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The 3
(traditional) Buddhist Nibbānas
Three
nibbānas (i.e. nirvanas) are mentioned in the Buddhist Theravada canon.
Two in Ittivutakasutta (44)
and 1 in the Parinibbānasutta. 1. Nibbāna 1 (i.e.
relative nibbana) is attained in this life. It is either of short duration or
life-long. The persona (i.e. an ‘emerged
phenomenon’ 1 hence sans
‘inherent existence’, so the Heart Sutra)
who attains Nibbāna 1 is one ‘who has exhausted the taints, who has
lived out the life, done what was to be
done, laid down the burden, reached the highest goal, destroyed the
fetters of being, and who is completely liberated
through final knowledge. His five sense-faculties remain, owing to the presence of which he still
encounters the agreeable and
disagreeable, still experiences the pleasant and painful. 2. Nibbāna 2 is attained in this life
if and when a persona (i.e. an emerged phenomenan)1 who has
lived out the life…. and is completely liberated through final knowledge. All
in him that is felt will, since he does not relish it, become cool here in
this very life: this is called the element of Nibbāna without result of
past clinging left.” 3. Nibbāna 2 (absolute
nibbana) happens when a person who as achieved Nibbāna 2 dies, becomes wholly
extinct (= unborn, since karmic residue and the life drivers have been eliminated),
therefore cannot be reborn. Whether or not the ‘emerged phenomenon’ that
finally ends in/at Nirvana 3, hence as unborn, can respond to its achievement
with bliss is a matter of belief (not fact). Some Buddhists refuse to comment
on the parameters, if any, of Nibbāna 3. Others claim that Nirvana 3 is ‘A Land of
Bliss’. Absolute Nibbana
happens when a person (i.e. a state of conditions) disintegrates (i.e. dies @
maximum entropy)…. Or is never born! Then absolute coolness, zero
temperature happens. The ‘life’ of a samskara ≈ an
‘emerged phenomenon’ ≈ a persona
1.
“Yan kiñci samudayadhamman sabban tan nirodhadhammanti.” = “Whatever arises due to conditions ceases when the conditions (for its arising) cease.” Vin.Mv. 1:6 Etymology of the word nirvanaTurning a fiction into a fact |
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