Nirvana

Is there an experience referred to as Nirvana? Is it viewed as an attainment of the higher self? Buddha has referred to Nirvana as consciousness of the unconditioned. Yet it must be understood that if one views Nirvana as an accomplishment, then it is only a projection of belief which is desire. It is an illusion of the self absorbed to seek out a Nirvanic experience. The conditioned mind seeks and what it seeks is a formulation of the content of that conditioning. There must first be a realization of freedom that is the negation of all that is self motivation. Whatever is born of the self is the self. The unconditioned is the outcome of the dissipation of the self which is formulating and concluding. The key is understanding that is not the result of thoughts desire to become. Whatever one does to create a cause and effect relationship will only further the image of self and will do nothing to enhance ones realization of the true self (Buddha Nature).

Mind complicates and confuses what is the simplicity of freedom. One must be vulnerable to life so that the flower of the unknown can offer its fragrance as the realization of the unconditioned.
The mind that is consumed with the angst of tomorrow as the projection of yesterday can never realize the peace of the absolute moment. The conditioned mind is yesterday with all its accumulated opinions and conclusions. It can only project because it is caught in the movement of time as the self which is seeking. What it seeks is its own creation, the phantom of a mind that dwells within the conflict of the known.

Nirvana as definition as a state of mind or of the mindless is the folly of the self absorbed. One can only negate and in that negation is the realization of freedom. Freedom sets the stage for that which cannot be sought out, that is not the result of meditation or any other systematic formulation. Whatever you seek will not be Nirvana but only the content of your own mind. It cannot be named or become an experience. It is only in the absolute moment when all else is not. It is when the self is not. It is all that there is, all else is the illusion of the self as thoughts continuity.