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make any financial demands. Just be careful, don’t let upādāna arise, that in itself will be
nibbāna. It’s not difficult, not impossible, it doesn’t cost anything, and can be achieved
before death occurs.

So I’m saying something else new when I say that to die before dying is nibbāna. But I heard
this from old people, who it was I forget. It’s connected with the saying that happiness is
in the heart, hell in the mind. The old folk weren’t joking when they said that heaven is in
the heart, hell in the mind, but it’s not the hell which is underground somewhere, or that

heaven which is up in the sky, it’s in the ‘me,’ ‘me,’ ‘me,’ the ‘me’ that’s born in many ways
every day, let that die before the body dies and gets put into a coffin, right here and now
before the body dies, let the clinging to ‘me’ and ‘mine’ come to an end, that itself will be
nibbāna.

Nibbāna is about ‘dying’ before death, ‘dying’ here and now.

And it’s all free, if anyone still doesn’t want this, well, how foolish is that?

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