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kilesa there’s freedom from defilement, at that time we’re cooled, we live experiencing a
sample, a shot of nibbāna.

If we didn’t have these little samples of nibbāna intervening for a time in our lives we’d be

full of kilesa and hot for every minute of each of the twenty four hours, and every day, then
we’d develop nervous diseases, go insane, perhaps even die.

The times when we’re free from the kilesa, those times represent that nibbāna which
nourishes life, keeps us alive and sane.

We have these little nibbānas happening all the time, but we could make them into full
and complete nibbāna here and now, in this life, that is, we could live in such way that

the defilements don’t arise, thus: defilement arises but we know immediately that it has,
because we have satipaññā to protect us, to destroy, to keep the defilements under control.

Now, we’ll talk about nibbāna here and now, which is something which has brought
me some criticism. As they will: there’s death, there’s birth, a hundred, a thousand, ten
thousand, a hundred thousand times, then there’s nibbāna. Then we come along and
talk about nibbāna here and now, in this life, and they’re angry. But we don’t see how it
conflicts with their interests. They say that we deceive people when we talk about nibbāna

here and now, that we diminish its importance, because then it becomes something easy
to attain, so they object. But that’s alright, we’re not interested in them. We want to
let everyone get benefit from this concept. It’s basic that whenever there’s defilement

present, nibbāna will be absent. Our minds cling to anything as being ‘self,’ when that
happens nibbāna isn’t around. Whenever the mind is free of clinging there’s nibbāna,
immediately.

Those who are free from clinging can parinibbāna immediately, here and now.

Therefore, fight with those things that come to contact the eyes, ears, nose, tongue,
body, and mind, and defeat them, don’t just become their slave, then we won’t be bound

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