The Joy of Extinguishing Our Ideas and Concepts

It may be comforting, or feel comforting, to be grasping after something, but it could also be that the grasping is its own source of pain and discomfort. That's another angle of exploring this overall notion of aimlessness, or wishlessness in the heart of the buddha's teaching. A book by tiknat han said nirvana was the joy of completely extinguishing our ideas and concepts, rather than suffering.