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Sakkāya-Ditthi and Self-View
In my understanding, there is no controversy here at all. The explanation can be very simple:
Before stream-entry, someone can think: "I am this body" or "I am inside this body" or "I am the ...
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Role of IQ in attainment of stream entry
High intelligence could also be a prerequisite for fabricating endless destructive taught. So, I don't think its right to say IQ is a criterion. It's not intelligence which is needed, but virtue.
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Role of IQ in attainment of stream entry
The quote seems to be equating IQ with concentration: it says, "Normally, a person born with a high IQ, he has good concentration and that was obtained from previous lives."
I suppose that sounds ...
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Sakkāya-Ditthi and Self-View
Linguistically, 'sakkāya' ('sat-kaya') means 'true' or 'real body' rather than 'own body'. If it meant 'own body' ('sa-kaya'), this would make our study of theory much easier.
The word 'kaya' means '...
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Is there a tremendous decrease in suffering at stream-entry?
You quoted the Nakhasikha Sutta which states that suffering that remains for a person who has attained stream entry is like dirt under the fingernail, compared to suffering remaining for an ordinary ...
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Eradication of identity view is a cause or effect of stream entry?
Sakkhaya Ditti is eradicated as a result of attaining stream entry. It's wrong to say that it is required to remove the identity view before attaining stream entry. Read the detailed answer given ...
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What does "sandhāvitvā saṃsaritvā" mean in AN 9.12?
What does "sattakkhattuparama" mean literally and non-literally?
sattakkhattuparama = not more than seven times.
Why did he include rebirth into his translation?
Because of the context below ...
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Role of IQ in attainment of stream entry
Not sure about the suttas, but in Milindapanha it is said:
“What is the reason that a child under seven years of
age is unable to attain insight? For a child is pure in mind
and should be ready ...
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What are the Sutta stating Paramithä requirements to be a stream winner?
Please don't make any confusion. Only Buddha-to-be, pacceka Buddha and chief disciples of Buddha need parami to fulfill. No such need to be a stream winner. Having no huge negative karma i.e., killing ...
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What are the Sutta stating Paramithä requirements to be a stream winner?
Could you please give me the names of some sutta which I can read further on this
I think that SN 55.2 implies perfection of Sila.
People say that Dana parami is an essential beginning, for example ...
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Sakkāya-Ditthi and Self-View
My question is, if the first fetter which is self-View (sakkāya-ditthi) is dropped, then who is going to be Sakurdagami
I think that's a potentially misleading question.
"If God didn't create the ...
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How do Bodhisattva vow takers avoid stream entry?
I think that Mahayana literature teaches that becoming an Arhat is a temporary rest, for example:
Mahayanins are urged to instead take up the path of the bodhisattva and to not fall back to the ...
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Samatha Only Wisdom
There is not even a single reference in the Tipitaka, where the Buddha has said that “samatha bhavana” alone can lead to Panna/wisdom. But when one comprehends Dhamma, one’s mind get calm and through ...
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Samatha Only Wisdom
Samatha just results in the suppression of 5 Hindrances using a conceptual object as the focus. Vipassana Bhavana is the focus on the ultimate realities free from concepts, which are rupa, citta, ...
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Samatha Only Wisdom
Can one gain panna without seeing the three characteristics?
No, as far as Buddhist teaching concern.
Here Panna means the wisdom of complete liberation.
The wisdom you get from Samath is only a ...
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What are the Sutta stating Paramithä requirements to be a stream winner?
The doctrine of 'paramithä' is not found in the suttas but found in late canonical books and post-canonical commentaries (Wikipedia).
However, the basic requirement for giving (dana) & morality (...
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How to identify a sotapanna (stream enterer)
To find or identify noble people can be difficult, even impossible, because you yourself must have some idea about the True Dhamma to be able to do this. Therefore, a problem arises similar to the ...
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Role of IQ in attainment of stream entry
This is a misunderstanding of the notion of IQ. Perfectly understandable — Dhammavuddho is a buddhist monastic, not a cognitive psychologist — but worth reflecting on.
Focused attention is (perhaps) a ...
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Role of IQ in attainment of stream entry
According to AN 6.87, one of the characteristics of a person who will be able to understand and practise the teachings of the Buddha with skillful qualities, is that they are "wise, bright and ...
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Role of IQ in attainment of stream entry
The Intelligence Quotient measuring mental acuity does not apply without Emotional Intelligence and Empathy (capacity for Compassion).
https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/article/serial-killers-...
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Does the Buddha suggest a change in practice after the unfolding of Sotapanna?
No, the practitioner no need changing the practice.
The practitioner has to comprehends 3 characteristics of 5 aggregates, which cycling as the dependent origination, from being ordinary until ...
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Can someone give references of the four stages of enlightenment in the four major Nikayas?
It appears in many sutta of many nikāya.
The Example
Sutta Pitaka Vol 1 : Sutta. Tī. Sī Mahālisuttaṃ:
‘And what, Sir, may those other things be?’
‘In the first place, Mahāli, a brother by the ...
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Sakkāya-Ditthi and Self-View
Imagine you're someone who is afraid of swimming and has never swum before.
You are afraid that you would drown. You have the view that swimming will cause drowning, because someone you knew, drowned ...
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Is there a tremendous decrease in suffering at stream-entry?
In some ways this is a trick question, because the meaning of suffering in the Buddhist sense is different from the meaning of suffering in the colloquial English sense. In the Buddhist sense, ...
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How to stop singing and humming, speaking myself?
See MN 19, and MN 20
https://lucid24.org/mn/index.html
● MN 20 Vitakka-saṇṭhāna: Thought-composition
5 ways to remove unwanted thoughts: replace, see danger, forget, slow down, mind crush.
MN 20 – ...
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