Stages of the Path
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Both the stages of insight leading to stream winning and the stages of enlightenment from stream entry to arahantship.
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Take a mendicant who declares enlightenment: ‘I understand: “Rebirth is ended, the spiritual journey has been completed, what had to be done has been done, there is no return to any state of existence.”’ You should neither approve nor dismiss that mendicant’s statement. Rather, you should question them…
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Now on that occasion the following pernicious view had arisen in a bhikkhu named Yamaka: “As I understand the Dhamma taught by the Blessed One, a bhikkhu whose taints are destroyed is annihilated and perishes with the breakup of the body and does not exist after death.”
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… mendicants, gaining these four continents is not worth a sixteenth part of gaining these four things.
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The Buddha outlines the possible destinies for an anāgāmī.
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There are these nine people who, dying with something left over, are exempt from hell, the animal realm, and the ghost realm.
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For Māra’s stream is breasted now
And nullified, its reeds removed;
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Friends, even though a noble disciple has abandoned the five lower fetters, still, in relation to the five aggregates subject to clinging, there lingers in him a residual conceit ‘I am,’ a desire ‘I am,’ an underlying tendency ‘I am’ that has not yet been uprooted.
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When there is still more to be done, this venerable stopped half-way after achieving some insignificant distinction. But stopping half-way means decline in the teaching and training proclaimed by the Realized One.
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… four streams of merit, streams of the wholesome, nutriments of happiness—heavenly, ripening in happiness, conducive to heaven…
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Mahānāma, when a noble disciple has reached the fruit and understood the instructions they frequently practice this kind of meditation.
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The Buddha distinguishes between “dependently originated phenomena”—the twelve factors—and “dependent origination”—the principle of conditionality.
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A noble disciple has eliminated the fear that comes from breaking precepts, possesses the four factors of stream-entry, and understands dependent origination.
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… though I have clearly seen as it really is with correct wisdom, ‘Nibbāna is the cessation of existence,’ I am not an arahant
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… freed by not grasping: they are well freed. Those who are well freed are consummate ones. For consummate ones, there is no cycle of rebirths to be found.
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… they do not look up at the face of another ascetic or brahmin, thinking: ‘This worthy is surely one who really knows, who really sees.’ For what reason? Because, bhikkhus, they have clearly seen the Four Noble Truths.
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The Buddha tells Ānanda how an Ariya can attain the so-called “ninth jhāna” by recalling the qualities of nibbāna.
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… the one who is extinguished without extra effort, the one who is extinguished with extra effort, and the one who heads upstream..
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… could a bhikkhu obtain such a state of concentration that he would have no I-making, mine-making, and underlying tendency to conceit…?
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Does convergence come first, or knowledge?
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The eight powers of a perfected one.
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someone who has gained a footing
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One who truly understand these five aggregates is a stream-enterer.
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… body and mind are impermanent, decaying, and perishing. Someone who has faith and confidence in these teachings is called a follower by faith.
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Bhikkhus, just as a pot that has been turned upside down gives up its water and does not take it back…
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… when that bhikkhu is developing and cultivating the Noble Eightfold Path, it is impossible that he will give up the training and return to the lower life.
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One who understands the origin, the passing, the gratification, the danger, and the escape regarding the five faculties is a stream-enterer.
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In the same way, a noble disciple has experiential confidence in the Buddha…
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A monk reports that the Buddha said that increasingly high levels of attainment are increasingly rare.
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… all fixation is annihilated,
and the mass of darkness destroyed.
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