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because of clinging, then there’ll be nibbāna, freedom from defilement and the natural
coolness of the luminous mind.

The ‘here and now’ nibbāna is like this.

Say that there’s nibbāna here and now and it lessens its value, because then it becomes
something easy to attain, hence they remonstrate, criticize. But that’s all right because

we’re not interested in them, we want everyone to be able to get benefit from nibbāna.

It’s basic that whenever clinging arises, nibbāna is absent. Our minds will cling tightly to
anything as being ‘self,’ whenever that happens nibbāna is gone. When the mind doesn’t
cling to anything nibbāna arises immediately.

One without clinging naturally experiences parinibbāna as regards their feelings right
here and now.

Therefore strive, resist the things which come to impact the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body,
and mind, conquer them, don’t just let them enslave you, be free of the clinging which
binds. When that’s accomplished there’s nibbāna, there’s freedom from defilement and
there’s the natural coolness of the luminous mind.

This is the nibbāna which can be had here and now.

We need to make this a regular part of our lives, because those things which encourage
the arising of the defilements are with us everyday, so eliminating them should become
a regular part of our lives too. Don’t fall into infatuation, into stimulation, into intoxication.

The mind when it’s without kilesa is without clinging and is, at that time, nibbāna too.

Finally we want to add a little more, in that nibbāna is free to all, there’s no charge, the
Buddha said as much, it’s free, which is worth liking: neither nibbāna nor the Buddha

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