The Method to Attain Nibbana

One day, a Reverend and a group of monks and nuns were walking across the forest to another village, when they happened to see a very beautiful maiden in her silk gown by a river and it was wet due to the splashes, so obviously her flesh had shown more then it should have. When she saw these monks walking past, she pleaded them to assist her to the other side of the stream. The monks quickly avoided and ignored her, and distanced themselves away hurriedly. The Reverend, who was behind, went up to the fair maiden, picked her up in his arms and carried her over to the other side. The monks and nuns walked in strange, awkward, silence, questioning and whispering quietly among themselves on what the Reverend had done. Not long after the Reverend attained Nibbana. After the incident and many hours later as the Reverend had observed, he asked the monks and nuns,“why is it that you still carry the maiden in your mind while I have discarded the thoughts after I had carried her over the stream?” To attain Nibbana is to detach yourself from it. That is enlightenment which only can one attain thus. To pursue and desire Nibbana is like pursuing happiness. To attain Nibbana, one should be knowing instead pursuing. Same for happiness, knowing it comes from within, then this is true happiness and bliss. Ultimately its emptiness, evanescent and transient.