Enlightenment in Theravada Buddhism
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Ashin Sarana explains the details related to Enlightenment, Nibbāna, in Theravāda Buddhism from the perspective of the Pāḷi Commentaries (Aṭṭhakatā) and the Burmese understanding of them.
Filmed by monastery workers of Sakhangyi Tawya on the 6th of February, 2020, in Thabarwa Yeikthar, Thanlyin, Myanmar. Subtitles prepared Ko Aung Thu Lin. Filming equipment was donated by venerable nun Daw Ayukalyani.
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This is the most concise and helpful treatment on the path to enlightenment that I’ve come across on youtube. Thank you. 🙏🙏🙏
As a theravada buddhist myself, this is such an amazing explanation in english to describe processs of attainment.
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Much respect for Bhante!
Thank you. Very comprehensive. Sadhu!
The explanation of memory was truly insightful, I always had this doubt. "We are just recreating the past based on conditions which we created in the past". Not remembering, but rather, recreating. Thank you!
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This was fairly brilliant. Resonates with my thinking.
Thank you Venerable Sarana for wonderful wisdom Dhamma talk. May you be blessed by Triple Gems. Sadhu. Sadhu. Sadhu 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you for the videos!
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我是名中国人，希望可以看到尊者的更多有字幕的视频，谢谢
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Only 5000 views. This are the dark ages. The highest goal is not interesting for humans...
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Entering magga phalla(disconnections of samsara existence) and emerge from magga phalla.
The moment when it occure:
My personnel experience while in vipasanna sitting meditation this occur and I will share to those who may find interesting.
Vipasanna meditation on the
moment of magga phalla and then return to samsara existence again on how it occur during that moment.
From Samsara to magga phalla to samsara.
16 Vipasanna nanas or 16 mindfullness knowledge aroused while contemplating the breath explaination made simple.
Nibanna is like walking up 16 stairs step to reach the top floor.
One will start from the first stairs. Lifting the right foot stepping on the first stairs letting go of the left foot from the ground to let it step on the second staircase. Upon the second foot secure stepping on the second staircase one has to LET GO of the first staircase to use the right foot to step on the 3rd staircase until one reach the 16th stairs.
Similar like from first samadhi to second samadhi to third samadhi to upeka.
Similarly the practice of vipasanna apply the same way as like walking up the stairs till step 16th(16 vipasanna nanas)
Upon reaching the top floor one can now take good rest in his room.
One will have to return to the ground floor, the first step to begin now will be the last stair which is the 16th stairs. The way to decent is from the 16 to 15 to 14 stairs and so on.
Similarly when one attaiment
of magga(fruition) it is like one already on the highest step.
After magga(path simile of the 16th stairs) it will reach phala(fruition simile as reaching the top floor) one is an enlighten being.
Usual occurance after magga phalla, one will have to return to presant samsara conditions and that means like walking down the stair case start from the 16 steps to lower stairs.
Similarly one who practice vipasanna and reach the highest path will need to return from the path back to this samsara existence.
In this case he has to return from the magga phalla to continue to live in samsara until his balance karma energy are exhausted.
So to say, one can realize very clearly these steps to magga phalla where the mind shuts down and he know when he is stepping down (start from the 16th) to return to mundane existence is similar to the simile of the 16 staircase walking up and walking down again.
So one can know in this way one is a sotopana after nirodha(Ceesation of conciousness) reaching magga phalla(mind now completely shuts down while in vipasanna sitting meditation) and nibanna(is not a state of mind. It is out of human conciousness nothing in relation to mind and body and the buddha explain it in this way that nibanna simply is unborn, deathless and uncondition)
No sufferring exist in NIBANNA.
CONCLUSION:
The 16 stairs we refer to the 16 vipasanna nanas:
And after attainment when the mind shuts down you enter into nibanna(you will not know as you are momentarily already cut off your existence from Samsara)
Now you are in nibanna(as conciousness already vanished at magga you do not know as already no existence conciousness)
When after nibanna, you return to reawaken in this dream of existence in samsara and in the state of vipasanna samadhi, and here at this moment you still do not know you have return from nibanna to samsara dreams of existence as you are dwelling in strong state of samadhi where your mind now is filled with whole body pleasurable vibrating sensations and you are fully adsorption into it.
This whole body pleasure sensation will gradually subside and you will now be in lower samadhi where your mind is bright(still in the mind state of samadhi) mind is free and relaxing no problems with regards to keep focusing on the breath as now what so ever on breath to watch rising falling all seem automatic.(in samadhi or in jhanna absobtion filled with whole body pleasurable sensations)
At this moment the mind is free bright and peaceful just like driving with(in samadhi)
Then suddenly there is occurance of recollection when one start to remember.
One begin to remember there was a break in his sitting vipasanna meditation where the mind are suddenly shuts down.
Here is very important and the most difficult to explain because this is the moment of the last truth of the 4 noble truth one has reach and now realised its taste.
My attempt to explain it will be like telling a story that ends with possibily nobody will understand it.
But that is the real story of the moment of reaching magga and phalla.
When the moment the mind enter path or magga is 14th vipasanna nana and phalla 15 vipasanna nana it shuts down.
No more existing in samsara existence so no more mind and thinking are stop. No thinking thus there no more mind.
After that occurance is over, one will return from the top stair to walk down again from my simplified explaination on how one will see at that moment.
He saw before and after and he remember it now as in his mind everythings is very clear. He now realise he has reach enlightment or he has attain to magga phala and the mind is now peaceful, happy and bright.
The happiness feeling of that attainment can last numerous days.And all dhamma now aroused in one who is Ariya. He is now a SOTOPANNA.
May this sharing be the road map for everyone and as the ariya of the past phrase it in this way they say 'WORTH IT'
Wish everyone will strive one digently. Vipasanna the sure way leading to nibanna.
The BUDDHA say this is the only way and no other way. And he say 'AHEPASIKO'
Come friends and experience it yourself and you will know like I have known.
And the last advise of LORD BUDDHA..... APAMADE SAMPADETA
meaning
Behold, O monks, this is my last advice to you. All component things in the world are changeable. They are not lasting. Work hard to gain your own salvation."
Apamadesampadeta.
BUDDHAM SARANAM GACCHAMI.
NamuBuddhaya. I'm Nichiren student from Indonesia. Your compassion is truly boundless & immeasurable. I'm deeply grateful for your effort writing all this. m(_ _)m 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Namyohorengekyo.
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Out of compassion I will be bold to write this article before life expired.
The Buddha hold no secrets in his teachings and tells only the ultimate truth.
As this is the case, I too will hold no secrets from the truth of how one experience the moment of magga palla
derived from following the LORD BUDDHA meditation instruction in today known as vipasanna meditation.
A gift to all vipasanna meditators from a sotopanna.
Our mission while sitting in meditation,Vipasanna meditation.
When we become fluent in vipasanna meditation, we begin to realise the state of mind we are in. It is very important to know that state of conciousness so as to progress further.
One must differnciate it clearly or how then one is going to progress without knowing.
The path of vipasanna meditation is to calm the mind to the state buddhist call it samadhi which are vitaka (initial entry to first stage of calmness) that lead to vichara(sustaining of the first state of calmness)
This initial state of calm is known as 1st samadhi.
Upon one ability to hang on to this first samadhi, the mental progress will continue to develop further reaching the state of piti which is the second state of calmness. Usual meditator experience it say he feel like, floating, lightness, tear flowing and mind is calm without much problem to watch the breath.
Then as one can maintain this state of mind with ongoing inbreath and out breath, one will reach the 3rd samadhi calmness of mind that spell bodily pleasure more stronger then before when in 2nd samadhi. Some meditators begin to feel very happy, some see bright light, some see mind sparking, some see shadow passing. These are strong concentration that bring about nimita from the mind that appear to be real but the meditator must not attached to it but continue to be mindful, free from attachment and to be calm. After this moment occur and if the meditator mind is strong are not disturb, distract, non attached, no delusion, non greed on this occurance, the meditator will be continue to progress to realize and aware that the breath become softer, subtle, disappear and nobody sensation feeling aslo disappear and here it is UPEKA.At this upeaka the mind are perfectly calm,
Very important state of mind to reach as one is like being in the moment of emptiness, nothingness, space
Thinking still exist during this experience.
Here very important not to get lost, gets excite, gets deluded and too many on going thinking will take you out of this upeka.
So during this monent stay calm as you can see there is thinking on going but do not let thinking become master or you will be kick out of upeka.
Stay calm stop thinking and be with the condition.
During this moment while you are staying calm in upeka your mind or i shall say you 5 mental faculties are in behind making adjustment and trying to be balance to be upeka and if successful if it is auto able to gets balance(meaning greed, hatred, delusions are removed as that 5 faculties are capable to become balance or become neutral,
when that happen, your mind will shuts down and you enter the streams of ariya.
This is what happens when the mind shuts down during attainment. Firstly you do not know when the shuts down when it occur while you are watching inbreath and outbreath.
You want to know why?
During vipasanna meditation you are constantly detach to everythings but only what you know is constantly matching with your inbreath and outbreath. In this way you will be successful in deterring all thinking to arise and thus all greed, hatred and delusions will comes to decay or destroyed. When this happen the phenomenor of this existence is terminated. This is why when your mind shuts down during vipasanna meditation that shuts down moment of your conciousness you can never know. In brief, your link to this samsara existence is disconnected. You are not existing in this avijja sanhkhara anymore.
Can you follow and understand now?
So when ceesation of concious occur during vipasanna meditation, it occure only when the mind is free from greed, hatred and delusions which is the effect of detachment of the 5 aggregates or 5 khandas that destroy avijja.
Now you can understand?
That moment of destroying avijja you will experience you vipasanna meditation which is your mind will shuts down meaning you stop to exist in avijja sankhara.How can you know when you are not existing in this world that is exactly what happen when I say your conciousness shuts down. The 4 noble truth tell you very clearly that the last truth is sufferring ENDS.
Let us recap the 4 noble truth:
First noble truth is BIRTH IS DUKKHA.
Second noble truth is THE CAUSE OF DUKKHA
Third noble truth is THE WAYS LEADING TO THE ENDING OF DUKKHA.
The fourth noble truth DUKKHA ENDS.
So you can now understand better the fourth noble truth are in parallel with the practice of vipasanna that one will come to the end of sufferring where conciousness ceesation similarly to say conciousness shuts down. In that moment you understand nibanna clearly.
And i will explain how one after ceesation of concious how one return to re-exist again in samsara to finish exhausting the balance karma until it is timely exhausted one become fully liberated as Arahat.
After the first time ceesation of conciousness or shuts down of mind, you are now no more a putujana or wording but is now Ariya.
You have enter the streams of Ariya.
Sadhu sadhu sadhu
This article is written out of compassion for one who seek the path so difficult indeed and this article is carefully written from the path that was reached as a gift to all vipasanna practioner from a sotopana.
I will explain more of the moment one attain magga palla and how one return to samsara to continue to live in samsara till the balance karma are use up.
For time being I hope this explaination is good enough for you to know the moment of Enlightment to be known when you experience it.
Suki hotu.
BUDDHAM SARANAM GACCHAMI
Is this the entering to sotapnna pala?pl refer to Ana pana sanutta .I think you are explaning of 4th jahana but that is not a ariya samadi .
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Body, feeling, perception, mental formation, conciousness are not self. At magga palla when ceesation of conciousness occur, the mind die momentarily letting one sees clearly the 4 noble truth of the mind and body are only existence in the dreams in samsara.
BUDDHAM SARANAM GACCHAMI
The moment how one experience nibanna. A gift to all vipasanna practioner from one who is an Ariya who has experience nibanna the 14th and 15 vipasanna nana.
Now you can know if you have reach this moment magga palla.
Answer to a meditation students as regards to weather she has reach Anuloma Nana the 12 vipasanna nana.
No you have not reach that state of mind yet.
You have first to reach sankhara upeka the 11 vipasanna where the mind is free from hindrance. Concentration of inbreath and out breath is easy mind is clear and no disturbance.
Rising and falling is automatic. You may fall from that state if your mindfulness is not well developed and will be going up and down in these lower nana. Only when your mindfullness are fully developed, only then your will past sankhara upeka to magga and palla. Skipping anuloma and Gotrabu.
Elaboration of anuloma and gotrabu:
After that state anuloma Nana or knowledge of adaptation the 12 vipasanna nana(is like auditor behind sankara upeka giving mark to it to see if you are qualified to pass the vipasanna exam. Then at Gotrabu nana or change of linage it is the issuing of the certificate of qualification that you are qualified to enter nibanna the moment occure of one linage change from putujana(worldling) to magga nana(ariya or enlighten being) entering path (here your conciousness shuts down) and when at phala nana attaiment or fruition one is now an Ariya.
When you are phala, you are back to samsara existence but your mental status is in very strong samadhi accompany by whole body pleasurable feeling unexplainable pleasure every part of your body are filled with pleasure. These pleasure feeling will gradually subside and until such moment you begin to be able to recollect (knowledge of previewing or knowledge of recollection) the moment of magga(you recollect that moment when your mind are shut down) and you glimpse and understand nibanna at that moment
and when you re-awaken at palla accompany by whole body pleasurable feelings that is the time when you have re-enter into samsara dreams of existence.
You now realise clearly that you have finally reach that nibanna moment where it is not connected to mundane conciousness and has nothing in relation to our samsara existence this mind and body.
The 4 noble truth are finally fully understood by the one who tasted it.
As the Lord Buddha challenge all of us to come and experience it yourself and you will know.
So glad that I have taken up the Lord Buddha challenge and I have experience it finally.Hope everyone reading this can experience it too. Conciousness Ceesation for 1st time during vipasanna meditation is a Sotopanna, 2nd times conciousness ceesation is Sakadagami, 3rd times ceesation Anagami, 4th times ceesation Arahat.
Ceesation can simultaneously occurs 4 times seemingly like one time for ARAHAT.
One will not miss this nibanna attainment firstly it is clearly has nothing connected to this human conciousness and secondly upon palla one return from nibanna are sure to be in very strong samadhi.
It will be impossible to return to samsara after attainment to be like normal self.
Here is a simile :suppose you walk up the a 16 stair from stair number 1,upon reach the last step you enter a room, and now you want to go back down, you will now have to start from the 16 stair to 15 to 14 etc.
The same things will be experience when you enter magga and palla and return to samsara to continue living out your balance samsara karma existence.
Suki hotu.
BUDDHAM SARANAM GACCHAMI.
“So, when the yogi observes the body as it really is, without adding any imagination, perception, idea, or illusion, they may see how the body is repulsive.” I’m not understanding this. Repulsive sounds a lot like aversion, like you’re bringing a perception to the body. How are repulsion and aversion different?
Well what real proof is there of a life after this one?
@@user-lx1fi1rp6k I agree that there must be causes, but why would those causes be karma? People are born rich or poor because they had rich or poor parents. Why is there necessarily more to it than that?
Cita buried all the delusions so cita must be destroy. As cita was never born. When it is born cita bring with it all the danger hidden inside it.
So when practice vipasanna until the the cita also are destroy or decay it because it is the carrier of birth(avijja)
That is why many do not realise ceesation of conciousness or ceesation of mind is the ultimate goal and that is nibanna which is uncondition and do not require any conciousness. For jhanna adsobtion is not the goal as jhanna is a state of mind with conditions and has conciousness.
The 4 noble truth explain very clearly. The 3rd noble truth say THE WAY LEADING TO THE CEESATION OF SUFFERRINGS and LAST NOBLE TRUTH IS ENDS OF SUFFERRINGS.
So when one attain to the path and fruition understand that samsara mind decay at magga palla and nibanna has nothing to do with anything in this world. So that is why Buddha explain nibanna as unborn. So if unborn then there is nothing to talk about conciousness and body.
Nibanna is uncondition. It is not a state of mind. Nothing to say that it is happiness of any kinds.It is out of human interllecture and knowledge and truely it is deathless and non sufferrings.
Suki hotu.
BUDDHAM SARANAM GACCHAMI
Why Arahant can't lives like a normal human being, why he need to transform into a monk from protecting of death ??
@@Rainasuan2023 thank you, so what about woman Arahant because nowadays it is no longer to be a female monk
Suppose one is now arahat and suppose he live like lay person it will be impossible. Harm may befall many lay people. People will scold him not knowing he is Arahat and thus carry very bad karma. This is one crude example so hope now you have some idea.Hope this help one to understand about Arahat not living a layman life.
Todo lo aquí explicado, solamente lo entiende el que ha recorrido ese camino, el que no lo ha recorrido; no entiende.
Menos palabrería y más silencio. No me teorices sobre un tema, simplemente hazlo.
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