Getting Your Head Around the Goal
October 20, 2023
I know a lot of people who complain that they can’t get their heads around what it would be like to be awakened, what nibbana is like. But we have to remember that that’s not the duty with regard to nibbana. We’re not here to get our heads around it. We’re here to realize it. The word for realizing, in Pali, saccikaroti, basically means to verify, to witness. In other words, our goal here is to have a direct experience. We do that by following the path
