Ajahn Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu

Nothing can cook it up.

This is the highest meaning of viveka.

When the mind has this atami hata, this unconcoctability, then there is perfect solitude.

And solitude on this level

is a synonym for nibbana.

Now the Buddha talked about this atamiyata, both directly and indirectly, in great detail.

But although he spent a great deal of time looking into this matter, it hasn't come down to our ordinary vocabulary

When it comes to ordinary people, they never talk about it.

They never give it any attention.

So we need to bring this into our everyday vocabulary.

We can talk about spiritual equilibrium, unconcoctability, unconditionality.

but there are other words which convey the same relative meaning.

Now I'm sure you've all heard of the words like equilibrium or equanimity, but you've probably never heard them on the highest level.

You've probably never discussed them on the truly spiritual level, which is the mind totally free of positive and negative.

Lots of people talk about balance, but on a relatively low level.

One needs to most of all be interested in spiritual equilibrium that is free from and beyond all positive and negative.

In this way there is genuine solitude

there is true viveka.

It is only in this kind of solitude that there is the resting place for suffering souls.

Whether viveka or nibbana, neither of them have anything to do with death.