What do you think about Ven Thanissaro’s view on Nibbāna?

[josephzizys]

@Sunyo

In my view there is not a “something else” apart from the six senses, so it’s wrong to say that it will not (or ‘no longer’) exist.

This sutta is just the tettralemma rephrased: will exist, will no longer exist, will both exist and no longer exist; will neither exist nor no longer exist.

Its not language dependent, unless that language is first order logic?

There is a “something else”
There is not a “something else”
There both is and is not
There niether is nor is not

ALL of the above positions are wrong view, it says so over and over again here:

TO BE OR NOT TO BE, the undeclared points in the 4 principle Nikayas:

TO BE OR NOT TO BE (or both, or neither) The undeclared points in the 4 principle Nikayas. The undeclared points are a number of questions, typically ten, but sometimes as few as two, as at SN44.10, and sometimes as many as 11, as at AN10.95, and often 4, as at SN12.17. This essay focuses on the standard set of ten, and looks at the differing explanations given for the Buddha’s silence in the different suttas. We first see the undeclared points introduced at DN1 and DN2, where they are used to…

MN72 explains via the categorical mistake of taking “out” as a direction in a discussion of a fire goimg out.

So to say “there is nothing apart from the senses”

Is to say the same as “the fire went out to the west”.