Is nibbana similar to annihilation?

[Pasanna]

@Pasanna

This seems like a large detour from the op but one worth a thread if one hasn’t been created.

I’ll hand this over to Ajahn Brahmali.

Mind in the Thai Forest Tradition

This could end up being a very long discussion, and I don’t really feel like entering into that. But I will make a couple of minor comments. From my point of view, these very expressions are misleading. They don’t really refer to anything in the Pali. “Deathless”, for instance, is supposed to be a translation of amata. Mata means dead and the a is a negative prefix. A common use of such prefixes is as a privative, that is, to show the absence of the term they are associated with. Amata should …