Advanced Thai Conversation (Nibbana Topic) : When 'Nibbana' appears Because we know 'nibbana' clearly in our mind, death or the feeling that we have to die simply cannot penetrate the enlightened mind. Therefore, we may say that in the realm of 'nibbana', no death or suffering can enter because both are just a matter of 'sangkhara' or 'conditioned things' which belong to the mundane world. As for 'nibbana' , it transcends the mundane world. Hence the mundane things cannot be mixed up with the supermundane things (just like a block of ice cannot exist in a pot of boiling water or to put it in another way, the water simply will not boil in a pail of ice). Thus 'nibbana' is what extinguishes all the 'sankhara'. Ignorance or knowing wrongly is condition of the lacking of right knowledge and it leads to the wrong conception of having a 'self' or and individual 'self', and thus ...
