Nirvana is Peace . . . but what is Nirvana?

Bob Thurman talks about how Nirvana can not be ’somewhere else’ - if it was a place seperate from the world it would become a ‘relative phenomenon’ - relative to the world. The truth is that we are existing already in Nirvana. The Buddha said that Nirvana is peace. We can take this to the conclusion that things, as they are, are peace. This helps to balance out the mistaken idea that peace is some sort of separation from our day to day lives.

Since we habitually experience this peace, this vast, beginnningless, endless, eternal, blissful, totally sufficient peace, we misunderstand it as a struggle, stress, frustrating, not perfect, needing something. You know - something is bothersome about it. That’s why Buddha tells us we’re deluded.

Listen to Bob . . .