The Nirvana Man
or, Mr Cool
Black
Granite, 2.40cms
The Nirvana
Man has
solved his problem. In other words, he’s got awakened (i.e. he ‘knows’
clearly) or
self-realized (i.e. is wholly ‘real’). The
heat
generated from the inner turbulence resulting from his unresolved
problem has been released (or relieved) and transformed by him
either as a sense of lightness or brightness (i.e. enlightenment),
or as a whole body-mind surge of joy or rapture.
Now the
Nirvana Man
(elsewhere called a mukti, elsewhere still, a Saint) is a
blissful Mr. Cool, i.e. because being (almost) @ rest, @ 1, wholly
de-fragmented, i.e. his internal heat almost ‘blown out’.
However, to
avoid cooling down completely, i.e. to death, the wholly focused, hence
stilled, hence cool Nirvana Man heats up
(Self-differentiates) again,
though in a different way. Whereas as Split Man
his internal heat burnt him up,
now, as Mr Cool (i.e. cool because wholly applied to his perfect means
either
to knowledge or to (self-) realization), he directs his heat to burn
others (in
the sense that a CD is burnt), thereby getting rid of it. In other
words, by
virtue of his own state of perfection (i.e. of perfect function
application) he
reconfigures (or initiates) others with his perfect means (i.e. the
four phases of the Jhana meditation (i.e. problem solving) process),
thereby helping them
achieve his, and possibly their perfection (i.e. as awakening or
realization),
and enlightenment and joy, and coolness too.
In short, before nirvana (i.e.
blow-out of the heat of inner turbulence)
there is a Split Man without a singular (hence cool) creative thrust
(i.e.
without a specific function, i.e. as goal or purpose). During nirvana
there is
neither a man nor a creative thrust. After nirvana there is a creative thrust,
but no
man.