Nibbāna is cessation

Khuddaka Nikāya

4. Nibbānavagga

Nirodhanibbānapañha

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4. Extinguishment

Nibbāna is cessation

Khuddaka Nikāya

4. Nibbānavagga

Nirodhanibbānapañha

Ruta suttaMil 3.4.8Sutta PiṭakaKhuddaka NikāyaMilindapañha3. Milindapañha4. NibbānavaggaNirodhanibbānapañha

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PTS cs 6 The king said: ‘Is cessation Nirvāna ?

‘Yes, your Majesty’ PTS vp Pali 69 .

‘How is, that, Nāgasena?’

‘All foolish individuals, O king, take pleasure in PTS vp En 107 The senses and in the objects of sense, find delight in them, continue to cleave to them. Hence are they carried down by that flood (of human passions), they are not set free from birth, old age, and death, from grief, lamentation, pain, sorrow, and despair—they are not set free, I say, from suffering. But the wise, O king, the disciple of the noble ones, neither takes pleasure in those things, nor finds delight in them, nor continues cleaving to them. And inasmuch as he does not, in him craving ceases, and by the cessation of craving grasping ceases, and by the cessation of grasping becoming ceases, and when becoming has ceased birth ceases, and with its cessation birth, old age, and death, grief, lamentation, pain, sorrow, and despair cease to exist. Thus is the cessation brought about, the end of all that aggregation of pain. Thus is it that cessation is Nirvāṇa.’

‘Very good, Nāgasena!’

8. Nirodhanibbānapañha

Rājā āha—“bhante nāgasena, nirodho nibbānan”ti? “Āma, mahārāja, nirodho nibbānan”ti. “Kathaṁ, bhante nāgasena, nirodho nibbānan”ti? “Sabbe bālaputhujjanā kho, mahārāja, ajjhattikabāhire āyatane abhinandanti abhivadanti ajjhosāya tiṭṭhanti, te tena sotena vuyhanti, na parimuccanti jātiyā jarāya maraṇena sokena paridevena dukkhehi domanassehi upāyāsehi ‘na parimuccanti dukkhasmā’ti vadāmi. Sutavā ca kho, mahārāja, ariyasāvako ajjhattikabāhire āyatane nābhinandati nābhivadati nājjhosāya tiṭṭhati, tassa taṁ anabhinandato anabhivadato anajjhosāya tiṭṭhato taṇhā nirujjhati, taṇhānirodhā upādānanirodho, upādānanirodhā bhavanirodho, bhavanirodhā jātinirodho, jātinirodhā jarāmaraṇaṁ sokaparidevadukkhadomanassupāyāsā nirujjhanti, evametassa kevalassa dukkhakkhandhassa nirodho hoti, evaṁ kho, mahārāja, nirodho nibbānan”ti.

Rājā āha—

“bhante nāgasena, nirodho nibbānan”ti?

“Āma, mahārāja, nirodho nibbānan”ti.

“Kathaṁ, bhante nāgasena, nirodho nibbānan”ti?

“Sabbe bālaputhujjanā kho, mahārāja, ajjhattikabāhire āyatane abhinandanti abhivadanti ajjhosāya tiṭṭhanti, te tena sotena vuyhanti, na parimuccanti jātiyā jarāya maraṇena sokena paridevena dukkhehi domanassehi upāyāsehi ‘na parimuccanti dukkhasmā’ti vadāmi.

Sutavā ca kho, mahārāja, ariyasāvako ajjhattikabāhire āyatane nābhinandati nābhivadati nājjhosāya tiṭṭhati, tassa taṁ anabhinandato anabhivadato anajjhosāya tiṭṭhato taṇhā nirujjhati, taṇhānirodhā upādānanirodho, upādānanirodhā bhavanirodho, bhavanirodhā jātinirodho, jātinirodhā jarāmaraṇaṁ sokaparidevadukkhadomanassupāyāsā nirujjhanti, evametassa kevalassa dukkhakkhandhassa nirodho hoti, evaṁ kho, mahārāja, nirodho nibbānan”ti.

“Kallosi, bhante nāgasenā”ti.

Nirodhanibbānapañho aṭṭhamo.