Expound: Unbounded

The hardest insight
To come by,
The pinnacle of all,
Or so I humbly suggest,

Is that everything
Is Nirvana
And so,
Even suffering is Nirvana,

Not suffering is Nirvana,
All the conditioned phenomena
That are classified
As being suffering,

These too are Nirvana,
The very aches and pains,
Frustrations and irritations
That we so dislike,

All of these too
Are nothing but
Nirvana itself
But it’s so difficult to fathom,

Particularly,
When one is in it,
Up to the chin
In dire circumstances,

This is the great and tricky feat,
To be overwhelmed,
All sanity overturned,
Every moment excruciatingly upended,

To yearn for relief
And yet to see even in this yearning,
The truth of release,
The ultimate understanding,
That this too is ‘it!’