What is Nibbana from Buddha and his Dhamma

What is Nibbana

• Once the Blessed Lord was staying at Shravasti in Anathapindika's Arama where Sariputta was also staying.
• The Lord addressing the Brethren said: " Almsmen, be ye partakers not of the world's goods but of my doctrine; in my compassion for you all I am anxious to ensure this." 
• Thus spoke the Lord, who thereupon rose and passed to his own cell. 
• Sariputta remained behind and the Brethren asked him to explain what is Nibbana. 
• Then Sariputta in reply to the Brethren said: " Brethren, know you that greed is vile, and vile is resentment. 
• " To shed this greed and this resentment, there is the Middle Way which gives us eyes to see and makes us know, leading us on to peace, insight, enlightenment and Nibbana. 
• " What is this Middle Way ? It is naught but the Noble Eight-fold Path of right outlook, right aims, right speech, right action, right means of livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness and right concentration; this. Almsmen is the Middle Way. 
• "Yes, sirs; anger is vile and malevolence is vile, envy and jealousy are vile, niggardliness and avarice are vile, hypocrisy and deceit and arrogance are vile, inflation is vile, and indolence is vile. 
• " For the shedding of inflation and indolence there is the Middle Way—giving us eyes to see, making us know, and leading us on to peace, insight, enlightenment. 
• " Nibbana which is naught but that Noble Eight-fold Path." 
• Thus spoke the reverend Sariputta—glad at heart, the Almsmen rejoiced at what he had said.