"One becomes a Stream-enterer (Sotāpanna), Once-returner (Sakadāgāmi), Non-returner (Anāgāmi), and Arahant only through understanding the Four Noble Truths. Without understanding them, can one become a Stream-enterer? Without becoming a Stream-enterer, can one become an Arahant? #One_must_start_with_Stream-entry.
Not knowing the Four Noble Truths is (Ignorance, Venerable Sir)
Not knowing the Five Aggregates is (Ignorance, Venerable Sir)
Wrongly perceiving the Five Aggregates as beings is (Ignorance, Venerable Sir)
What wants when there's wrong perception? (Craving, Venerable Sir)
What clings saying 'must have it'? (Clinging, Venerable Sir)
These three - ignorance, craving, and clinging - what Truth do they form? (The Truth of Origin, Venerable Sir)
#Is_Origin_Truth a person? A deva? A brahma? Children? Isn't this worth investigating?
When Origin Truth is known, is it self that knows or the Path Truth? The Path Truth knows.
#Where_there_is_Origin_as_cause, don't the resultant aggregates arise? Are these arising phenomena beings or Five Aggregates? Is this spontaneous or caused? The cause is Origin, isn't it? Isn't the result taught as Suffering?
Does anyone who gets aggregates escape aging, sickness, death? What Truth is this? (Suffering Truth, Venerable Sir)
When knowing them as aggregates, don't views of beings fall away? Are all five aggregates permanent or impermanent? Is impermanence happiness or suffering?
Isn't knowing suffering as suffering called Right View? Wrongly perceiving worldly happiness is Wrong View. #When_truth_is_known_doesn't_wrong_view_disappear?
Doesn't ignorance cease? Does craving come? Does clinging come? Does kamma come? Don't the three types of Dependent Origination break?
When craving-dependent origination, clinging-dependent origination, and kamma-dependent origination break, don't the aggregates end? #Isn't_this_called_Cessation_Truth?
#Wrong_is_Origin_and_Suffering
#Right_is_Path_and_Cessation
Strive to reach this state..."
Sadhu! Together let us keep the Dharma wheel rolling.
Anekajātisaṃsāraṃ sandhāvissaṃ anibbisaṃ gahakāraṃ gavesanto dukkhā jāti punappunaṃ Gahakāraka diṭṭho'si puna gehaṃ na kāhasi sabbā te phāsukā bhaggā gahakūṭaṃ visaṅkhataṃ visaṅkhāragataṃ cittaṃ taṇhānaṃ khayamajjhagā (The Dhammapada, verses 153-154)
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vandāmi cetiyaṃ sabbaṃ, sabbaṭṭhānesu patiṭṭhitaṃ. Ye ca dantā atītā ca, ye ca dantā anāgatā, paccuppannā ca ye dantā, sabbe vandāmi te ahaṃ.