Friends:
Entering the Noble Stream Leading to Nibbâna:
At Savatthi the Buddha said: Bhikkhus, the eyes are impermanent,
changing, becoming otherwise. All form is impermanent, changing,
& becoming otherwise. The ear & all sound, the nose & all smell,
the tongue & all taste, the body & all touch, the mind & all ideas
are impermanent, transient, changing, and becoming otherwise...
One who accepts these teachings by understanding, after having
examined them by careful reflection, is called a Dhamma-follower!
One who decides to place confidence in these teachings, is called
a Faith-follower! Both such persons have entered the fixed track
of correctness, entered a plane of superior being, & transcended
the level of ordinary worldling. Such beings cannot do any action
later resulting in rebirth in hell, or as animal, or as hungry ghost!!!
Such Nobles are incapable of dying without first having enjoyed
the fruit of stream-entry. Knowing & seeing these teachings thus,
one is called a Stream-Enterer, saved from lower worlds, fixed in
destiny, with enlightenment as destination within 7 lives at most...!!!
Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya 25(1) III 225
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html
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Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
Friendship is the Greatest ...
Let there be Calm Free Bliss !!!
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