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The goal of the Buddhist path. Can refer to liberation, awakening or the end of suffering but is generally understood as being indescribable to an unenlightened being.
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Enlightenment vs nibbana/nirvana
Enlightenment, or Bodhi, refers to coming to a direct realization of the truth. … Nibbana is the timeless state of perfect peace and happiness which occurs as a result of attaining Enlightenment, and it will occur immediately after attaining any of the four stages of enlightenment, …
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How does the Buddha attain nirvana?
There are some differences of opinion between the different schools on this kind of thing. First of all, the Theravada school doesn't accept the idea that the Buddha has knowledge of everything (which …
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What is the Distinction Between Knowledge of The Path and the Fruit?
Knowledge of the path is simply the first realization of Nibbana as one of the particular kinds of Aryas. In other words, the first time a person experiences Nibbana as a Sotapanna, Sakadagamin, Anaga …
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What dietary practices are most helpful for reaching enlightenment?
In some of the Suttas in which the Buddha describes the gradual training leading to enlightenment there is the following stock passage:
"Now, when a disciple of the noble ones is consummate in virtue …
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Is it possible to become UNenlightened?
No, an Arahant cannot become unenlightened. Does that mean that an Arahant will automatically be free from illnesses that affect the mind? I don't think so. They will always be free from the three unw …
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Is there any extreme of physical pain that a fully enlightened person would find unpleasant ...
Although an Arahat would not have any mental pain arising with physical pain, that doesn't mean that everything would be just fine. Arahats could still find it burdensome, for example, in that it is c …
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3 deliverance 8 liberations and stages of enlightenment
the Pali Canon as interpreted by the Commentaries and the Visuddhimagga) the three deliverance just refer to which of the three characteristics is the most prominently contemplated the mind to attain enlightenment …
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Virtue of monk and lay ariya
According to SN 55.7:
"There is the case where a disciple of the noble ones reflects thus:
'I love life and don't love death. I love happiness and abhor pain.
Now if I — loving life and not lo …
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What are the differences of Phala Samapatti between each stage of sainthood?
The fruition consciousnesses are classified as being resultant consciousnesses (vipākacittāni) so they differ based on what the wholesome consciousness produce them, so the difference between the frui …
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Can advances in neuroscience help attain enlightenment? Will it make Buddhist traditions obs...
Enlightenment isn't a peaceful state of mind. …
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Can you gain stream entry by focusing on the clinging and stress going on at the five clingi...
Yes. Meditating on the five aggregates and seeing the three characteristics of impermanence, stress, and non-self, leads all the way to Arahatship. In the words of the Anattalakhana Sutta:
"What d …
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Was the Buddha an arahant?
The definition of a Sammasambuddha is someone who attains enlightenment without a teacher and teaches the Dhamma to others. …
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Questions from 21-st century's Milinda
mean that I never was.
3) One should be concerned about Nirvana because it is not some sort of prize after death, but a reality that is fully realizable in the here and now.
4) One should strive for enlightenment …
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