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

Mr Cool

 

The Nirvana Man (Sorry!  For man substitute: PERSON. I apologise if you have taken offence,) has solved his problem, i.e. attained his goal. The heat of the stress (Pali: dukkha) generated by the inner turbulence resulting from the unresolved problem of the Split Man has been extinguished and transformed by him either as a sense of lightness or brightness (i.e. as in enlightenment), or as a whole body-mind surge of joy or rapture.

His pilgrimage to fulfilment, to the experience of complete and utter wholeness, hence perfection, over, the Nirvana Man is a blissful Mr. Cool.

 

However, to avoid cooling down completely, therefore to extinction (Pali: nirodha), the cool Nirvana Man warms up (self-differentiates) again, though in a different way. Whereas as Split Man his internal heat (or dis-stress, Pali: dukkha) burnt him up, now, as Mr Cool he directs his (compassionate) warmth to burn (in the sense that a CD is burnt) others, to transform them, thereby remaining cool and cooling them. By virtue of his own state of perfection (i.e. of @-oneness) he can reconfigure others with his perfect means, thereby helping them achieve their perfection, enlightenment and joy, and thereafter coolness too.

 

In short, before nirvana (i.e. blow-out of stress/heat) there is a Split (i.e. undecided) Man without a singular, hence different creative thrust, that is to say, without a specific unique function, goal or purpose. During nirvana there is neither a man nor a creative thrust, indeed, no function at all. After nirvana there is a creative thrust but no discernable man. After complete extinction of the fire of stress, as in parinirvana) there is neither thrust nor man, (perhaps) just the creative as un-relativised creative potential (elsewhere named the Brahman or God).

 

A picture of Nirvana

 

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