Nirvana

:For the band, see Nirvana (band) and other meanings see Nirvana (disambiguation).

Quotations

• Gautama:
• "Where there is nothing; where naught is grasped, there is the Isle of No-Beyond. Nirvana do I call it -- the utter extinction of aging and dying."
• "There is, monks, an unborn -- unbecome -- unmade -- unfabricated. If there were not that unborn -- unbecome -- unmade -- unfabricated, there would not be the case that emancipation from the born -- become -- made -- fabricated would be discerned. But precisely because there is an unborn -- unbecome -- unmade -- unfabricated, emancipation from the born -- become -- made -- fabricated is discerned."
• Sutta Nipāta, tr. Rune Johansson:
• accī yathā vātavegena khitto
  atthaṁ paleti na upeti sankhaṁ
  evaṁ muni nāmakāyā kimutto
  atthaṁ paleti na upeti sankhaṁ
• atthan gatassa na pamāṇam atthi
  ynea naṁ vajju taṁ tassan atthi
  sabbesu dhammesu samūhatesu
  samūhatā vādapathāpi sabbe
  
  Like a flame that has been blown out by a strong wind goes to rest and cannot be defined, just so the sage who is freed from name and body goes to rest and cannot be defined.
  For him who has gone to rest there is no measure by means of which one could describe him; that is not for him. When all (dharmas) have gone, all signs of recognition have also gone.