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Originally posted by Sarcophagus ↑

more specifically,
what is there when defilements cease?

something?
nothing?
neither something nor nothing?

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Sarcophagus

if defilements had ceased in your mind, you would know what is left

so returning to Buddhism101, for beginners , when the defilements cease, the mind remains. to quote:

Luminous, monks, is the mind. And it is freed from incoming defilements. The well-instructed disciple of the noble ones discerns that as it actually is present, which is why I tell you that — for the well-instructed disciple of the noble ones — there is development of the mind.

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an01/an01.049.than.html

Here a bhikkhu is an arahant, one whose taints are destroyed, the holy life fulfilled, who has done what had to be done, laid down the burden, attained the goal, destroyed the fetters of being, completely released through final knowledge. However, his five sense faculties remain unimpaired, by which he still experiences what is agreeable and disagreeable and feels pleasure and pain. It is the extinction of attachment, hate, and delusion in him that is called the Nibbana-element

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/iti/iti.2.042-049x.irel.html#iti-044

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so when are you going to stop declaring you understand Buddhism, when you, in reality, have no idea?
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