Nirvana bears no resemblance to anything in your current perceptual field.
We could take all the pleasures that have ever been and will ever be in all the universes and add them up into one experience. If you were absorbed in nirvana, it wouldn’t be noticed.
You are going around on the wheel again and again. You go around and around from lifetime to lifetime. You never quite wake up. Enlightenment is waking up.
We have this recurring dream that we’re human beings, that we have bodies, that we’re in time and space, that there is birth and death. To awaken from the dream of life is to be conscious of eternity.
Liberation means no rebirth. Now, does that mean you don’t reincarnate? Well, you never did reincarnate.
Nirvana is outside the fun house. You are walking around in the fun house forever.
Nirvana is the pure and perfect schness of thatness of being.
Nirvana has nothing do with any of this. None of this is there.
Nirvana is a state of perpetual bliss and ecstasy, unaffected by the transient ups and downs of its own creations.
Somewhere there is an essence. It is not a physical somewhere. There is no sense of world, of time and space. That is nirvana.
At the beginning and the middle and the end of all things, there is only the perfection of enlightenment that is nirvana.
Nothing is distinct and separate. The waves of the ocean arise and have a separate birth, crashing on the shore, but then back into the ocean they go. They never left it. There is no movement in Nirvana.
What we discover is it was not the waves or the birds or the wind that were standing out and being separate from existence; it was we who were standing out and being separate from existence.
There is a still center of the universe. Within that still center are all things, all achievements, all loses, everything and nothing exist there.
All the joys in all the worlds of all beings who have ever been or will ever be, will never equal the perfection of one moment of absorption into the stillness of nirvana.
When your mind is flooded with the pure light of nirvana, which is happiness itself, you will be delighted with whatever occurs to you.
Unlike the transient days of our lives that constantly come and go, nirvana has always been, is now, and always will be.
Only the enlightened are consistently happy. Their happiness is not predicated upon the events and experiences that take place in this world. Instead it is based on the boundless inner energy they gain from their connection with the world of enlightenment.
When you draw from the endless awareness of nirvana, you are no longer a slave to fortune. When pleasant experiences come your way, you can enjoy them. But if pain and misfortune befall you, you can rise above them and remain unaffected.
The attainment of enlightenment makes you happy forever. It frees you from the mental and emotional pains that human beings experience every day. You live in a condition of ecstasy, brightness and joy all of the time.