Samadhi Buddha

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When, after a series of questions about desire, disgust, and serenity, Buddha was asked. “What is the goal, the final meaning of nirvana?” He smiled. There has been a great deal of commentary on that smile, instead of seeing it as a normal reaction to a pointless question. It is what we do when confronted by children’s ‘why’. We smile because no answer is conceivable, because the answer would be even more meaningless than the question. Children admit no limits to anything; they always want to see beyond, to see what there is afterward. But there is no afterward. Nirvana is a limit, the limit. It is liberation, supreme impasse….. ~ Page 174