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<blockquote data-quote="JayJay" data-source="post: 46150" data-attributes="member: 147"><p><em><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'">The word nirvāṇa means extinction. Nirvāṇa is not a place you can go.</span></span></em></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><em>Nirvāṇa is not in the future. Nirvāṇa is the nature of reality as it is. Nirvāṇa is</em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><em>available in the here and the now. You are already in nirvāṇa. Imagine the</em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><em>wave rising on the surface of the ocean. The wave is made of water, but</em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><em>sometimes it forgets. A wave has a beginning and an end, it goes up and it</em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><em>goes down. It can be higher or lower than other waves, and more or less</em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><em>beautiful than other waves. If the wave is caught by these notions—beginning,</em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><em>ending; coming up, going down; more or less beautiful—it will suffer.</em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><em>But if the wave realizes it is water, it enjoys going up and going down. It</em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><em>enjoys being this wave, and it sees that at the same time it is all the other</em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><em>waves. There’s no discrimination, no fear at all. The wave doesn’t have to go</em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><em>anywhere to look for water in the present moment, the wave is already water.</em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><em>So we don’t have to go and look for nirvāṇa, because nirvāṇa is our true</em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><em>nature—the nature of no beginning and no end, no birth and no death. And</em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><em>like the wave, if we are able to touch our true nature, then we transcend all</em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><em>fear, all anger, all despair, because our suffering is born from these notions:</em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><em>birth and death, being and nonbeing, coming and going, same and different.</em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><em>Nirvāṇa is not the object of our searching, and we do not need to enter</em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><em>nirvāṇa because everything is in nirvāṇa already. Our reality is the reality of</em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><em>no birth and no death. Our reality is the reality of no coming and no going.</em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><em>We are perfectly in nirvāṇa. We have been nirvanized from the non-</em></span></span></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'">beginning.</span></span></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JayJay, post: 46150, member: 147"] [I][SIZE=6][FONT=book antiqua]The word nirvāṇa means extinction. Nirvāṇa is not a place you can go.[/FONT][/SIZE][/I] [SIZE=6][FONT=book antiqua][I]Nirvāṇa is not in the future. Nirvāṇa is the nature of reality as it is. Nirvāṇa is available in the here and the now. You are already in nirvāṇa. Imagine the wave rising on the surface of the ocean. The wave is made of water, but sometimes it forgets. A wave has a beginning and an end, it goes up and it goes down. It can be higher or lower than other waves, and more or less beautiful than other waves. If the wave is caught by these notions—beginning, ending; coming up, going down; more or less beautiful—it will suffer. But if the wave realizes it is water, it enjoys going up and going down. It enjoys being this wave, and it sees that at the same time it is all the other waves. There’s no discrimination, no fear at all. The wave doesn’t have to go anywhere to look for water in the present moment, the wave is already water. So we don’t have to go and look for nirvāṇa, because nirvāṇa is our true nature—the nature of no beginning and no end, no birth and no death. And like the wave, if we are able to touch our true nature, then we transcend all fear, all anger, all despair, because our suffering is born from these notions: birth and death, being and nonbeing, coming and going, same and different. Nirvāṇa is not the object of our searching, and we do not need to enter nirvāṇa because everything is in nirvāṇa already. Our reality is the reality of no birth and no death. Our reality is the reality of no coming and no going. We are perfectly in nirvāṇa. We have been nirvanized from the non-[/I][/FONT][/SIZE] [I][SIZE=6][FONT=book antiqua]beginning.[/FONT][/SIZE][/I] [/QUOTE]
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