Nirvana : It this an apt explanation ?

Apt. = Apartment

They must have been on drugs when they wrote that.

That is a mish-mash of all sorts of New Age stuff . .mostly taken from Hinduism's yoga.

The entire piece is a bunch of garbage.

All these meditation "experiences" ... the Buddhist monks will tell you they have nothing to do with achieving enightement .. they are just distractions and you should try to ignore them if they happen to you.

It is all very simple. There is nothing metaphysical about it.

When you have retrained your mind to focus on THIS moment instead of running all over the place, and to focus on everything that is happening and relaxing into regardless of whether or not you LIKE what is happening ....

when you focus more on compassion for others than you do on yourself ...

THEN you have attained Nirvana.

Nirvana is a head space .. HUGE amount of effort and time, done properly, to achieve Nirvana.

One short quote, one long quote:

SHORT

“Everything is always changing. If you relax into this truth, that is Enlightenment. If you resist, this is samsara (suffering).”

Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse, “What Makes You (Not) a Buddhist”

LONG:

“Vipassana meditation teaches us how to scrutinize our own perceptual processes with great precision. We learn to watch the arising of thought and perception with a feeling of serene detachment. We learn to view our own reactions to stimuli with calm and clarity. We begin to see ourselves reacting without getting caught up in the reactions themselves. The obsessive nature of thought slowly dies. We can still get married. We can still step out of path of the truck. But we don’t need to go through hell over either one.

This escape from the obsessive nature of thought produces a whole new view of reality. It is a complete paradigm shift, a total change in the perceptual mechanism. It brings with it the feeling of peace and rightness, a new zest for living, and a sense of completeness to every activity. Because of these advantages, Buddhism views this way of looking at things as a correct view of life and Buddhist texts call it seeing things as they really are.

Vipassana meditation is a set of training procedures which open us gradually to this new view of reality as it truly is. Along with this new view of reality goes a new view of that most central aspect of reality: ‘me’. A close inspection reveals that we have done the same thing to ‘me’ that we have done to all other perceptions. We have taken a flowing vortex of thought, feeling and sensation and we have solidified that into a mental construct. Then we have stuck a label onto it, ‘me’. And forever after we treat it as if it were a static and enduring entity. We view it as a thing separate from all other things. We pinch ourselves off from the rest of that process of eternal change which is the universe. And then we grieve over how lonely we feel. We ignore our inherent connectedness to all other beings and we decide that ‘I’ have to get more for “me”; then we marvel at how greedy and insensitive human beings are. And on it goes. Every evil deed, every example of heartlessness in the world stems directly from this false sense of ‘me’ as distinct from all else that is out there.

Explode the illusion of that one concept and your whole universe changes. Don’t expect to do this overnight though. You spent your whole life building up that concept, reinforcing it with every thought, word, and deed over all those years. It is not going to evaporate instantly. But it will pass if you give it enough time and enough attention. Vipassana meditation is a process by which it is dissolved. Little by little you chip away at it just by watching it.”

(“Mindfulness in Plain English” by Venerable H. Gunaratana Mahayhera ... Theravadan Buddhism)

No, it's not. Something smells off about it. It smells like teen spirit.