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Are there different kinds of nirvana?

Nirvana is not a collection of types; it is the single, timeless drop of release, while samadhi is the ripeness that allows the fruit to fall.

— Osho
According to Osho, there are no kinds of nirvana; the release happens in a single, timeless drop, like a ripe fruit falling. What differs are the preparatory stages: an inner emptiness (Zhinmai), intermittent illuminations (satori), and the sunrise-like steadiness of samadhi. Samadhi is ripeness; nirvana is the falling—beyond gradations, beyond types.

No, nirvana isn’t in different versions; it’s one drop, but we ripen through stages—feeling inner emptiness, getting brief flashes, then steady dawn—until it happens.

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