I believe the real self lives eternally in what Thich Nhat Hanh calls the ultimate dimension. The real of everything simply is, while the form that 'is' takes comes and goes. I accept the notion that I have been nirvanized since the very nonbeginning. Nirvanized is what is aside from all the forms and definitions that are attached. Nirvanized is what's left once all forms, physical and mental, are gone. What is always was and always will be. 'Is' is outside past and future, outside beginning and end. I've touched many moments with some amount of awareness. At the level of nirvanized, there is only one moment, and I touch it sometimes with some awareness. When I live one moment deeply, what helps me be there is knowing that is all that is real, knowing nirvanized exists, and knowing there is only present.
On Jan 29, 2022 David Doane wrote :