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Arhatship - Nirvana
In the earliest records of the Buddha’s teachings, the Buddha spoke of an ultimate state of awakening by those who realized Nirvana, undetectable by all ordinary states of perception.
Nirvana is a state beyond which those who are awakened are able to describe with words.
Any description of it is like a finger pointing to the moon. For the benefit of unenlightened beings, it is taken to be the absence of desire, absence of worldly form and absence of formlessness that arise and die in the cycle of samsara existence. Nirvana is "unborn, unoriginated, uncreated, unformed. If the unborn, uncreated, unformed did not exist, escape from the world of the born, created and formed would not be possible."
Though it is hard for us to understand this awakening state of mind, the Buddha would not have spoken of Nirvana if it were not attainable. Nirvana is there. The Buddha’s life and teaching show us the way.
In short, cessation of suffering comes not from getting something, but from transcending the desire for anything and the extinction of self-inherent existence that are in themselves a living Nirvana. At death, this "no-inherent self" cannot be reborn. This was exemplified in the worldly life of the Buddha which was in itself Nirvana. At his passing away, he entered into pari-Nirvana (supreme Awakening known as anuttara samyak sambodhi).
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Pilobolus Dance Theatre "Shadowland"
Pilobolus Dance Theatre "Shadowland"
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