Buddha in Nirvana

Nirvana Westerners dislike Nirvana whose meaning is extinction, not knowing Buddha is teaching the eternal by extinquishing our ego. Surely something is better than nothing, so our lives are spent getting more & more— bigger cars, bigger houses. "To be enlightened" Wang Yang Ming tells us "we must reduce our selfish desires— having less & less— purifying our mind like gold. When gravity overcomes momentum of the Big Bang, the universe shrinks to a point of no dimension where everything becomes unmanifest— no need to wait billions of years for this to happen as we experience Emptiness each night when asleep. Wei Wu Wei says "Pure Consciousness is the non-being of deep sleep... The Void is not a black abyss, but Mind Itself is the Void." Paul Brunton writes "Unmanifest is the ultimate reality"— background of all creation like silence before the music, blank canvas before the painting, empty page before the poem— Buddha awakens our mind to the Void that is Nirvana.     — Peter Y. Chou         Mountain View, 10-13-2020