There are found over internet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana
Excerpt:
Nirvāṇa (Devanagari निर्वाण, Pali: Nibbāna -- Chinese: 涅槃; Pinyin: niè pán), literally "extinction" and/or "extinguishing" (of passion or lust, hatred and delusion). It denotes being free from mind-contaminants such as lust, anger or craving and is thus a state of great inner peace and contentment -- it is the end of suffering, or Dukkha. The Buddha in the Dhammapada says of Nirvana that it is "the highest happiness". It is necessary to note that "the highest happiness" spoken of by Buddha is not the transitory, sense-based happiness of everyday life, but rather an enduring, transcendental happiness integral to the calmness attained through enlightenment.
Nirvana is, further, the abiding of a fully enlightened being (see terms Arhat and Buddha) in pure unobstructed awareness of reality as-it-is. It is accompanied by and synonymous with a state of spiritual awakening (Enlightenment). The Buddha describes the abiding in nirvana as a state of 'deathlessness' (Pali: amata or amaravati) and the "unconditioned" and as the highest spiritual attainment, the natural result that accrues to one who lives a life of virtuous conduct in accordance with Dharma.
Read more at: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dhamma/sacca/sacca3/nibbana.html
2006-08-09 05:38:06
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answered by sidneysee 2
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According to History, Price Siddharta, as was his real name before being the Buddha. Siddharta quietly left the palace and took his chariot to a dence forest. He took off his royal clothes and gave it to a beggar, and he wore the beggars clothes instead. Then at first, for a few days he lived on alms. Then the day finaly came when he decided to find the ultimate truth. At first he practised like common Hindu sages, who used to fast i.e. would never take food during the course of salvation.The one day he became so ill (due to malnutrition) that he could not stand up properly. Then a village girl came and fed him with some food. From that day he realised that the search for truth and being a pure hearted person can never be achieved by fasting.
Many other sages who noticed this said that Siddharta would never achieve his goal if he does not fast. But then after all this struggle, he became the Buddha and proved that fasting would never give a person anything. Then some famous sages invited his to stay in their Ashram (a place where sages live in India). That Ashram had a sacred room where a fire kept burning. The Buddha demanded that he would spend a night there. The other sages refused, beacause any one who would dare to enter the place at night, a serpent would bite him/her. Still the great Buddha insisted to spend the night. The very next day when all the sages saw that the Buddha was alive and perfect, sitting near the fire, they accepted him as their lord.
2006-08-09 05:42:16
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answered by Anonymous
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Experiencing Nirvana will always be different from every individual like one's fingerprint. It could appear as the same light and bliss but the experience can be expressed as awesomely unexplainable.
The difference will lie sometimes and how long did it take one to achieve it or how easy it was for someone to experience it. There are many occassions when one is not expecting it to happen and there is a time someone is thankful to say at last I have come!
2006-08-09 05:37:48
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answered by Rallie Florencio C 7
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Can anything come from nothing? It's all a lie. Keep looking for the truth, and He will find you.
2006-08-09 05:28:59
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answered by Anonymous
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you should be meditating on this question, not expecting Your Answer from others.
2006-08-09 05:29:16
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answered by Anonymous
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