The Teachings of Ajahn Suchart.
22 May 2026
Monk: Sometimes some people are confused about the difference between nibbāna dhatu and the knowing element. Are they the same thing or are they different?
Tan Ajahn: It’s the knowing element that has achieved nibbāna by purification, by getting rid of the defilements – greed, hate and delusion – through the practice of sīla, samādhi and paññā.
See, we all have this mind which is called the knowing element. But for us all, we still have delusional element – delusion in this knowing element– which causes us to have greed and hatred, which causes us to go after things, which causes us to take rebirth because of our greed or cravings for things.
But someone like the Buddha, through his own wisdom, discovered this truth: that the mind can be purified and can be happy, and it doesn’t have to take rebirth anymore. So this is what the Buddha discovered while he was practicing. He had to find out by himself because no one in this world knew how to do it. So he purified his knowing element and he called this purified knowing element ‘nibbāna.’
Monk: So nibbāna element is the purified knowing element, with no ignorance.
Tan Ajahn: Yeah. No rebirth. It doesn’t take any rebirth anymore in the three realms of existence or in saṁsāra.
“Dhamma in English, Dec 18, 2021.”
By Ajahn Suchart Abhijāto
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