# Actual Freedom – Definitions

# Definitions ## Nibbāna; Nirvana; Parinibbāna Nibbāna; Nirvana: The state of the Buddha, the perfectly Enlightened One, is nirvana (Pali: Nibbāna) – an attainment from which one does not return. It is *beyond death*, not caused, not born, not produced; it is beyond all becoming and devoid of all that makes up a human person. There are two kinds of nirvana. One is achieved by the Buddha while still alive, but he remains alive only until the last and most tenuous remains of karma have been expended. When these disappear, the Buddha dies and then enters the nirvana that is not burdened by any karmic residue at all. [emphasis added]. (©1994-2002 Encyclopaedia Britannica). Nirvāṇa: As the unaccented Vedic compound ‘nirvana’ (“nir-” + “vana”) literally means ‘having no wood’⁽⁰¹⁾ (‘nir-’, for ‘nis-’ before vowels and soft consonants, is privative⁽⁰²⁾ and ‘vana’ = “forest”, “wood”, “timber”; hence ‘without wood’, ‘woodless’, ‘unwooded’; ergo ‘without fuel’, ‘fuelless’, ‘unfuelled’), then an ancient etymological basis for the accented ‘nirvāṇa’/ ‘nibbāna’ being defined as the cessation of attraction, aversion & confusion—i.e., the ‘going-out’ of the fires of rāga/ lobha & dosa & moha due to the absence of fuel with the extinguishment of the worldly intoxicants (‘intoxicated with life’) [“kāmāsava & bhavāsava & diṭṭhāsava”] upon the ending of agnosis [“avijjā”] a.k.a. metempirical nescience—can also be traced. It is of assistance in comprehending why the five *fuelled* components constituting personage (i.e., “panc’upādāna-kkhandhā”) are referred to as the five *unfuelled* components constituting personage (i.e., “panc’anupādāna-kkhandhā”) upon awakening/ enlightenment. ⁽⁰¹⁾nirvana (mfn.): having no wood, being out of a wood or in the open country (cf. -vaṇa)⁽*⁾. ~ (ᴍᴍᴡ-sᴇᴅ). ⁽*⁾vana: a forest, wood, grove, thicket (in older language also applied to a single tree); wood, timber; vanā (f.): the piece of wood used for kindling fire by attrition. ~ (ᴍᴍᴡ-sᴇᴅ). ⁽⁰²⁾nir, for nis (q.v.)⁽⁰³⁾. ~ (ᴍᴍᴡ-sᴇᴅ). ⁽⁰³⁾nis: without, destitute of, free from, ‘un-’; cf. nir-artha⁽⁰⁴⁾, nir-mala⁽⁰⁵⁾, &c., before vowels and soft consonants. ~ (ᴍᴍᴡ-sᴇᴅ). ⁽⁰⁴⁾nir-artha: void of wealth, poor. ~ (ᴍᴍᴡ-sᴇᴅ). ⁽⁰⁵⁾nir-mala: spotless, unsullied, clean, pure, shining, resplendent, bright; sinless, virtuous; stainlessness, cleanness, purity. ~ (ᴍᴍᴡ-sᴇᴅ). Parinibbana: [Mr. Ba Khin]: ‘On the termination of their lives the perfected saints, i.e. the Buddhas and arahants, pass into parinibbāna, reaching the end of suffering’ [dukkha]. RETURN TO DEFINITIONS INDEX RICHARD’S HOME PAGE The Third Alternative (Peace On Earth In This Life Time As This Flesh And Blood Body) Here is an actual freedom from the Human Condition, surpassing Spiritual Enlightenment and any other Altered State Of Consciousness, and challenging all philosophy, psychiatry, metaphysics (including quantum physics with its mystic cosmogony), anthropology, sociology ... and any religion along with its paranormal theology. Discarding all of the beliefs that have held humankind in thralldom for aeons, the way has now been discovered that cuts through the ‘Tried and True’ and enables anyone to be, for the first time, a fully free and autonomous individual living in utter peace and tranquillity, beholden to no-one. Richard's Text ©The Actual Freedom Trust: 1997- . All Rights Reserved. Disclaimer and Use Restrictions and Guarantee of Authenticity