Thanks for your response, Raivo…
Understood, but the problem I have with this understanding is that we are still dealing with some sort of goal. We talk of ‘letting go’ or renunciation …and that there is nothing to attain (like the Self of the Vedantins or whatever version of a future utopia one prefers). Yet we ‘let go’ in order to get to nibbana. We can play with words and say it isn’t an attainment. But though there is a discrepancy, we still want to ‘get’ nibbana.
Yes, this can be categorized as a wholesome goal (chanda) and yes, you are right, what we ‘want’ is to get rid of our’selves’…no self. It may be freedom from suffering but the ultimate result seems rather similar to annihilation.
I am no doubt phrasing things wrongly. Maybe someone has the appropriate tune up or rectification.