Does true love exist?

Ultimate true love can’t be exist within a couple or family. But, ultimate true love (it should be compassion) can exist in noble beings.

Why true love can’t be exist within a couple?

Love between a couple is a developed selfish mental factor. If a girl see his boyfriend is doing romantic conversations with another girl, her love does not exit any more. So, it can't be a true love. (But, chastity is exist and treated as a compulsory moral virtue.)

Think about a mother. If her baby hit her or blame her still her love is not decaying. So, mother's love seems a true love. Still this is not an ultimate true love. If another woman's baby blame, she may get bit angry. Mother's love only become true love for her babies.

But, noble beings radiate loving kindness to all beings without any limitation (even to enemies). We can understand how noble being's love(compassion) look like in the 'The Discourse on Loving-kindness'.

A noble beings radiate loving kindness without any limitation such as;

"Whether they are weak or strong, omitting none,

The great or the mighty, medium, short or small,

The seen and the unseen,

Those living near and far away,

Those born and to-be-born —

May all beings be at ease!"

Also, this love is similar as a mother's love, who protect her own baby by putting her life as a second thing. But in the noble being's case this love is spread to all beings not only to a specific people or group. Noble beings don't only think about happiness of this life instant. But, they think about happiness of very long cycle of death and rebirth(Samsara). This life is like a instance when compare to the cycle of rebirth.

Buddhism explains Loving Kindness as a powerful weapon. When a person living with radiating loving kindness, others can't harm him. You may think this as a fantasy. But this really work.

We normally always be in angry with our enemies. Our angry mental powers, allow others to harm us. But, if we truly radiate loving kindness to our enemies, they can't harm us. When we spread loving kindness we receive protection from all directions. There is a nice story to explain this. There was a cow giving milk to her baby calf. Then an hunter shoot an arrow to the cow, but arrow could not reach the cow since her loving kindness to the baby.(This is only an Example. Please don't try this. If the cow is in angry mood or if it don’t have enough loving kindness power, arrow will reach her. But, you can try spreading loving kindness to your enemies.)

I sometimes do loving kindness in direction wise, such as;

"Me and all beings in my front direction; No one may not harm others!, No one may not angry with others!, everyone may wish other's happy. Me and all beings may have ultimate happiness Nirvana"

"Me and all beings in my back direction...."

Similarly; right direction, left direction, front sub direction(if you face to north this is north-east), back sub direction, right sub direction, left sub direction, below direction, up direction. (Also you can do like north, south, east, west,.... But you have to aware about directions and clearly imagine direction and all beings become non harming to each other.)

We can do loving kindness in different ways. Such as, direction wise as above. Also range wise as below;

All beings in New York, all beings in USA, all beings in Earth, all beings in our solar system, all beings in thousandfold world systems, all beings in our galaxy, all beings in the infinite universe.

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If a couple do loving kindness to each other they can live like a God and Goddess. If a employee do loving kindness to his managers and directors he will receive many promotions. If a minister do loving kindness to beings in his district he will receive many votes in an Election. If a president do every action expecting his people's happy and spread loving kindness to his people, he will hold the president post for a long time.

• The Discourse on Loving-kindness
• Discourse on Advantages of Loving-kindness
• Ahina Sutta: By a Snake

How to scientifically prove the existence of Gods?

Let's think about invisible beings (such as spirit, demons or divine beings). To prove scientifically, we have to create an hypothesis which should be able to replicate by scientists and experiments must result the same thing. When scientists find a new kind of animal they have the death body. So other scientist can see the same thing(death body). There is an evidence.

According to the mythical facts invisible beings have a different kind of material (I call those as fine materials) which we can't see. When an invisible being born their body suddenly arise(with a Karmic power) and when they die their body vanish without any evidence. So, there is no scientifically testable thing even in fine materials. So, it is almost impossible to prove them scientifically. But we can make some hypothesis with use psychic powers gain from higher meditation as a tool.

Here is my proposal of scientifically proving existence of higher beings.

Steps;

1)Group of scientists do Samata meditation and get Eight Attainments(Ashta-Samapatti) and Five Supernormal Powers(Pancha-Abhigna) Levels of Meditation.

2)Then this scientists group go to a heavenly world with their psychic powers(and remember their goal without attracting to goddess). They can't just tell that there are heavenly worlds and divine beings. Since they don't have any evidence.

3)With psychic powers extort a diving being.

4)Safely come back to the human world.

5)Make a psychic jail(which other scientist can't see) and put him.

6)Force him to show appearance.

7)Then other scientist have to investigate with all of electromagnetic wave cameras. Have to prove he is not a human magician.

Here is my prediction of what will happen then;

Final conclusion about the experiment.

Some higher meditators claim they can bring a divine being from a heavenly world. But when scientist check those with all possible ways he it just a human magician but having some unusual huge radiations. Next day after the experiment. News from the television. “Huge earthquake happen and lot of humans died. Government ask help from other countries.”

So, you can understand that there is no way to prove it scientifically. Scientific method can't prove every aspect of nature.

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Is rebirth after death scientifically proven?

Buddhism vs. Science

How permanent enlightenment possible?

According to Buddhism, permanent enlightenment (Nirvana) is possible without any reverse back. Also higher meditation levels (Called Jhana), sometime can temporary block defilements and give similar experience as a higher level of enlightenment. But, once he loses his meditation Jhana, he will come back to normal life and he will have mental defilements again. Even if we practice meditation for a long time without knowing ‘Four Noble Truths’ and ‘Three Marks of Existence’ it will just only be a temporary moral virtue and higher mind concentration.

Lord Buddha shows that, there are nine beyond world things ('Nine supermundane things' or Nava-lokuttara-dhamma). So, Permanent enlightenment is possible in four levels since these special kinds of mental consciousnesses. Once after, any one experiences these consciousnesses, he reaches enlightenment permanently in some levels. There are ten fetters (Sanyojana) which living beings tie to the cycle of rebirth. All of ten fetters will completely vanish at the 4th final stage.

Nine super-mundane things ;

• Sotapatti-magga-citta and Sotapatti-phala-citta

When a being experience these two consciousnesses, he become to a Stream-enterer (Sotapanna) who is free from; 

1. Self view or the belief that there is an eternal soul somewhere in an animal. (Sakkaya-Ditti).

2. Doubt about Lord Buddha’s self enlightenment and nine super-mundane things (Vicikicca). 

3. The belief that by performing various rites and rituals one can end all sins and reach eternal happiness. (Silabbata-paramasa).

• Sakadagami-magga-citta and Sakadagami-phala-citta

Become Once-returner (Sakadagami), who has greatly attenuated; 

4. Sensual desire (Kamaraga).

5. Ill will (Patigha).

• Anagami-magga-citta and Anagami-phala-citta

Become Non-returner (Anāgāmi), who is free from sensual desire and ill will.

• Arahatta-magga-citta and Arahatta-phala-citta

Become an Arhant who is free from all fetters. Such as;

6. Craving for prosperity in the material worlds (Rup-raga).

7. Craving for prosperity in the non-material worlds (Arupa-raga).

8. Conceit (Mana). 

9. Restlessness (Uddhacca).

10. Ignorance of reality (Avijja)

• Nirvana

After passed away from the last body his sequence of consciousness reached a permanent happy status called Nirvana.

As the eight factors of the ‘noble eightfold path’ gradually grow over a period of time, at some instant qualities of all eight factors arise in the same consciousness. Only when all the eight factors concurrently arise with anti-defilement power supramundane consciousness can arise.

There are four pairs which we can't separate. If anyone could experience a Magga-citta, he will definitely experience the relevant Phala-citta in the Citta sequence without any delay. When we do a Karma, the result comes with some delay. But for Magga-citta resultant Phala-citta comes instantly. It is said that, if anyone could experience Magga-citta just a moment before the end of world, the entire world ending process will delay till he experiences the Phala-citta. Magga-citta is so powerful it can stop the world ending for an instant.

Magga-citta is the final result of all Threefold Training. When a being practices threefold training his mind become clear and clear about Four Noble Truths. At a good instant he experiences Magga-citta. (This Magga-citta is the 'Antarik Concentration' as in 5th stanza in ‘The Jewel Discourse’.)

For an analogy, think about an aggressive river. It is known that, at a certain portion of deep places of this river, there are four large gems together on the bottom. If a clever person stops the movement of water in that portion of river and cleans, then water becomes calm and transparent. At a good instant he will see that there are four gems, and then all of his doubts vanished. This is the instant he experiences Sotapatti-magga-citta. Aggressive river is the mind with mental defilement. Four gems are Four Noble Truths. Calm water means mind concentration. Clean water means mind without mental defilement.

Also, those who have experienced these supramundane consciousness know that they are already enlightened. But maybe they don’t know the English word of enlightenment. Sometime, they will not be able to explain it with words.

Is the goal of Buddhism freedom?

Yes. Gain freedom from all of sufferings (Vimukthi Sukha).

There are two types of happiness (Sukha). Sensual Happiness(Kama Suka) and Happiness gain by becoming free from sufferings (Vimukthi Sukha or Happiness of freedom).

Ultimate happiness of freedom is Nirvana (or permanent enlightenment). Buddhism describe that this happiness of freedom(Nirvana) is very much valuable than Sensual Happiness. Sensual pleasures are very short and receive from the outside and has lot of disturbance. For a small sensual pleasures ( such as for a good taste of a food), we have to do lot of efforts. Also, to revive a sensual pleasures, we may have to do bad things(Bad Karma) this will arise lot of bad sufferings in the future (according to Karmic lows). Sensual happiness is like a dog try to eat a bone. When a dog bite a bone dog's own blood came and it taste those. Nirvana is permanent. Even for trillions of trillion years it is permanent. If you stayed in worlds for a long time you may have to cry for numerous times such that, if all tears collected it will be more than the amount of water in the sea. But you will face only negligible amount of happiness. Nirvana have no disturbance. Nirvana is not something compounded or exist since a cause. Nirvana receive by removing all causes. That is why Lord Buddha said below as his final words;

"Behold, O monks, this is my last advice to you. All compounded things (which is born, come into being) are subject to decay (So, caused to sufferings). Work hard to gain your own salvation without any delay."

Buddhism says Nirvana (ultimate freedom) has infinite good qualities.