Nirvana/Catalogs

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.' [Udana VIII.3]


 * Sutta Nip&#257;ta, tr. Rune Johansson:
 * acc&#299; yath&#257; v&#257;tavegena khitto attha&#7745; paleti na upeti sankha&#7745; eva&#7745; muni n&#257;mak&#257;y&#257; kimutto attha&#7745; paleti na upeti sankha&#7745;
 * atthan gatassa na pam&#257;&#7751;am atthi ynea na&#7745; vajju ta&#7745; tassan atthi sabbesu dhammesu sam&#363;hatesu sam&#363;hat&#257; v&#257;dapath&#257;pi 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.