can find the 8 liberation's and a "beyond the beyond" mentioned. Btw there are Buddhists mentioning soul that some others deny.... "....Avalokiteśvara in Tibetan Buddhism is portrayed as a male deity. In China, Avalokiteśvara became the female deity Quan Yin, the manifestation of supreme compassion. She is often depicted riding a dragon in an ocean. In the first line, Avalokiteśvara is called the Bodhisattva of compassion. A Bodhisattva is a being who has Awakened (Bodhi) and achieved a state that opens them to Nirvana, permanent liberation. They have achieved this because they have dedicated their lives to purifying themselves from all the blemishes and wounds upon their soul...." (commentary found on the The Heart Sutra)

If i remember correctly the historic Buddha said something like even (the raft of ) Buddhism has to be set down at a certain point. (although not in the middle of the river so to speak)

we can also ask or say what is it not....for instance it is not a thing in the fullest meaning of that word.

parasiva is source for parashakti, (aka satchitanada) thus in that sense beyond. If your school does not recognize that so be it for them.

oh looks like a typo....no biggy. Brahman is also the whole kit and kaboodle besides just the transcendent/unmanifest, thus illusion is only in the eye of the beholder when we get right down to it.

such a dichotomy does not really exist, except or only apparently. "The Isha Upanishad — One of the most important phrases in this Upanishad is the teaching that we should, “see all beings in our self and our Self in all beings”" which rejects neither in my interpretation of it. one tree can be seen in the forest but there is also the forest to be seen....

consider evolution to the non-evolutionary: "But consider the Tao, which transcends both finite and infinite. Since the Tao is All and nothing lies outside it, since its multiplicity and unity are identical, when a finite being sheds the illusion of separate existence, he is not lost in the Tao like a dew-drop merging with the sea; by casting off his imaginary limitations, he becomes immeasurable. No longer bound by the worldly categories, 'part' and 'whole', he discoveres that he is coextensive with the Tao. Plunge the finite into the infinite and, though only one remains, the finite, far from being diminished, takes on the stature of infinity." "co-extensive", don't hear that term often

Lord Brahma is a long lived "him" as you well know, while Para-siva is beyond categories and pronouns which are only for conventual like dialogue which I'm also pretty sure you well know, as for the jokers who knows. Anyway kind of along the lines of: "The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name. The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth. The named is the mother of the ten thousand things"..... Yet the word "Tao" is still used for or in conventual like conversation or dialogue

and there is also that beyond Sat-chit-ananda (aka as para-shakti) which in some Saivite schools is called Para-siva ) "Parashiva is the highest aspect of Shiva in Shaiva Siddhanta and in Kashmir Shaivism. Below him are the primordial Shiva with the Parashakti and Sadashiva " People also ask

tough cookies....

um, if something can be obtained then it can also be lost...btw who is this one that sees.....

"nothing new under the sun"

Have you looked into the Upanishads? The "Self" does not have a lifespan, always was always will be, is not made or unmade; thus is not a body, even a great one lasting for long cycles. Anyway various bodies are fine for various realms like you say but still have various life spans.

well if you are asking folks here could suggest a thousand+ things to help with boredom....

Um, there isn't a language called Buddhism right? Anyway take care and maybe later...

"fairly easy" how convenient for the experts. Btw I don't buy into all your Buddhist jargon usage as an end all.

on some of the points, Btw. "non-dual insight' could also be an intellectual projection which most anyone could make...thinking they are enlightened since they have it down intellectually.