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The Nirvana Man
The storm
of life is a sheer endless sequence of mini storms, that is to say, of
(survival) problems to be resolved. To resolve them he/she invests energy.
Each time he/she resolves a problem he/she releases the energy he/she had
previously invested in its resolution. That energy, released/liberated as a
rush or surge, is experiened as happines (or joy or bliss and so on; it
actually feels like the rapturous freedom experienced when surfing the edge
of a wave). It’s when (the storm of)
joy fades that nirvana, calmness ensues. If and
when a (indeed, any) storm (read also: turbulence, mental, physical or
emotional) ends or one withdraws from a (i.e. any) storm, that’s when the
zero (≈ 0) state is recovered, meaning that calmness, i.e. nirvana,
‘waits’ before and after a (i.e. any) storm. Sadly the Buddha made an almighty big deal out of a very common
biological experience.* But then, he had resolved a very very
big and powerful problem which resulted in an equally powerful (freedom, joy
and) calmness experience. There are
2 nirvanas. Nirvana 1 happens if and when a local (i.e. relative)(survival)
problem (i.e. a mini storm) is solved. Nirvana 1 is a very common, usually
low intensity experience. It happens a thousand times a day, that is to say,
every time a problem is solved or an obstacle overcome. It can be
deliberately engineered at various intensities by resolving a true or a false
problem suitably tweaked. During nirvana 1 the Nirvana man/woman ‘waits’ @ (a
relative) rest (i.e. on ‘standy by’ or in a relative ‘sleep state’) because
he/she does not respond (or contend). Nirvana
2, called parinirvana, happens
if and when the whole (or absolute) survival problem, as endless sequence of
mini-storms is resolved, that is to say, by death. @ (everyday) nirvana 1 a person (to wit, a
conditioned appearance) has become liberated from a particular world (or indeed,
from relativity, i.e. from an aspect of Samsara). @ Pari-nirvana (nirvana 2)
a person becomes wholly liberated from the (storm) of the world/relativity
(i.e. of Samsara), hence ceases completely as a person though leaving some
(karmic) residue. *... Early Buddhism describes bio- or
gaia-logical transformations. There is in early Buddhism no concept of the
‘spiritual’. Buddhism was not and is not a ‘spiritual path,’ notwithstanding
the verbose nonsense put out by Tibetan Tantrics. |
