First, I want to apologize for the light posting lately. I am still under the weather but getting better.
This week many Mahayana Buddhists will be commemorating the Buddha's death and entry into complete or final Nirvana.
How do you understand Nirvana? You may have heard that the Sanskrit word nirvana (nibbana in Pali) means "to extinguish," as in extinguishing a fire, but some sources also translate it as "to unbind." In the culture of the historical Buddha it was believed the element fire is always present, but it only burns when it attaches to fuel. Extinguishing the fire unbinds it from the fuel and sets it free.
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