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How to get
to Nirvana
(Created for WIKIHOW) Introduction: Contrary to popular
opinion, nirvana is not a spiritual, religious, mystical, divine, holy,
magical or experience. Nor is getting to nirvana proof of having achieved
adept status in any one or all of the former ‘states’. Ancient tradition has
it that nirvana (Pali: nibbana) means: blown out or extinguished; in
other words, the elimination of the suffering (Pali: dukkha) caused by
the restlessness (resulting in heat) caused ignorance (Pali: avijja) and
which causes desire. Ancient brahmins and buddhists interpreted nirvana to
mean: freed, liberated from (hence stopped, halted or ceased) samsara,
i.e. from endless transmigration via endless births. In modern, science
derived understanding, nirvana is interpreted to mean: freed from (hence
stopped or halted) random motion (i.e. action, i.e. connectivity, i.e. karma),
and which starts up form (or space) and time, hence life. Nirvana
(i.e. cessation of random motion) happens in two ‘qualities’ (or stages),
namely as relative and as absolute, the latter termed pari-(i.e. beyond)
nirvana. Relative (hence with remainder) nirvana happens as a temporary (or
local, hence with form) stop/cessation (i.e. system-in-operation shut-down).
Relative nirvana is an’atta (or an’atman), hence subject to
decay and death. Pari-nirvana ensues with absolute stopping/cessation (i.e.
@ maximum entropy), hence, being without form, time or space (i.e. without
remainder), indeed, without any quality (Pali: khanda) whatsoever, is
not different from atta (or atman ≈ brahman), hence is
deathless, i.e. not subject to decay, suffering and so on.
Steps
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Return to and stop at go/start/birth (i.e. to any (hence relative)
initial state). ·
Wait. As long as you don’t start, i.e. contact/connect (i.e. make
karma) you are in nirvana. ·
Or, advance to stop/end/death (i.e. to any (hence relative) limit/goal,
i.e. end state). ·
Wait. As long as you don’t return (i.e. deconstruct the achieved
limit) you are in nirvana. ·
Or, get stopped (i.e. blocked or crashed) by an alternate start or
stop (i.e. by a relative unit of action, i.e. a bit of karma). ·
Wait. As long as you don’t restart you are in nirvana. ·
Repeat steps 1,3 and 5 absolutely to achieve pari-nirvana. Tips
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The trick is to stop, i.e. to shut down any given process. Waiting
(i.e. non-action, i.e. processing 0’s, i.e. sameness) at Go, Stop or at
sudden death is nirvana. ·
If you don’t have a limit/goal/end/stop to advance to, borrow or
invent one (of n). ·
If you don’t have a hot mess (i.e. an ongoing, unhappy process) to
reduce (i.e. dump) to Go (i.e. the initial state of relative coolness), create
one. Any mess (i.e. any disordered, hence turbulent state) will do. Warning
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Returning to go/start/birth is dangerous if done too quickly. ·
Advancing to stop/end/death is dangerous if done too quickly. ·
Crashing, i.e. sudden death is dangerous, but fun. ·
Getting to nirvana is dangerous since all activity, hence animation,
hence being, stops there. Things you’ll need
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High speed (i.e. subtlety) physical and mental alertness ü
Upgraded self-control |