Thanks Lal,
I once read that the example of a flame was in India a well-known example or simile of an agitated state. I also think this is a very beautiful simile. A flame is, as it were, trying to escape the wood, but it is imprisoned, bounded to that wood. You see its fettered state. It is not free and very agitated it seems in its attempts to escape.
Nibbana is not the exstinguishing of this fire or flame, but it is seen as the state where the flame becomes free from the wood.
Something like this you also seem to say (at least i understood it that way). You say…” Thus an Arahant will not be reborn in “this material world” of 31 realms (see “The Grand Unified Theory of Dhamma”), i.e., one attains Parinibbana. He/she is simply “gone” from “this world” of 31 realms”.
“The suffering stops permanently. The mind become PERMANENTLY pure and be detached permanently from any type of physical body, dense or fine”.
So, maybe i understand this wrong, but i understood this in the sense that the mind survives parinibbana and will after death not find any physical, body, dense or fine. So the mind becomes totally free. That’s what i read.
But, apparantly that is not what you mean with above statement? all ends? Nothing remains after Parinibbana, like an extinguished fire?
By the way, I read the links you recommand, but i have ofcourse my own understanding of Buddha-Dhamma too. The translatons i use or post are not mine. I cannot Judge your translations are right, but i have trust in your work.
Siebe