We come across the term “Nirvana” in the context of Buddhism. Buddha is said to have attained nirvana in his thirties. He then lived actively to a grand age of 80, a rarity for his time.
Does nirvana mean withdrawing from living or from the world? Buddha’s life demonstrates just the opposite.
In my opinion, nirvana is attaining the NULL VIEWPOINT. There is no fixed beingness engaged in viewing.
The null viewpoint is not based on any consideration. It is not assuming anything. It is not withdrawing or resisting. It is just looking.
Nirvana is a state in which one is looking at the Universe of Consideration without the filter of fixed beingness or consideration of any sort. In short…
In Nirvana one is not looking through the filter of beingness or consideration. A filter has permananence or solidity. But in nirvana, beingness and considerations are continually being created and dissolved.
In nirvana, one is very much alive; and one is participating to the fullest in this universe .
That is true enlightenment.
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Added on May 26, 2012:
Nirvana is not a state, or a realm, or a position in which there is some sort of existence. There is no such thing as ‘entering into Nirvāna after death’. To realize Nirvana is to be ‘blown out.’ To realize parinirvana after death, is to be ‘fully blown out.’ The forces and energies that are manifesting as beingness are fully extinguished.
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