NIBBĀNA
The state that supervenes when
ignorance and craving have been uprooted is called Nibbāna (Sanskrit, Nirvana).
Nibbāna is described precisely as
"profound, hard to see and hard to understand, unattainable by mere
reasoning”. Nibbāna is merely the
destruction of defilements. Nibbāna cannot be perceived by those who live in
lust and hate, but it can be seen with the arising of spiritual vision, and in
the depths of meditation, the disciple can attain the destruction of the
taints.
The Buddha does not devote many words
to a philosophical definition of Nibbāna. One reason is that Nibbāna, being
unconditioned, transcendent, and supramundane, does not easily lend itself to
definition in terms of concepts that are inescapably tied to the conditioned,
manifest, and mundane.
Another
is that the Buddha's objective is leading beings to release from suffering, and
thus his principal approach to the characterization of Nibbāna is to inspire
the incentive to attain it and to show what must be done to accomplish this. To
show Nibbāna as desirable, as the aim of striving, he describes it as the
highest bliss, as the supreme state of sublime peace, as the ageless,
deathless, and sorrow less. Above all, Nibbāna
is the cessation of suffering, and for those who seek an end to suffering such
a designation is enough to beckon them towards the path.
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Greetings
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100 years old wooden monastery chauntha Beach
The pagoda in the Beach
The pagoda in the Island at Chauntha Beach
