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Nirvana is within us


I am often asked about Nirvana, how "one" could reach it, what to
do to get there?


My answer, that Nirvana is already in us, in ourselves, that
disturbs people, more than it helps you, the concept of "Nirvana"
unsettles people.


Whoever lives in the now and in the present, wants nothing and
wants nothing, is happy without a wish, so to speak, rests in his
mere existence, trusts in his fate and his karma, is already in
Nirvana.


The flowers on the balcony, do they worry if we will water them
tomorrow?


The birds in the garden, do they worry if there will be enough to
eat tomorrow?


Your cat, does it worry about tomorrow?


No, only we humans worry about such things. All day long we
worry, we nurse our fears, our ego drives us crazy, we develop
neuroses, depressions, alcohol and drug problems, human behavior
moves away from Nirvana, not towards it.


So it will be nothing, neither with Nirvana, nor with the
"enlightenment" to strive for according to Buddha.


According to the teacher of all teachers, the human existence is
only about reaching Nirvana, and about the "enlightenment" to
strive for, otherwise about NOTHING.


And it is also not about tomorrow, but about the now and the
here, right now is the right time to enter Nirvana, what tomorrow
is, who knows?


Whoever stops worrying right now, whoever starts accepting his
fate without reservations right now, whoever understands the
philosophy of Buddha and allows the consequences, enters Nirvana
right now, at this moment.


A life without worries, without need, without fear, in harmony
with the universe, deeply and thoroughly entrenched in the
Buddha's worldview, this is the Nirvana that all people talk
about, but of which they have no idea.


How the individual person reaches his Nirvana, that is completely
different, never one journey resembles another, how the person
concerned reaches the realization may be completely different;
the Nirvana however is for all travelers then simply
unbelievable, peaceful and quiet, far away from all time, without
country and without direction, colorless, but full of colors,
homely and pleasant, but without order, filled with love, but
loveless in the construction.


Not everyone will manage the step into the Nirvana today, perhaps
he/she still needs a little time to detach himself/herself from
all attachments first slowly, to look at the bodily things once
again to realize then nevertheless that he/she will lose all
things and every human being anyway one beautiful day, that
he/she therefore better already enters the Nirvana exactly now,
not only tomorrow.


Nevertheless, the way is the goal!





Nobody saves us, except ourselves. Nobody can and nobody must. We
have to go the way ourselves


- Buddha - honorary name of the Indian philosopher Siddhartha
Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero





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