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Yes, nirvana is the termination (i.e. permanent cessation or uprooting of) craving (i.e. passion, aggression and delusion).

It is certainly not the same as a temporary state of stillness, which is a shamatha state of calm-abiding. Nirvana can only be achieved when both calm-abiding, PLUS insight (by far the most crucial factor) into the nature of reality, are cultivated in tandem to uproot the defilements. Therefore Buddhist meditation is not about cultivation of stillness only, but more importantly the cultivation of wisdom and awareness.

Therefore vipassana/vipasyana meditation, or insight meditation, is aimed at contemplating and realizing impermanence/anicca, unsatisfactoriness/dukkha, non-self/no-self/anatta/anatman, and emptiness (of inherent existence) or shunyata... in real time experience. Meaning it is not a conceptual analysis but seeing these characteristics in moment to moment sensations. These insights lead to unbinding.


Taiyaki: that description does not sound anything close to a PCE.

Here is what the Buddha himself said in the Pali scriptures - that Right View is the forerunner of the noble eightfold path.

See http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dhamma/sacca/sacca4/samma-ditthi/index.html

p.s. with Right View, the rest should follow swiftly and simultaneously because you will act out or practice in accordance with that right view, imo.

Without Right View, one's practice can hardly be called the 'noble eightfold path'.