Majjhima Nikaya (MN 1: part 2, 2016.06.11) Bhikkhu Bodhi

1 Mūlapariyāya Sutta: The Root of All Things. The Buddha analyses the cognitive processes of four types of individuals-the untaught ordinary person, the disciple in higher training, the arahant, and the Tathāgata. This is one of the deepest and most difficult suttas in the Pali Canon, and it is therefore suggested that the earnest student read it only in a cursory manner on a first reading of the Majjhima Nikāya, returning to it for an in-depth study after completing the entire collection.
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Nibbana = true self. People really need a place or final resting ground that they conceptualize nibbana as a heaven or a final retirement. Or in later Buddhist thoughts, nibbana is construed as "permanent, blissful, a real self and beautiful." A Sikh once told me "The Sikh concept of merger with God is the same as nibbana". Because he has not fully understood. Nibbana = extinguishment (literally) - extinguishment of the false idea of self. Then what is left???? Is this a real self? If anyone says that, he has not fully understood....