'Reification' is making something real, bringing something into being or making something concrete. The Pali suttas say about the relationship between consciousness and wisdom/enlightenment: > *Discernment (wisdom; panna) & consciousness are conjoined, friend, not disjoined. It's not possible, having separated them one from the > other, to delineate the difference between them. For what one > discerns, that one cognizes. What one cognizes, that one discerns. MN > 43* Is the Enlightenment or Wisdom of a Buddha a Reification?

New to the idea of getting external help, too. I have several questions about this path after read this Q&A: - https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/15535/new-to-buddhism - https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/17540/how-to-get-to-nirvana What attracted me to buddhism was - Meditation: Practice it many times on Padmasana because I thought that was the unique meditation form. Then I knew I can meditate over a skateboard, too. - Mindfulness: Dreaming about achieving it. - Hatha Yoga: Practiced it many times. - Ninjutsu: Practiced it several months on Bujinkan Dojo school (not a recommendation to go there). The concepts I got from Japanese culture were great though. They are attached to Buddhism but I think they misimpreted the message. - Kriya yoga: Autobiography of a yogi. Some of my greater achievements: - Leave drugs - Leave alcohol - Became vegan - Practiced a lot in the non-attachment in objects and people too. These questions are general, mine are more precise. Please be open minded about my questions, they are very real. - *Was Buddha an artist of our times?* **Edit:** I know a lot of teachers, I don't know any monks I can remember. - What's special about Buddha? - Why should someone follow him? - I see this like being someone else. Is this a bad concept about Buddhism? - Why he has *in fist sight* all the answers? - I read that is some kind of comparison about Buddhism schools and Cristians religions, but I learned that Buddhism is not a religion but a lifestyle. Is it or not? - About Yin and Yang, is that part of Buddhism? - The 12 universal laws are part of Buddhism? That's all for the moment. Oh, I forgot, the most important one: About this little part of me you could read, is there a school recommendation? Thanks for reading.

I've noticed that we have a tag on the site for New Age Buddhism which has a couple of questions associated with it (one more now I've asked this!). What is New Age Buddhism though. Can anyone give a reasonable concise definition of it, maybe point to some links for more detail and give a few teachers that follow or expound this line of Buddhism. Does it have anything that uniquely differentiates it from other forms of Buddhism. Or it is a not genuine concept at all?

I've been practicing it and it seems to work well. It seems that I can explain this in terms of nash equilibrium. I tend to see it that all of us are already physically able to achieve much and paying attention to some topic will subconsciously allow us to manifest what we want. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_attraction_(New_Thought) Buddhism teaches that there are laws that govern human nature. There are laws of living objects. There are laws of karma. Is the law of attraction one such law? By the way, I tend to see Buddhism as a way to understand life instead of as a religion. I am not Buddhist but I see that there is some truth in what Buddha taught. So that's my background.

Mahayana or Theravada, or any other offshoot. Is a Buddha an exception? Or a personification?

Very respectfully,i am very much new to this community but have always been interested in Buddhism. I know some people who are Buddhist and they often talk about being one with the universe or being the part of it, literally. How does that work? I mean are we born from universe and when we say the word "universe", what exactly do we mean?

I read a view on the internet that Samskara in Pratītyasamutpāda a cohesive collection of memories or imprints. Is this view or idea taught in the Pali Suttas? If so, please provide some quotes?

I read on the Internet that Experience (Vijnana) which is really nothing but reification of Recognition (or Interpretation) of new observations in terms of internalized old observations. Is this view or idea taught in the Pali Suttas? If so, please provide some quotes? > *Reification is making something real, bringing something into being, or making something concrete.*