How to get to Nirvana

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Introduction 1. Contrary to popular opinion, nirvana is not a spiritual, religious, mystical, divine, holy, magical or experience. Nor is getting to nirvana proof of having achieved adept status in any one or all of the former ‘states’. Ancient tradition has it that nirvana (Pali: nibbana) means: blown out or extinguished; in other words, the elimination of the suffering (Pali: dukkha) caused by the restlessness (resulting in heat) caused ignorance (Pali: avijja) and which causes desire. Ancient brahmins and buddhists interpreted nirvana to mean: freed, liberated from (hence stopped, halted or ceased) samsara, i.e. from endless transmigration via endless births. 2. In modern, science derived understanding, nirvana is interpreted to mean: freed from (hence stopped or halted) random motion (i.e. action, i.e. connectivity, i.e. karma), and which starts up form (or space) and time, hence life. Nirvana (i.e. cessation of random motion) happens in two ‘qualities’ (or stages), namely as relative and as absolute, the latter termed pari-(i.e. beyond) nirvana. Relative (hence with remainder) nirvana happens as a temporary (or local, hence with form) stop/cessation (i.e. system-in-operation shut-down). Relative nirvana is an’atta (or an’atman), hence subject to decay and death. Pari-nirvana ensues with absolute stopping/cessation (i.e. @ maximum entropy), hence, being without form, time or space (i.e. without remainder), indeed, without any quality (Pali: khanda) whatsoever, is not different from atta (or atman ≈ brahman), hence is deathless, i.e. not subject to decay, suffering and so on.	1. Spiritual entertainers, i.e. buddhas, gurus, mystics, priests have made and still make a big deal about getting to Nirvana, claiming it’s the be all and end all (of Samsara). Making a big deal is good for business and keeps the pilgrims (or devotees) out of mischief. 2. Nirvana simply means: operation (or process) shut-down/cessation, therefore @ rest.^1 Perfect (i.e. @100%) nirvana simply means: perfect rest (i.e. @ maximum entropy, hence zero temperature). There’s nothing more to it. 2.1 … @Rest (hence in nirvana) per se has no value/quality, save for the restless, and they only want to tarry before they rush off, i.e. connect, and thereby come to life (i.e. awaken) again. Indeed rest (i.e. Nirvana) has neither realness nor identity, hence consciousness. Consequently, think again before you want to go and stay there.
Step 1 Return to and stop at go/start/birth (i.e. to any (hence relative) initial state).	1. For go/start/birth read: (pre-active) initial state (set or setting). Relative to the current state (i.e. of disorder, hence turbulence/heat), returning to a particular initial state status (or condition/quality), means: returning to (a relative) @ max. entropy, i.e. all disorder (hence turbulence (i.e. heat), animation, life) is eliminated (i.e. dead). If the initial state ‘waits’ as a virtual fact, hence as a whole identifiable unit or quantum, then it resulted from a completed Step 2, hence presents as a relative go/gtart/birth. 2. Returning to a relative go/start/birth (i.e. to a particular initial state setting) is extremely difficult to achieve intentionally and systematically. 3. The consciousness state associated with a relative go/start/birth rest state is (relative) ‘choiceless (hence potential) alertness’ (or ‘awareness’).
Step 2 Wait. As long as you don’t start, i.e. contact/connect (i.e. make karma) you are in nirvana.	For ‘wait’ interpret: process 0’s, i.e. sameness. As long as 0’s rather than 1’s are processing start-up is prevented. Start-up (i.e. life) begins with initial contact with a (i.e. any) 1.
Step 3 Or, advance to stop/end/death (i.e. to any (hence relative) limit/goal, i.e. end state).	For stop/end/death interpret: end (i.e. closed, stopped, finished, dead) state. An end state ‘waits’ (i.e. no-longer-active, hence @ rest, hence ‘frozen’ or solid, i.e. in ‘osis’) @ max. negentropy, i.e. as a fully ordered (i.e. integrated) system presenting, albeit virtually, at the (connection) power of 1 (i.e. as a random @1).
Step 4 Wait. As long as you don’t return (i.e. deconstruct the achieved limit) you are in nirvana.	See Step 2
Step 5 Or, get stopped (i.e. blocked or crashed) by an alternate start or stop (i.e. by a relative unit of action, i.e. a bit of karma).	A living system (or process) is stopped dead (i.e. forced into nirvana) by external or internal touch, contact, connection. It’s the easiest way to nirvana, and which is achieved countless times every minute, hour, day, albeit below the normal consciousness threshold. In short, getting stopped (via sudden death) means being involuntarily quantised (or unitised, or digitised as a whole 1), hence forced into @rest/waiting status. Moreover, getting stopped dead makes that which is stopped (or those parts that are stopped) absolutely real. In contrast to the Stop states of steps 1 & 3, this stopping is real whereas stopping via steps 1 & 3 produces merely virtual waiting, i.e. a relative nirvana.
Step 6 Wait. As long as you don’t restart you are in nirvana.	See step 2
Step 7 Repeat steps 1,3 and 5 absolutely to achieve pari-nirvana.	Pari-nirvana happens when your whole universe (i.e. samsara, i.e. as recurring birthing, i.e. self-generating) comes to a final end in absolute maximum entropy.
Tips The trick is to stop, i.e. to shut down any given process. Waiting (i.e. non-action, i.e. processing 0’s, i.e. sameness) at Go, Stop or at sudden death is nirvana. If you don’t have a limit/goal/end/stop to advance to, borrow or invent one (of n). If you don’t have a hot mess (i.e. an ongoing, unhappy process) to reduce (i.e. dump) to Go (i.e. the initial state of relative coolness), create one. Any mess (i.e. any disordered, hence turbulent state) will do.	1. Despite what mathematicians claim, stopping (i.e. halting) is easy to achieve. All you need do is create a limit (i.e. or end, i.e. goal), then reach (or fulfil) it to create a virtual stop and rest in Nirvana. By touching (i.e. reality testing) it you create an actual stop and which also results in momentary nirvana. If you can’t do that, then simply wait until someone (i.e. a random event) touches you. At touch/contact (hence karma), those parts of you that are touched automatically stop, and at the ‘speed’ of c, then restart. 2. Producing nirvana either by means of perfect order (hence @ max negentropy) or by eliminating all disorder (See Patanjali’s 2^nd Yoga sutra), thereby achieving @max. entropy is extremely difficult and uses up a lot of energy. However, if you do succeed in reaching nirvana by either means, thereby creating a whole (hence logic) random unit, then touch or collide your (now random) unit with another (i.e. random) unit, then you implode and achieve a moment of total enlightenment, i.e. the Great Enlightenment, the sudden, uncontrollable and totally overwhelming release of all invested energy. 3. If you’ve got a hot and painful mess that’s keeping you from achieving the coolness of nirvana, then the simplest way is to dump, i.e. let go (or store) the mess.
Warning: Returning to go/start/birth is dangerous if done too quickly. Advancing to stop/end/death is dangerous if done too quickly. Crashing, i.e. sudden death is dangerous, but fun. Getting to nirvana is dangerous since all activity, hence animation, hence being, stops there.	Life, and consciousness, indeed being awakened (i.e. being a buddha), happens between Start (nirvana) and Stop (nirvana). In short, life (Sanskrit: samsara, the apparently endless series of connections displaying as life) results from turbulence (i.e. series connectivity). By returning, advancing or crashing to Stop you shut down life. Consequently, if you decide to opt for shutdown, because only contact after shutdown (and when you wait in nirvana) will make you real and free (i.e. with @max. connectivity or energy capacity set free), and because action between Start and End leaves you neither real nor free, you have to sacrifice (i.e. end) your current (active, hence uncertain) state. In short, if you truly want to be real and free, you have to die to your current state. In other words, if you now experience yourself as only half real and half free/energised (and to which you respond with varying degrees of unhappiness), you have to shut down (either by reverting or advancing, or by getting blocked/crashed) and be restarted in order to experience full (i.e. perfect) realness, i.e. realization, full (i.e. perfect) awakening (i.e. self-consciousness) and perfect freedom/liberation/emancipation.
Thing’s you’ll need High speed (i.e. subtlety) physical and mental alertness Upgraded self-control	In Buddhist terms, you’ll need a high degree of adeptness at sati (i.e. alertness) and vipassana, i.e. the capacity to compress and abstract the most basic ‘arising and cessation’ information in order to generate insight.

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