Delighting in Nibbāna: "he has not fully understood"?

[anon35250929]

Hello all.

In MN 1 the Buddha says:

“He perceives Nibbāna as Nibbāna. Having perceived Nibbāna as Nibbāna, he conceives himself as Nibbāna, he conceives himself in Nibbāna, he conceives himself apart from Nibbāna, he conceives Nibbāna to be ‘mine,’ he delights in Nibbāna. Why is that? Because he has not fully understood it, I say.

In which sense is “delight in Nibbāna” ground for criticism?

[DKervick]

One of the great puzzling passages in the suttas.

My interpretation is that, in that list, nibbana is each case taken as the object of some kind of thought, awareness or emotional or affective attitude. But actually attaining nibbana is not the same thing as thinking about nibbana in any way, but instead involves a state of objectless experience, without any intentional object.

Just a guess!

[Sujith]

Ven. Brahmali clarified this here:

Ajahn Sumedho's quote about the Unconditioned

The first part of MN 1 is about how an ordinary person relates the sense of self to a variety of phenomena. It is clear from this description how sticky this sense of self is, in that it will always find something to identify with, even a misconceived version of Nibbāna! This is one reason we have to tread so carefully with how we understand Nibbāna, because most of the time the sense of self will hijack our understanding and lead us astray. And as you rightly point out, no amount of intellectu…

[SarathW1]

The Raft Simile

“Monks, I will teach you the Dhamma compared to a raft, for the purpose of crossing over, not for the purpose of holding onto. Listen & pay close attention. I will speak.”>

https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.022.than.html