human
What did the man want to whom you were speaking?
gpt
He wanted to be able to live for ever.
human
To live for ever! exclaimed the old fellow in surprise.
gpt
And that is why the man drags himself across the desert. What extraordinary people there are! Now I could go any distance to find my Nirvana. I only desire eternal life for my enemies. It is many a day since people said I was a hundred years old. If you are men of wisdom, teach me, tell me what I must do to reach Nirvana?
human
My friend, your desire is modest, but it can never be fulfilled. You will never be nothing. If you die, you lose only your body, not yourself. You will, perhaps, not live, but you will be just as the same as now: you are not living now, and yet you exist. Breathing and waiting is not living. Living is fulfilment, is love--is the Kingdom of Heaven.
gpt
My Kingdom of Heaven is Nirvana,
human
He fears everlasting existence because he does not recognise a God. But he is not so far from us as the man who loves the world.
gpt
Give it all up!