The Nirvana Man
Mr Cool.
Has achieved liberation, enlightenment and realisation and now waits in blissful coolnsess, to wit, stress free.The Nirvana Man

Mr Cool = R I P

 

 

The Nirvana Man is blissfully at ease. He is calm, therefore cool.

 

He has cooled down by extinguishing the heat generated by the turmoil within and without.

 

He has attained his supreme goal – of quiessence –  by detaching (from the distress of his inner or outer world).

 

He has extinguished (i.e. as in nirvana) the heat within by removing the heat’s cause, namely an unresolved problem.*

 

 

Nirvana (read: zero stress = zero heat) ensues when the inner fire that results from not-@-1 status ( not-atta ≈ not as inherent nature or essence) is extinguished. The Nirvana Man ‘waits’ @ (a relative) rest (or relaxation) because he does not respond (or contend).

 

@ (everyday) Nirvana (No’s 2 & 3)  a person has temporarily become liberated from the world (to wit, Samsara). @ Pari-Nirvana (No 1) a person becomes wholly liberated, hence ceases completely as a person.

 

*... In the Sakya Buddha’s case the problem was distress, its origin and the means to its elimination.  

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