Nirvana

The conversation about niravana in class today was very interesting to me. Last semester I took a philosophy class called problems of good and evil in which we spent a large chunk of the time discussing Buddhism and I think it would be helpful to define what nirvana is because some people seemed confused as to the definition. Nirvana, as far as my understanding is, is a realm in which one is simply being, peacefully, but there is no happiness in it or no joy etc, happiness is an emotion which satisfies us only temporarily, so opposed to looking for that which makes us happy aka that which we desire and eventually recieve one is to look for peace and nuetrality. With nuetrality of course comes a lack of suffering