"Merit leading to Nibbana is rare to achieve. Among all merits leading to Nibbana, Vipassana meditation is the closest. Yet, compared to the general population, very few people can practice Vipassana. It often takes considerable encouragement just to get someone to practice Vipassana. Some even need persuasion just to listen to Dhamma talks. Some, despite having the potential for attaining Noble Path and Fruition, require extensive encouragement.
Take Queen Khema, King Bimbisara's chief consort - she needed indirect persuasion just to visit Veluvana monastery. Yet once she inevitably reached the Buddha, she was ready - attaining Arahantship after hearing just one discourse. Similarly, Kala, son of Anathapindika, despite being the son of the monastery's main benefactor, needed his father's clever persuasion to visit the monastery.
Nibbana is not merely the cessation of mind and matter. Some think it's just nothingness, a useless state. But this is incorrect. It is the real state of cessation, the object of Path Knowledge, Fruition Knowledge, and Reviewing Knowledge. It is something that Buddhas, Arahants, and Noble Ones directly experience.
If there were no Nibbana as the cessation of defilements, kamma, and resultant aggregates of suffering, no one could end suffering. Defilements would persist, creating more kamma, leading to endless cycles of rebirth and suffering. However, through Arahant Path Knowledge, defilements cease, kamma can no longer bear fruit, and the cycle of rebirth ends. This cessation is real, as evidenced by the final Nibbana of the Buddha and Arahants. Therefore, Nibbana, as the object of Path Knowledge, Fruition Knowledge, and Reviewing Knowledge, exists as an ultimate reality."
Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu"
Sao Dhammasami @ Bhikkhu Indasoma
Siridantamahapalaka/Author/Researcher
BA(Q,UDE),M.A(Literature), M.A(Pali),Ph.D (Candidate),
Dip in Social Work (Yangon University),Certified FCTOT Trainer(American Center),
Certified Master Trainer (European International University,Paris),Consultant Trainer of SCORE(Switzerland Geneva)
Certificate in International Mediator (IBSC),Certified Counselling Psychologist.
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