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Nibbāna

complete cooling, letting go of everything, deathless, freedom from calamity, the non-disintegrating; lit. blowing away

quenching

going out

forestless

desireless, without craving

Nibbāna

extinguishment, unbinding

Nibbāna

MA understands “Nibbāna" here to refer to the five kinds of “supreme Nibbāna here and now" included among the sixty-two wrong views of the Brahmajāla Sutta, that is, Nibbāna identified with the full enjoyment of sense pleasures or with the four jhānas. Enjoying this state, or yearning for it, he conceives it with craving. Priding himself on attaining it, he conceives it with conceit. Holding this imaginary Nibbāna to be permanent, etc., he conceives it with views