Nirvana

• Gautama:
  • "Where there is nothing; where naught is grasped, there is the Isle of No-Beyond. Nirvana do I call it -- the utter extinction of aging and dying."

• • "There is, monks, an unborn -- unbecome -- unmade -- unfabricated. If there were not that unborn -- unbecome -- unmade -- unfabricated, there would not be the case that emancipation from the born -- become -- made -- fabricated would be discerned. But precisely because there is an unborn -- unbecome -- unmade -- unfabricated, emancipation from the born -- become -- made -- fabricated is discerned." [Udana VIII.3]

• Sutta Nipāta, tr. Rune Johansson:
  • accī yathā vātavegena khitto atthaṁ paleti na upeti sankhaṁ evaṁ muni nāmakāyā kimutto atthaṁ paleti na upeti sankhaṁ
  • atthan gatassa na pamāṇam atthi ynea naṁ vajju taṁ tassan atthi sabbesu dhammesu samūhatesu samūhatā vādapathāpi sabbe Like a flame that has been blown out by a strong wind goes to rest and cannot be defined, just so the sage who is freed from name and body goes to rest and cannot be defined. For him who has gone to rest there is no measure by means of which one could describe him; that is not for him. When all (dharmas) have gone, all signs of recognition have also gone.

• Nagarjuna

• Paramita

• Moksha

• enlightenment

• Satori

• Buddhism

• More excerpts from the Pali Tripitaka defining Nibbana:

• Jon Kabit-Zin, "Wherever You Go, There You Are"