"It is impossible to define nibbana through concepts, because words discriminate while the nature of nibbana transcends dualities.
Many Buddhist teachers agree that nibbana refers to a latent element within human experience that can be discovered and experienced. It is unconditioned in the sense that it is not subject to arising and passing based on other, prior conditions. The direct realization of this unconditioned element has the power to end craving and suffering. This is the goal of the Buddha's teaching and of our practice. We will take nibbana to mean both this latent unconditioned element and the end of suffering, which is the goal of the path.
The six senses cease to manifest anything, so there is no sense of a body or even of mind states.
What is being realized in this moment is only the unconditioned element, nibbana, which is not of the six senses and cannot be known by the six sense consciousnesses. This is a moment of enlightenment. The great Zen master Dogen referred to this experience as 'dropping off body and mind'.
Enlightenment experiences are described as having no awareness present at all or having the presence of an awareness that is not based in the six senses."
Many Buddhist teachers agree that nibbana refers to a latent element within human experience that can be discovered and experienced. It is unconditioned in the sense that it is not subject to arising and passing based on other, prior conditions. The direct realization of this unconditioned element has the power to end craving and suffering. This is the goal of the Buddha's teaching and of our practice. We will take nibbana to mean both this latent unconditioned element and the end of suffering, which is the goal of the path.
The six senses cease to manifest anything, so there is no sense of a body or even of mind states.
What is being realized in this moment is only the unconditioned element, nibbana, which is not of the six senses and cannot be known by the six sense consciousnesses. This is a moment of enlightenment. The great Zen master Dogen referred to this experience as 'dropping off body and mind'.
Enlightenment experiences are described as having no awareness present at all or having the presence of an awareness that is not based in the six senses."
Emptiness: a practical guide for meditators
