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  2. Anybody Home?
     … the grief that there is such a thing as nibbana and you’re not there yet. That he calls a pain not-of-the-flesh, and it’s a pain we should actively cultivate as a way to motivate ourselves in the practice. But we have to go through the step of compassion first, thinking of all beings and how much they’re suffering … 
  3. Right View about Right View
     … Someone once asked Ajaan Maha Boowa whether nibbana is self or not-self, and he replied that nibbana is nibbana. In other words, you have to contemplate self and not-self in order to get there, but once you’ve gotten there, it’s something different entirely. All this relates to two main points that are important in the practice. One is that when … 
  4. New Feeding Habits for the Mind
     … This is what the Buddha meant by nibbana. The word nibbana comes from a fire’s going out. Back in those days they had the conception that fire was trapped by its fuel because it had to keep clinging to the fuel to get its sustenance. But when it went out, it let go of the fuel and was released. It was no longer … 
  5. The Brahmaviharas Are Not Enough
     … that all you have to do is practice the brahmaviharas, and they can take you all the way to nibbana. This interpretation is based primarily on a passage where the Buddha teaches the brahmaviharas to a pair of brahmans, saying that it will lead to union with Brahma. One interpreter says that because the Buddha actually mentions the concept, and because for his listeners … 
  6. Of Essential Worth
     … There was the belief in Bangkok in those days that the time not only for nibbana but also for jhana had passed. There was nobody out there attaining genuine jhana. Anybody who thought they had jhana— to say nothing of nibbana—was just deluded. If you believe that, then it really discourages you. You think that if you were to put in a lot … 
  7. Independent of the World
     … And, of course, the calm, the satisfaction, the sense of peace and security that come with attaining nibbana is the highest noble calm. So we desire these things. But in desiring them, we don’t just wait for them to come at the end of the path. We try to cultivate these qualities as part of our practice all along the way. The discernment … 
  8. Levels of Truth
     … Then there’s the truth of nibbana, which is something beyond the four truths, beyond even that one truth of stress arising, stress passing away—though in nibbana itself there are no right views. As Ajaan Lee says, nibbana has no use for right views or wrong views. It doesn’t need them at that point. It’s the goal, it’s not the … 
  9. Attention with an Agenda
     … As Ajaan Lee once said, “Nibbana is easy. Everything else is hard.” Of course, getting to nibbana isn’t easy. It requires a path that you fabricate. The answer to that question, “How should you fabricate the present moment so that you can develop dispassion for the fabrications?” is: through fabricating the path. That’s the hard part. But when you arrive, it’s … 
  10. Feeding on Open Wounds
     … As the Buddha said, nibbāna is true health. When you think of the health of the body, you realize how precarious it is. But the health of nibbāna is solid and unchanging, because it’s not dependent on anything at all.
  11. Admirable in the Beginning, Middle, & End
     … The same with the consciousness of nibbāna: **It’s **not reflected by anything, but it is a kind of consciousness. Secondly, it’s true. In other words, it doesn’t change. It’s not something fabricated into being that’s going to fall apart when the fabrications fall apart. It’s blissful. And it’s free. In fact, the word nibbāna comes from an … 
  12. You Can’t Clone Awakening
    It may seem incongruous or ironic that here we are, hoping for total release from suffering, stress—the freedom of nibbana—and on the way there, we’re hoping for states of infinite space, infinite consciousness, bliss, rapture, and yet what are we doing? We’re focusing on our breath. We’re sitting here in a posture that may or may not be comfortable … 
  13. Feelings of Unworthiness
     … The only thing that’s final is nibbāna. Think about that: Finality here is ultimate happiness. Up until that point, your judgments are the judgments of a craftsperson. You judge how you’re doing, and if there’s anything you see that you could improve you try to improve it. The purpose of the judgment is not to discourage you, and it’s not … 
  14. Passion for Dispassion
     … Then the Buddha recommends that you delight in what he calls the unafflicted, which is a name for nibbāna. You’re delighting in the that you’re on a path that goes to a place where there is no affliction. You’re not afflicted, you’re not imposing affliction on anyone else. True peace, true well-being. This is why, when you think about … 
  15. Three Perceptions
     … One is to non-returning, where you delight in your taste of nibbana as a dhamma, as an object of the mind. The other is full arahantship, when you go beyond even that kind of delight. It’s precisely at this fork in the road where the analysis of sabbe dhamma anatta — all dhammas are not-self — applies: where you might see nibbana as … 
  16. The Dhamma Wheel
     … You can’t use nibbana to get to nibbana, because nibbana’s not the kind of thing you can use or can get a handle on. You’ve got to make use of what you’ve got, and right view is there to remind you: This is how to use it well. So we hold onto the chariot as the wheel takes us down … 
  17. A Full Life
     … These are two names for nibbana. Our lives have direction, they have a purpose, they have a goal. This is what the Dhamma is all about. As the Buddha said, the taste of all the Dhamma is release— just as the taste of all the water in the oceans is salty, the taste of all the Dhamma is release. They all come together at … 
  18. Success by Approximation
    Success by Approximation September 30, 2013 When the Buddha taught the path, he said it leads to awakening; it leads to nibbana. But he didn’t list awakening or nibbana as one of the factors of the path. The goal is one thing; the path is something else. That’s why he used the image of a path. And unlike the relationship between craving … 
  19. Lust
     … As Ajaan Mun said, nibbana lies outside the four truths. Each of the four truths has a duty, but there’s no duty for nibbana. There’s nothing you do with nibbana. At that point you let everything go. But if you haven’t reached that point, the four noble truths still have their duties. You still have to do these things. You still … 
  20. Why Limit Yourself?
     … Similarly with the belief in the cessation of becoming, which is a synonym for the cessation of suffering, or for nibbana. If you don’t believe that it’s possible, you’re not going to do anything to find it. But if you *do believe it’s possible, then you leave open the possiblity that you might make the effort to find the cessation … 
  21. Deep Time
     … But in the Buddha’s view of universe, there are no beginnings, and no end except nibbana. So in cases of injustice, you can’t say who did what first, or whose response was appropriate or inappropriate to what the other person had done. Things just go back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. As for tragedies, there’s no end to … 
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