In the final part of the Right Knowledge and Right Liberation Workshop, Ajahn Brahmali, Ajahn Sujato and Venerable Sunyo discusses Right Liberation:

Liberation from what exactly?o Defilementso Suffering = the five aggregates = existenceo Liberation in both respects

Liberation and Nibbāna (SN 23.1, SN 1.2)

The meaning of “Nibbāna”

The two types of Nibbāna (Iti 44, Thag 15.2)o Nibbāna at enlightenmento Nibbāna at passing away

Nature of Nibbānao Awakening vs. enlightenmento Only potsherds being left (SN 12.51)o All feelings become cool at the end of life (MN 140)

Anattā: no entity comes to an end, only suffering (MN 72, SN 22.85)

Conceit and enlightenment (MN 140, Ud 1.10)

To help others, aim for enlightenment yourself; get out of the mud (MN 8)

Some say Nibbāna is cessation, others that it is a kind of eternalism; so how do we choose?o We need to zoom out and take a bird’s eye viewo The safe bet: let go of as much as possible. “Nothing is worth holding on to” (MN 37)o The view of cessation of existence is closer to non-clinging (MN 60)

What’s the purpose of extinguishment? (SN 23.1)

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