1. Nirvana-Annotated Bibliography
In their brief seven year history, Nirvana brought alternative music to the forefront, and helped define a generation of youth left alienated by the baby boom generation.
Nirvana's roots lay in the underground scene of Seattle, in the mid-1980's. The Melvins, based out of Olympia, and the Sonic Youth were early mentors of the band that would later be known as Nirvana. Their first musical incarnation as the Stiff Woodies featured Cobain on drums, Novoselic on bass and whoever happened to be around on guitar. By 1987 they had morphed into Nirvana; Cobain moved to vocals and guitar, and drummer Chad Channing was added. Nirvana soon gained the attention of the Seattle label Sub Pop and their debut album, Bleach, was released in June 1989. Dave Grohl of the Washington, D.C. hardcore band Scream replaced Channing in September 1990. During the summer of 1991 the band opened for Sonic Youth on their European Festival tour. Nirvana's landmark performance at the Reading Festival was featured in the documentary "1991: The Year Punk Broke" and marked the beginning of their worldwide recognition. Ironically, 1991 marked the birth of Nirvanamania and also the beginning of Cobain's mental and physical deterioration. .
The group signed with Geffen Records to record their much anticipated second album, and when Nevermind was released in the fall of 1991, it knocked Michael Jackson's Dangerous off the top of the U.S. album charts. .
The success of the album, which went triple platinum, was fueled by MTV's constant airplay of "Smells Like Teen Spirit." The song was hailed as the anthem of the alienated grunge generation and its appeal broadened the band's fan base to include mainstream jocks, metalheads and alternative wannabes; the very people Nirvana music was supposed to alienate. .
Rumors of Cobain's heroin use were ever-present and as the band grew into a multi-million dollar business, he began to withdraw into his own drug-induced world.
Buddhism is expressed in the four noble truths, which offer us a clear route to salvation and nirvana. ... A number of things must be done in order to achieve this state of nirvana. ... The eradication of all sense of any perception and desire is the path to nirvana. ... Nirvana cannot be specifically explained or understood without reaching such a state. ... Reaching a state of nirvana will only allow a person to become removed from life itself....
Finally it expresses the difference between nirvana and moksha. ... To a Buddha the U of M.U.T. is that of Nirvana. ... Many people want to know if Nirvana is God. ... Nirvana is enlightenment to the utmost. ... Nirvana pertains to the body and Moksha to the soul. ...
The verses guide one on the path to Nirvana, the ultimate goal for all Buddhists. ... The verse reminds use that it is only the truly virtuous, righteous and wise that will have success in finding Nirvana. ... It is important to act now, get onto the path of Nirvana and stay on the path to Nirvana, and become unintoxicated by the world of samsara. ... (7:91) The only place that one will be happy to remain in the same mental place is when they have reach Nirvana. Until that time the mind must push towards that goal, never resting, never swerving from the path that will lead them to N...
Matthew describes something called Nirvana to his mother. ... While a person is experiencing Nirvana, god comes to communicate with you and help you through the difficult process of Nirvana. ... The lower state of Nirvana is actually how reincarnation takes place. ... He explains that Nirvana is home to a billions of people, some from other worlds. ... Matthew explains that reincarnation happens after Nirvana. ...
Siddharta Gautama abandoned his family at the age of twenty-nine to search for a way to bring to an end suffering in the world. He studied meditation with many teachers. At the age of thirty-five, Siddharta Gautama sat down beneath the shade of a tree to meditate, and stayed under it until he re...
The goal of Buddhism is to reach nirvana, the final freeing of the soul from all that enslaves it. ... Buddhism's inspiration and goal is reaching a nirvana, the climax of any existence. ... By definition, a stressful mind is ineligible for achievement of nirvana, and wisdom, because constant anxiety provides for unreasonable thoughts, and, therefore, wrong decisions. ...
Govinda also wants to find Nirvana. ... Siddhartha has Nirvana and Samsara as one. ... Gotama, the Illustrious One says that he has experienced Nirvana. ... Siddhartha tells him that that feeling is Nirvana and Samsara as one. ... Siddhartha found Nirvana. ...
If followed one may achieve true enlightenment, or nirvana. Nirvana is reaching Brahma in one lifetime. ... If you break an area in the Eight Fold Path, then you cannot achieve nirvana. One of the only ways to achieve nirvana in one lifetime is to become a monk. Reaching nirvana is the one true goal of a Buddhist. ...