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16 questions linked to/from How does stream entry occur?
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Does being in a commited married life make it impossible to attain Nirvana? If not, how can one progress towards Nirvana?
Married life is a form of attachment. If one is in a commited relationship he/she is bound to have a multitude of attachments like a wife, children, personal belongings, wealth etc. But Buddha has ...
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Is Nibbana a state of mind or an element (dhamma)?
I have four parts of this question,
Is Nibbana a state of mind or a dhamma?
If Nibbana is a state of mind, is it merely the uprooting of craving?
If the answer for the second question is "Yes", then ...
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Enlightenment vs nibbana/nirvana
What is the difference between enlightenment/awakening and nibbana/nirvana? And how do these terms relate to parinibbana/parinirvana?
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Stream winner reborn as human
If someone enters the stream and becomes a sotapanna (stream winner), then he would have at most, seven lifetimes left. What the stream is, is defined in this answer as:
This noble eightfold path — ...
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What prevents us from attaining Nibbana?
What prevents us from attaining Nibbana?
Is it the ignorance or the craving?
So, what should we focus on, in order to attain Nibbana?
Is it uprooting the craving or uprooting the ignorance?
Because ...
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How does Enlightenment feel like
Finally everyone who meditate comes to a single point "Enlightenment". So anybody have any idea about how the enlightenment feels like. How it helps a man. How their mind works and reacts to the ...
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How to achieve consciousness in nirvana?
If achieving “nirvana” means that we will be liberated from the illusion of consciousness, how then will we know (be conscious of) our achieving this “nirvana”? How can we be “conscious” of this, if “...
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Does Nibbana mean not self?
I have found a text which states that
nibbāna is a description meaning not-self.
The meaning of the text is clear. Nibbana is nothing but not-self.
Moreover I have also found a sutta(SN22.45) ...
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How to get to know the state of mind
How to get to know mind has reached sakadagami state or still in sotapanna?During meditation experience no thoughts and Feel like clear emptiness. Reached clear darkness with peace of mind and there ...
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Are there different types of enlightenment?
I came across this article by Jack Kornfield in which he says that it is better to talk about enlightenments, since there are different versions of it. (So, this is not about different levels of ...
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Doubting the quick attainments of the Mahasi Tradition
I have noticed that a lot of Mahasi practitioners seem to reach sotopanna very quickly.
What is the difference from other methods of Buddhist Meditation and the Mahasi Method, relative to the apparent ...
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Do thoughts influence everything? Or is this an illusion?
What does Buddhism think about/or is it accepted in it that we influence everything with our (un)conscious thoughts and emotions and impressions (because these are also some form off thoughts right?) ...
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Eradication of identity view is a cause or effect of stream entry?
I am asking this question due to this answer.
Is the removal of identity view (sakkāya-diṭṭhi) required before stream entry can be attained? Or would identity view be removed only with the ...
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Is there any way to decipher sensations in the body during Vipassana?
Can we know what kind of Samskars are being eradicated from the kind of sensation? Like while doing Vipassana I feel cooling or stretched sensation on forehead; itching on throat; burning & ...
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When the obstacles are abandoned does one experience dharma everywhere?
When I first started to think of encouraging myself on the path I imagined that when I reach the moment of cessation that I would see and experience dharma in an all pervading way " omniscient " is ...
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