Is nirvana a process?
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Nirvana cannot be a process because this would make Nirvana 'conditioned'.
Nirvana is a state (dhamma; ṭhānaṃ) or a sense object/base (ayatana; Udana 8.1).
There is, bhikkhus, that base (ayatana) where there is no earth, no water, no fire, no air; no base consisting of the infinity of space, no base consisting of the infinity of consciousness, no base consisting of nothingness, no base consisting of neither-perception-nor-non-perception; neither this world nor another world nor both; neither sun nor moon. Here, bhikkhus, I say there is no coming, no going, no staying, no deceasing, no uprising. Not fixed, not movable, it has no support. Just this is the end of suffering. Ud 8.1
'This Dhamma that I have attained is deep, hard to see, hard to realize, peaceful, refined, beyond the scope of conjecture, subtle, to-be-experienced by the wise. But this generation delights in attachment, is excited by attachment, enjoys attachment. For a generation delighting in attachment, excited by attachment, enjoying attachment, this/that conditionality & dependent co-arising are hard to see. This state (ṭhānaṃ), too, is hard to see: the calming of all fabrications, the relinquishment of all acquisitions, the ending of craving; dispassion; cessation; Nibbana. MN 26
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