The Noble Truth of the Extinction of Suffering

“We say 'Truth of the Extinction of Suffering’. If a person practices many teachings and the way of nothingness, this is not good. Why is that? Because this annuls all laws and destroys the true storehouse of the Tathagata. Any practice of this category is the practicing of nothingness. Someone who practices (truly) the extinction of suffering acts against what all Tirthikas do. If the practice of nothingness is the truth of extinction, there are Tirthikas who also practice the teaching of nothingness; then we must say that they also possess the truth of extinction. A person says: 'There is the Tathagatagarbha [Buddha-Womb – the pristine mind under the cover of illusion]. One cannot see it. But if one does away with all illusions, one may indeed enter’. It is so. Through the raising of such a mind [that is, by cultivating such an attitude of mind], one gains freedom in all things. If a person practices the Way of the hidden storehouse, selflessness and emptiness, such a person will recycle between birth and death for countless ages to come, and will suffer sorrow. A person who does not do such practices may certainly, although it might have illusions, soon do away with them. Why is that? Because it well knows the undisclosed storehouse of the Tathagata. This is the Noble Truth of the Extinction of Suffering. Any person who practices the extinction in such a way is my disciple. A person who does not practice the Way thus is someone who practices emptiness. This is not the Noble Truth of Extinction.”

Read More on the Nirvana Sutra, Chapter 10 - On the Four Noble Truths.