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THE ATLAS OF THE EMPTY THRONE

Nirvāṇa · the blowing out

nirvāṇa
nature
A fire-metaphor: extinguished, blown out — what happens to a flame when the fuel is withdrawn. Not annihilation and not a place; the burning of craving, aversion and confusion simply stops, and what remains the texts decline to describe, since every description would be another handhold.

The goal — and the least similar goal to tikkun olam anywhere on this bench.
rhymes with
sephirahketer
whyThe summit thread, and the least comfortable one in the pack: the Tree's summit is a crown and a completion; this one is a fire going out. Mahāyāna complicates its own half — Nāgārjuna says saṃsāra and nirvāṇa are not different, and the bodhisattva stays.
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nirvana · nibbana · cessation · extinguishing
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